Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center and Center for Genetic Medicine, 420 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Cor...

Objective: Eucalyptus (Fam. Myrtaceae) is a medicinal plant and various Eucalyptus species possess potent pharmacological actions against diabetes, hepatotoxicity, and inflammation. This study aims to investigate essential oil compositionfrom leaves and flowers of E. microthecaand E. viminalisleavesgrowing in the Southeast of Iran. Materials and Methods: The aerial parts of these plants were co...

Figure 1. Aspects of Marchantia biology. (A) Vegetative haploid life form (thallus) in laboratory culture. (B) Female reproductive organs (archegoniophores) in the shape of palm trees growing from the haploid thallus of a female plant. (C) Male reproductive organs (antheridiophores) in the shape of umbrellas growing from the haploid thallus of a male plant. (D) Scanning electron micrograph of t...

Echium amoenum Fisch. and C.A. Mey. (Boraginaceae) is a very popular medicinal plant which is used as a tonic, tranquillizer, diaphoretic, cough remedy, sore throat and pneumonia in Iran’s traditional medicine. Callus culture of medicinal plants is one of the ways for production of secondary metabolites. In this study, callus culture of E. amoenum and its major secondary metabolite were investi...

Infectious diseases are responsible for thousands of worldwide early death .Many commercial antibiotics have been used to control human's infectious diseases all over the world. Calotropis procera Linn a wild growing plant of Asclepiadaecae family is known to possess multifarious medicinal properties. Total 80 non repetitive clinical E. coli strains recovered during 7 month, a...

Cultivated Elionurus muticus (Spreng.) Kunth (Gramineae) plant parts were steam distilled for essential oil and evaluated in-vitro for antifungal activity against Candida albicans, C. krusei and Cryptococcus neoformans using agar broth dilution and disc diffusion methods and the activity compared with commercial citral and Cymbopogon citratus DC (Stapf) (lemongrass) oils by measuring the growth...

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a Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, Estaciön Experimental del Zaidfn, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientfficas (C.S.I.C.), E-18008 Granada, Spain. Fax: +34-58-129600. E.mail: [email protected] b Department of Plant Biology, Centro Investigaciones Biolögicas, C. S. I.C, E-28006 Madrid, Spain. c Department of Plant Physiology, University of Horticulture and...