• The damage to older buildings in the areas suffering the most wind damage was very similar to the damage in the most damaged areas in the Whitsunday Islands from Cyclone Ada in January 1970, Townsville from Cyclone Althea in December 1971, and older buildings in Innisfail from Cyclone Larry in March 2006, not much greater than in the worst affected areas of Cyclone Winifred in 1986, and an or...

Six medicinal plants Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don, Angelica archangelica L., Lavandula officinalis L., Salvia officinalis L., Melilotus officinalis L., and Ruta graveolens L. were used. The aim of the study was to compare their extracts obtained by Soxhlet (hexane) extraction, maceration with ethanol (EtOH), and supercritical CO2 extraction (SC-CO2) targeted on coumarin content (by high p...

medicinal plants are infected by fungal diseases. a four years survey indicated that, there are various fungal infections in roots and shoots of several medicinal plants that grown in isfahan. lavender (lavandula angustifolia), rosemarry (rosmarinus officinalis) and viper’s bugloss (borago officinalis) plants were infected by fusarium oxysporum and f. solani on roots, showing wilting and eventu...

Up to now, there was no document on ornamental plants that had been applied to phytoremediation, which can remedy contaminated environment and beautify it at the same time. Thus, the growth responses and possible phytoremediation ability of three ornamental plants selected from the previous preliminary experiments were further examined under single Cd or combined Cd-Pb stress. The results showe...

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different proportions of marshmallow extract (Althaea officinalis L.) on growth performance and carcass composition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Methods: Common carp with an average weight of 37.65 ± 4.40 g were fed for two months with a diet supplemented with marshmallow (A. officinalis) ext...

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the possible antioxidant activity and neuroprotective effects of aqueous and methanolic extracts of Althaea officinalis flowers against H2O2-induced oxidative stress in PC12 cells. Material and Methods: The antioxidant potential of extracts was evaluated by radical scavenging activity using 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay. For c...