Background & Aim: Elaeagnus angustifolia L, belongs to Elaeagnaceae family, and, growing in Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari and Esfahan provinces, Iran. Elaeagnus fruit contains a wide range of different food components. Recent researches indicated that there are remedial properties in this plant and, is used as painkiller in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and seizu...

This report reviews research on plant-derived agents that prevent sperm production if taken orally by the male or that incapacitate or kill sperm on contact if used vaginally by the female. It would be of great value to develop fertility inhibitors that are totally selective for reproductive systems and enzymes, and there is a possibility that a plant-derived drug may have this effect. Plants...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L., Elaeagnaceae) is a dioecious windpollinated shrub with nitrogen fixing ability. The berries have bright colors, varying from yellow, orange to red. Domestication of sea buckthorn started in Siberia in the 1930s (Kalinina and Panteleyeva 1987). Local germplasm (ssp. mongolica) from the Altai mountains was used in the onset of the breeding. Breeding project...

Background and objectives: Hippophae rhamnoides L. known as sea buckthorn is a deciduous medicinal shrub belonging to Elaeagnaceae family. In this study, the most important chemical constituents of sea buckthornwere evaluated in wild populations of central Alborz Mountains in Iran during the growth season of 2014 and 2015. Methods: Phy...

Hippophae rhamnoides L. (Elaeagnaceae) is a hardy, deciduous shrub with yellow or orange berries. H. rhamnoides contains a series of chemical compounds including flavonols, sterols, lipids, triterpenoids, etc. H. rhamnoides has been used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of cough, indigestion, and blood stasis in China. Macrophages play major roles in host defense, immunity, and infla...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) comprises a platform (sometimes called the sensu stricto), Himalayas, and Hengduan Mountains (Liang et al., 2018; Mao 2021). latter two parts adjacent highlands are also Pan-Himalaya. Numerous plants distributed there with many endemic species, probably because of high diverse landscapes created by continuous geological climatic activities (Favre 2015; As well kn...