BACKGROUND In Solomon Islands, forests have provided people with ecological services while being affected by human use and protection. This study used a quantitative ethnobotanical analysis to explore the society-forest interaction and its transformation in Roviana, Solomon Islands. We compared local plant and land uses between a rural village and urbanized village. Special attention was paid t...

Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid has been recognized as an important constituent of the 70% ethanolsoluble-nitrogen fraction of many liliaceous plants (Fowden, 1956; Fowden & Steward, 1957). ConvaUaria majali8 (lily of the valley) and Polygonatum multiflorum (a Solomon's seal) are two common representatives of these plants im Britain, and part 6 of this series (Fowden & Bryant, 1959) described exper...

OBJECTIVE To comparatively evaluate selected herbs for their ability to protect neuronal cells from direct betaA(1-42) insult. DESIGN Twenty-seven (27) herbs were selected, extracted with aqueous methanol (90%) and chloroform, and the extracts were evaluated for their ability to protect PC12 rat pheochromocytoma and primary neuronal cells from betaA(1-42) insult using both 3-[4,5-dimethylthia...

Objective: Polygonatum (Asparagaceae) is a rhizomatous monocotyledon genus that distributed in the temperate regions of Northern Hemisphere. The represented by 5 species Turkey (P. glaberrimum, P. latifolium, multiflorum, verticillatum and orientale). Karyological, palynological, phylogenic, chemotaxonomical some anatomical studies have been carried out previously. However, detailed features sc...

A comparison with the Liliaceae in Rothmaler (pp. 605-6) shows that the second plant is in fact Solomon's seal (Polygonatum multiflorum L., var., also called Meyglockchen). These examples reiterate a common pattern among medieval herbals. The pictures do not always show the plant in question. Rather, they reflect the botanical biases of the illustrator. Though these volumes are undoubtedly valu...