The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of the crude extract of Cleome droserifolia (CD) leaves on experimentally infected mice with Schistosoma mansoni. Two groups of mice, showing a patent infection of S. mansoni, one of them was daily treated with an alcoholic extract of CD leaves (0.31 g kg-1 body weight, i.p.) for 21 days. The schistosomicidal activity of the CD extract was e...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Ibicella lutea and Proboscidea parviflora are two American semi-desert species of glandular sticky plants that are suspected of carnivory as they can catch small insects. The same characteristics might also hold for two semi-desert plants with glandular sticky leaves from Israel, namely Cleome droserifolia and Hyoscyamus desertorum. The presence of proteases on foliar hairs,...

During evolution, genomes expanded via whole-genome, segmental, tandem, and individual-gene duplications, and the emerged redundant paralogs would be eliminated or retained owing to selective neutrality or adaptive benefit and further functional divergence. Here we show that tandem paralogs can contribute adaptive quantitative benefit and thus have been retained in a lineage-specific manner. In...

Spiderplant (Cleome gynandra L.,) exists as a semi-cultivated, indigenous leafy vegetable in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It has natural habitat the tropics and sub-tropics. The crop potential to contribute sustainable food nutritional security. This is due its richness both macro- micro-nutrients (minerals, vitamins essential oils respectively). With ethnopharmacological uses, it underutilized la...

The genus Cleome, belongs to the family Capparidaceae. Seven species were found in KhorasanProvince (Iran). Fresh materials were collected from its natural habitat and were sectioned with a sliding microtome with the following procedures: 1. Section were cleared and stained, 2. Staining without prior removal of the paraffin. Vessel preparations were obtained by maceration using Jeffrey solution...

Let Sw+2 be the vector space of cusp forms of weight w + 2 on the full modular group, and let S∗ w+2 denote its dual space. Periods of cusp forms can be regarded as elements of S∗ w+2. The Eichler-Shimura isomorphism theorem asserts that odd (or even) periods span S w+2 . However, periods are not linearly independent; in fact, they satisfy the Eichler-Shimura relations. This leads to a natural ...