Furanocoumarins are phytoalexins often cited as an example to illustrate the arms race between plants and herbivorous insects. They distributed in a limited number of phylogenetically distant plant lineages, but synthesized through similar pathway, which raised question unique or multiple emergence higher plants. The furanocoumarin pathway was investigated fig tree (Ficus carica, Moraceae). Tra...

Background and objectives: Heracleum persicum (Golpar)is a native medicinal plant of Iran which belongs to Apiaceae family. The fruits of the plant have been used as spice for flavoring. They have also showed carminative, antioxidant, anticonvulsant, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and cytotoxic properties. In this study, toxicity of different fractions ...