Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, environmental pollution has become a significant concern in developing countries; therefore, the main objective of the current study is to determine some of the heavy metal (HM) concentrations in the leaves of dusty miller (Cineraria maritima) and purstane (Mesembryanthemum cordifolium) in different general bus terminal along with the green space...

Reconstruction of highly efficient biosynthesis pathways is essential for the production of valuable plant secondary metabolites in recombinant microorganisms. In order to improve the titer of green tea catechins in Escherichia coli, combinatorial strategies were employed using the ePathBrick vectors to express the committed catechin pathway: flavanone 3β-hydroxylase (F3H), dihydroflavonol 4-re...

-In 1996, the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center (PMC) released three locally collected, source identified wetland plants. Indian Bayou source powdery thalia (Thalia dealbata Fraser ex Roscoe) and Leflore source creeping burhead [Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb.] were collected in the Mississippi Delta and Leaf River source woolgrass [...

Karyotype, host preference, isozyzme patterns, morphometrics, and mating behavior of two burrowing nematode populations from Hawaii, one infecting Anthurium sp. and the second infecting Musa sp., were compared with Radopholus similis and R. citrophilus populations from Florida. The population from Anthurium sp. had five chromosomes (n = 5), and that from Musa sp. had four (n = 4). Neither of th...

Several antibiotic compounds have been isolated from green plants. Those which have been structurally identified, are citrinin (l-4), dicumarol (5-7), and protoanemonin (8, 9). Other less well defined factors are an oil from AZZium sativum (lo-12), a colorless crystalline compound from Arci&rz minus (13), Products A and B from Asarum cunadense (14), cassic acid from the leaves of Custiu reticdu...

BACKGROUND Wild vegetables in the Mediterranean Basin are still often consumed as a part of the diet and, in particular, there is a great tradition regarding their use in Sicily. In this study, an ethnobotanical field investigation was carried out to (a) identify the wild native taxa traditionally gathered and consumed as vegetables in Sicily, comparing the collected ethnobotanical data with th...

BOTANY Ageratum is derived from the Greek “a geras,” meaning non-aging, referring to the longevity of the flowers or the whole plant. The specific epithet “conyzoides” is derived from “kónyz,” the Greek name of Inula helenium, which it resembles (Kissmann and Groth 1993). The synonyms of A. conyzoides include A. album Stend; A. caeruleum Hort. ex. Poir.; A. coeruleum Desf.; A. cordifolium Roxb....