Lori M. Bruce Hrishikesh D. Tamhankar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 Experiments were conducted to examine the use of spectral reflectance curves for discriminating between plant species across moisture levels. Weed species and soybean were grown at three moisture levels, and spectral reflectance data and leaf water p...

Целью настоящей статьи является анатомическое изучение надземных и подземных органов дурнишника обыкновенного. Растение дурнишник обыкновенный обладает богатым химическим составом широким спектром свойств: антисептическим, противовоспалительным, фунгицидным, потогонным, обезболивающим, жаропонижающим, антиспастическим, седативным. Подготовленные поперечные срезы поверхностные препараты Xanthium...

Objective(s) Due to increasing emergence of drug-resistance in Helicobacter pylori isolates, traditional plants are potentially valuable sources of novel anti-H. pylori agents. In this research, anti-H. pylori activity of the organic extracts of twenty native Iranian plants was determined against ten clinical isolates of H. pylori. Materials and Methods Disc diffusion was used to determine th...

Plant remedies, despite their innocuity reputation, are implicated in adverse events. The present review focuses on 30 popular herbs which are associated with severe and sometimes fatal hepatotoxicity: Actaea racemosa, Aloe barbadensis, Atractylis gummifera, Callilepsis laureola, Camellia sinensis, Centella asiatica, Chelidonium majus, Ephedra sinica, Garcinia cambogia, Hypericum perforatum, La...