Marine plants are known to produce a large number of structurally diverse secondary metabolites. They are found to be economically important in the field of food additives, nutraceutical and drugs. Seagrasses are a paraphyletic group of marine hydrophilus angiosperms, which evolved three to four times from land plants back to the sea. It lives in an estuarine or in the marine environment, and n...

Atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, nuclear accidents, and emissions from reprocessing plants have changed the natural abundances of I (T1/2=15.7 Ma) in a sustainable manner. Mainly as a consequence of the I releases from the European reprocessing plants, I is in disequilibrium in all environmental compartments of the Western Europe. Surface water from the North Sea and the English Channel, whic...

The results of a field study carried out in August and September 1988, in the northern Peruvian Andes are described. The area of investigation extends from Ayabaca City (about 2900m above sea level) to Haughtiness Lagunas (about 3800m above sea level) in the Ayabaca District, Department of Piura. This is the first time that this location has been the subject of an ethnobotanical investigation. ...

A scheme is proposed to desalinate sea water using solar energy for the Thar Desert of India. The scheme has been using solar energy for the Thar Desert of India. The scheme has been designed to produce about 5.25 x 10 m/yr (13860 MG/yr) of fresh water with 11.52 km (4.5 miles) of collector area. The solar collectors are rectangular concrete tubes, half buried in the ground, through which sea w...

Yarrow (Achillea spp.) belonging to the family of Asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, Carminative and anti-oxidant effects. The present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of Achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from Damavand mountain of Iran. The samples were collected ...

Yarrow (Achillea spp.) belonging to the family of Asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, Carminative and anti-oxidant effects. The present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of Achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from Damavand mountain of Iran. The samples were collected ...

four species of flea beetles (col.: chrysomelidae, alticinae), viz. altica tsharynensis (ogloblin), aphthona pygmaea (kutschera), longitarsus pulmonariae weise and neocrepidodera interpunctata (motschulsky), collected from the south of caspian sea are newly recorded from iran. host plants, localities and diagnostic characters of each species are given.

The comparative effects of different concentrations of saline soil and saline irrigation water were investigated on growth of canola (cv. Ganyou-5). Plants were subjected to control (non-saline), 0.2% (EC 2.5 dS.m-1), 0.4% (EC 4.5 dS.m-1) and 0.6% (EC 6.5 dS.m-1) of sea salt concentrations in soil as well as saline irrigation water. Vegetative growth parameters recorded were plant height, numbe...

The species Beta vulgaris encompasses wild and cultivated members with a broad range of phenological development. The annual life cycle is commonly found in sea beets (ssp. maritima) from Mediterranean environments which germinate, bolt, and flower within one season under long day conditions. Biennials such as the cultivated sugar beet (B. vulgaris ssp. vulgaris) as well as sea beets from north...

Livestock are facing various life threatening hazards notably infectious (parasitic, bacterial, viral, protozoal, fungal) and noninfectious like metabolic diseases, poisoning and other miscellaneous origin. Ethiopian people especially farmers and traditional animal healers have been using traditional methods to treat both human and their livestock diseases for generations. Traditional medicine ...