Botanical preparations have been used medicinally for thousands of years. Many commercially available botanical products are being marketed in the United States with little or no publicly available scientific validation of efficacy or consistency. For botanicals to be reliable for research purposes and consumer products, they must be standardized with sufficient quality controls to ensure consi...

Objective: Our objective was to determine effects of late-summer prescribed fire on frequency Caucasian bluestem (Bothriochloa bladhii) in the Kansas Smoky Hills as well changes soil cover, botanical composition, and forage production associated with treatment.

Aim. To establish the effect of fertilization and foliar feeding with growth regulator organic balance on formation fodder productivity legume-cereal grass stands. Methods. The study was carried out in conditions Western Forest-Steppe dark gray podzolicglayed slightly washed soil Institute Agriculture Carpathian Region NAAS. technology growing perennial grasses experiment, addition to factors t...

The deposition of antimicrobial plant resins in honey bee, Apis mellifera, nests has important physiological benefits. Resin foraging is difficult to approach experimentally because resin composition is highly variable among and between plant families, the environmental and plant-genotypic effects on resins are unknown, and resin foragers are relatively rare and often forage in unobservable tre...