Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. (Family: Fabaceae) is a traditional herb, contain latinone and dalcriodain flavonoid having excellence medicinal value. Antioxidants play an important role for protecting the human body against damage by reactive free radicals. Methods: The antioxidant activities and phenolic contents of the ethanolic extract of the bark of Dalbergia latifolia was evaluated using in vi...

Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen is a medium-sized evergreen tree that produces purple-brown heartwood called JiangXiang in traditional Chinese medicine, the formation process of which takes several decades. In this study, a standard culture method was used to isolate fungi from the wounded and normal stems of D. odorifera aiming to investigate the difference between the two types of wood. To charac...

The results of analysis of soil and tree leaves samples collected from heavy traffic affected area of Agra city show that average concentration of Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, Mn and Zn ranged from 0.953.42, 3.2811.26, 2.18-4.05, 3.04-8.10, 0.91-1.42 and 2.83-5.94 ppm , respectively in soil samples. The maximum concentration of Ni (2.68ppm) and Co (4.82 ppm) was observed in the leaves of Ficus religiosa and...

Phytohemical investigation on the heartwood of Dalbergia odorifera resulted in the isolation of nine flavonoids. Their structures were elucidated as sativanone (1), (3R)-vestitone (2), (3R)-2',3',7-trihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavanone (3), (3R)-4'-methoxy-2',3,7-trihydroxyisoflavanone (4), carthamidin (5), liquiritigenin (6), isoliquiritigenin (7), (3R)-vestitol (8), and sulfuretin (9) based on th...

Introduction Dalbergia (Fabaceae) has a wide distribution, it is native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen, a semi-deciduous arbor, is indigenous to Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces of China. Its timber is high-grade material for furniture and crafts, and the essential oil of heartwood can be precious pe...

Ulcer is a common problem associated with NSAID’s use. The use of plants to treat and cure diseases is common practice since ancient times because of people blind faith on safety of plant’s use. The present study aimed to evaluate anti-ulcer activity of Dalbergia sissoo in alcohol and aspirin induced ulcerative rat models. Animals were divided into four groups. Group I was disease control, grou...

Objective: Plants of the genus Dalbergia are reported to be useful in the treatment of arthritis, gonorrhoea and rheumatic pains. Present study was aimed to investigate the in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of ethanol extract from Dalbergia sissoo leaves (EDS) and to support its traditional use. Methods: EDS was investigated for it's in vitro anti-inflammatory activity in human red blood cell...

Dalbergia oliveri is a leguminous tree of the Fabaceae family. This species is popular and valuable in Vietnam and is currently listed on the Vietnam Red List and on the IUCN Red List as endangered. Two PCR techniques using RAPD and inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers were used to make a comparative analysis of genetic diversity in this species. Fifty-six polymorphic primers (29 R...

The marine snail Littorina saxatilis exhibits extreme morphological variation between and within geographical regions and represents an excellent model for assessing local adaptation. Previous studies support the hypothesis of parallel evolution in sympatry of two morphologically different ecotypes (named as RB and SU) that co-inhabit different habitats from Galician rocky shores (NW Spain), an...

Alien predators have on average twice the impact on native prey populations than do native predators, and are a severe threat to wildlife globally. Manipulation experiments can be used to quantify the impact of an alien predator on its prey population/s, but unless the results are compared to benchmarks, it is unclear whether this impact is indeed greater than that of a native predator. Here we...