differentiation among populations of the iranian teucrium polium l.was analyzed on the basis of morphological and phytochemical variability, to evaluate the level and distribution of diversity among four distant populations from arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid regions of fars province. morphological analysis included 11 characters related to the plant, leaf, and stem morphology. analyses of vari...

background & aim: chaharmahal va bakhtiari province contains several major floristic plant associations of central zagros mountains. kallar species were used for medicines nutrias in this area. however, these valuable species have been threatened and even become at risk of extinction due to habitat fragmentation and disturbance. therefore, the first step in protecting theses species is iden...

in iran, more than 90% of raw materials including oils and oil seeds are provided through import. camelina sativa l. as an oilseed crop, belongs to brassicaceae family, has been shown in several experiments that need very little water and resistant to chilling injury than other plant oils, especially canola. this experiment was conducted at research station of campus of agriculture and natural ...

CONTEXT Traditional medicinal plants have long been used in Ethiopia to treat human and livestock ailments. Despite a well-documented rich tradition of medicinal plant use in the country, their direct antimicrobial effects are still poorly known. OBJECTIVE To investigate the antimicrobial activity of 19 medicinal plant species that were selected based on the ethnobotanical information on thei...

antioxidants are vital substances which possess the ability to protect the body from damage caused by free radical induced oxidative stress. a variety of free radical scavenging antioxidants exist within the body which many of them are derived from dietary sources like fruits, vegetables and teas. in this study the antioxidant activity and radical scavenging activity of methanolic extracts of s...

yarrow (achillea spp.) belonging to the family of asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, carminative and anti-oxidant effects. the present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from damavand mountain of iran. the samples were collected ...

background and objectives:hormozgan province is located in the south of iran, bordering waters of the persian gulf and oman sea. due to the antioxidant potential of plants which might be responsible for their medicinal properties, the antioxidant properties of four medicinal plants of the region were evaluated. methods: the antioxidant properties of chrozophora obliqua, daphne mucronata, salvia...

In this paper, we propose a methodology for color and edge histogram based medicinal plants image retrieval. The medicinal plants are divided into herbs, shrubs and trees. The medicinal plants are used in ayurvedic medicines. Manual identification of medicinal plants requires a priori knowledge. Automatic recognition of medicinal plants is useful. We have considered medicinal plant species, suc...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to identify and compare rates of admission to hospital of preschool children for medicinal and non-medicinal poisoning in a defined population. DESIGN The study was an analysis of computerised abstracts of hospital inpatient records for poisoning. SETTING Six districts in southern England covered by the Oxford record linkage study. SUBJECTS The subjects were ch...