BACKGROUND This aim of this study is to report upon traditional knowledge and use of wild medicinal plants by the Highlanders of Lukomir, Bjelašnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The Highlanders are an indigenous community of approximately 60 transhumant pastoralist families who speak Bosnian (Bosanski) and inhabit a highly biodiverse region of Europe. This paper adds to the growing record of ...

This paper presents new data on the occurrence of 16 vascular plant species from five Eurasian countries obtained during field explorations, as well taxonomic revisions herbarium materials. Five taxa (<i>Draba fladnizensis</i>, <i>Gentiana orbicularis</i>, <i>Helianthus giganteus</i>, <i>Symphyotrichum cordifolium</i>, <i>Thalictrum alpinum&...

The silicon can induce beneficial changes in plants, such as the further development of tissues and increased photosynthetic rate. Thus, studies on the anatomical changes resulting from in vitro culture are key to better understanding the development of micropropagated plants. Therefore, this study was undertaken to evaluate the morphological and physiological differences in plants with the use...

Trypanosoma brucei is a causative agent of African sleeping sickness. It is an extracellular parasite which circulates in the blood, lymph and eventually invades the central nervous system. There is a great need for new medicines against the disease and specific properties of nucleoside kinases in the pathogen can be exploited as targets for chemotherapy. T. brucei contains a gene where two thy...

A method was devised for infecting Anthurium andraeanum Linden ex André, an economically important ornamental monocot, with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Tumors were obtained on plant stems 7 to 10 weeks after inoculation with oncogenic A. tumefaciens strains C58 and A281 cultured previously in an induction medium containing 200 μM acetosyringone at pH 5.5. A higher percentage of tumors were forme...

s of Student Research Projects The abstracts are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the lead student author Thee Interferon-Stimulated Gene IFITM3 Decreases Reovirus Infection Efficiency in Hela Cells Amanda A. Anafu Professor Geoffrey Holm, Department of Biology, Colgate University Reoviruses are double-stranded RNA viruses that infect the mammalian respiratory and gastrointestin...