BACKGROUND Many medicinal plants from Leguminosae family can be found easily in Malaysia. These plants have been used as traditional medicines by local ethnic groups, where they are prepared as decoction, pastes for wound infections, and some have been eaten as salad. This paper focused on the assessment of antioxidant potential, antibacterial activity and classes of phytochemicals of nine plan...

Turgor-mediated leaf movements of the legume Samanea saman are associated with the migration of K(+) and Cl(-) between opposing sides of the motor organs (pulvini). We have investigated the pathway of this ion migration by localizing K(+) and Cl(-) within the secondary pulvinus at various times during leaf movements. Ion distributions in freeze-dried cryosections of pulvini were determined by s...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Mostafa Ammar for his enduring patience, guidance, encouragement and support, and my other thesis committee members Prof. Ellen Zegura, Prof. valuable time and advice; my colleagues and lab mates for their support and kind wishes, especially Saman-whom I have had the pleasure and honor of working with; past and present members of the Colle...

Decades of deforestation and unsustainable land use have created large expanses of degraded lands across Central America. Reforestation may offer one means of mitigating these processes of degradation while sustaining resident human communities. However, a lack of information regarding tree species performance has been identified as an important limitation on the success and adoption of diversi...

Effectiveness of Rain Tree Leaf Extract (Samanea Saman (Jacq.) Merr) to Inhibit the Growth Fungus Colletotrichum sp. Cause Anthracnose Disease on Papaya (Carica papaya). Due its high nutritional value and economic value, papaya is a local fruit that in great demand community. The production fluctuates due number factors, one which fungus sp., causes anthracnose disease fruit. In most cases, syn...