Argyrolobium roseum Cambers Jaub & Spauch; Papilionaceae, is a sexually reproducing, rare, annual herb that grows in tropical and sub-temperate tracts of the north-western Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent; it has neither been documented for treating diabetes mellitus nor any other biological activity is attributed to this herb. Its ethanolic extract (KA-030) exhibited antihyperglycem...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of 6 common soil fungi species: Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissl., Aspergillus candidus Link, Penicillium chrysogenum Thom, P. commune Thom, Trichothecium roseum (Pers.) Link and Ulocladium sp., on the hatching of miracidia, i.e., free living larvae of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica). To this end, the eggs of F. hepatica were incubated in water...

The dinoflagellates Chytriodinium affine, C. roseum and Dissodinium pseudolunula are ectoparasites of crustacean eggs. Here, we present new observations regarding their life cycle based on coastal plankton samples and incubations and analyze their molecular phylogeny using the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (SSU rDNA) as a marker. In contrast to the typical stages already documented for its l...

Okra was grown in field plots of Tifton loamy sand naturally infested with the nematodes Meloidogyne incognita and Criconemoides ornalus and the pathogenic fungi Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani, F. roseum, and Pythium spp. Plots were treated with various soil pesticides and left exposed or covered with biodegradable paper film mulch under trickle irrigation. Soil was assayed for nematodes and fun...

Native endophytic actinomycetes isolated from pearl millet roots were examined for their efficacy to protect pearl millet against downy mildew. Nineteen of 39 isolates were found to be proteolytic, of which 7 strains could directly suppress the sporangium formation of Sclerospora graminicola, the pearl millet downy mildew pathogen. Thus, mycelial suspensions containing either spores or cell-fre...

The biotransformation of 13α,17-dihydroxystemodane (3) with the fungus Cephalosporium aphidicola afforded 13α,17,18-trihydroxystemodane (4), 3β,13α,17-tri-hydroxystemodane (5), 13α,17-dihydroxy-stemodan-18-oic acid (6), 3β,11β,13α,17-tetra-hydroxystemodane (7), 11β,13α,17,18-tetrahydroxystemodane (8) and 3β,13α,17,18-tetra-hydroxystemodane (9). The hydroxylation at C-18 of the substrate points ...

Chromosome numbers of one species Eranthemum (E. macrophyllum Wall. ex Nees) and five Strobilanthes [S. affinis (Griff.) Terao J. R. I. Wood et Benett., S. biocullata Y. F. Deng & Wood, dimorphotricha Hance, heteroclita D. Fang H. Lo pseudocollina K. He Qin] in the family Acanthaceae from China have been reported for first time. The chromosome were determined as 2n=4x=44 E. macrophyllum, 2n=2x=...