Horticultural crops undergo various physiological and biochemical changes that lead to undesirable disorders, decay subsequent economic losses during storage. Quality degradation of horticultural is mainly caused by postharvest pathogens such as Botrytis cinerea Penicillium spp., etc. The application synthetic fungicides remains the most effective method control pathogens. However, their use be...

Background & Aim: The aim of this study was to document the medicinal uses of plants in the central district of Zanjan county. Experimental: In the frequent field trips, plants species were collected, and their ethnopharmacological importance were reported by personal visits to a total of 32 informants. Results& Discussion:<...

Medicinal plants are very beneficial for the health of Indonesian people. Preservation medicinal can be done in yard house so that it said as a family plant. Most people know knowledge benefits from their ancestral heritage. Pasar VI Kualanamau Village is one villages Beringin District, Deli Serdang Regency, where community still uses and grows yards. Therefore, purpose this study was to determ...

BACKGROUND The present paper is a brief survey on the ethnobotanical works published by the Authors since 1981, concerning the research carried out in some southern and central Italian regions. Before Roman domination these territories were first inhabited by local people, while the southern areas were colonized by the Greeks. These different cultural contributions left certain traces, both in ...

Herbal medicines involve the integration of several therapeutic experiences and practices of indigenous systems of medicine that may span many previous generations, which often provides valuable guidelines to the selection, preparation and application of herbal formulation for the treatment, control and management of variety of ailments. According to World Health Organization, 60% of the world’...

Sacred groves are one of the most valuable, but primitive practices of nature conservation. These are the relict climax communities preserved by the local people for certain beliefs. Such forests are rich in biological diversity and harbor many endangered plant species including rare herbs and medicinal plants. Case studies on sacred groves show that these small forest patches play an important...

The Umari Dham is a sacred grove situated at the Jamwa Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Jaipur District of Rajasthan, India. It’s beautiful arbour near city Jaipur. has temple, which been visited by worshippers for approximately 450 years. During present field investigation, attempts were made to categorize floral diversity this grove, and around 215 flowering plant species belonging 159 genera unde...

Use of plants as medicine has been practiced all over the world since the dawn of human civilisation. In the Himalayas, many medicinal plants yield essential ecosystem services/ benefi ts for the subsistence farmers, many of which grow in the forest ecosystem. However, documentation of traditional medicine and medicinal plants used by local communities is rather poor in Nepal. Panchase forest, ...

BACKGROUND Traditional knowledge about the use of medicinal plants for herbal drinks (HDs) is not well documented in the Azad Kashmir region despite their widespread use. This study highlights the taxonomic diversity and traditional knowledge on medicinal plants used for HDs while examining the diversity of diseases treated with HDs in the study area. METHODS Individual discussions were condu...