Seven indigenous medicinal plants, Mallotus philippensis, Pogostemon cablin, Colebrookea oppositifolia, Mussaenda macrophylla, Celosia argentea, Pilea symmeria and Thysanolaena maxima, have been investigated for their antimicrobial activity and antioxidant activity. The ethanol extract of these medicinal plants were subjected to evaluate their antibacterial properties and their antioxidant pote...

Revegetation on moving sand dunes is a widely used approach for restoring the degraded sandy land in northeastern China. The development of sand-fixation forest might improve structures soil microbial communities and affect N cycle. In present study, diversities nitrite (nirS nirK) nitrous oxide (nosZ) reductase genes were investigated under chronosequence Caragana microphylla shrub (9- 19-year...

Azolla is an aquatic plant that has the potential to be used as animal feed due its high nutritive value and very productive plant. Thus, objectives of this study are determine compare nutrient mineral composition pinnata microphylla. A. microphylla plants have a introduced new alternative supplement ruminants. Samples were collected at Ladang Lembah Kaprima Hulu Seladang, Tenox Agribusiness (M...

Gum and resin bearing tree species were one of the very important resources in Ethiopia. Particularly, Borana pastoralists used these as a source income generation for their livelihoods. However, resource was declining over time due to different natural human made problems. Therefore, it is study its future sustainability through soil seed bank, germinations, vegetative propagations analyzing r...

P Aksoy-Sagirli, T Yilmaz-Ozden, N Ozsoy, B Ozbek Celik, S Kultur & G Melikoglu Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University, 34116 Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University, 34116 Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University, 34116 Istanbul, Turkey; Department ...

Veloporphyrellus is a genus known from North and Central America, southeastern Asia, and Africa. Because species of this genus are phenotypically similar to some taxa in several genera, such as Boletellus, Leccinum, Strobilomyces, Suillus and Tylopilus s.l. belonging to Boletales, its phylogenetic disposition has never been addressed. We analyzed four DNA regions, the nuclear ribosomal LSU and ...