ingestion of infective metacercariae, attached to watercress or other various species of water and terrestrial plants, has been implicated as the main source of human contamination by fasciolid flukes. presence of several species of aromatic wild grown plants, which are eaten fresh on the table or used for preparation of some plant-made foods (delar, mixture of salt and ground local plants, as ...

this study was carried out in order to investigate on chromosomal behavior during meiosis in herbaceum (iranian endemic), arboretum species, f1 hybrids of two species and bc4 genotypes. the endemic varieties used in this study were semnan and shahreza (herbaceum) and vtdl as arboretum cultivar. f1s investigations showed that in the adjacent and alternative quadrivalents frequently but the bc4 o...

UNLABELLED ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL CONTEXT: Cape herbal medicine as a distinct and unique healing system is conceptualized for the first time, together with a first compilation of the authentic materia medica of the system. MATERIALS AND METHODS The early literature on Khoikhoi (Hottentot), San (Bushman) and Cape Dutch medicinal plants and medical practices is reviewed, with a focus on the Cape ...

India is one of the 12 mega biodiversity countries of the world, which represents 11% of world's flora in about 2.4% of global land mass. Approximately 28% of the total Indian flora and 33% of angiosperms occurring in India are endemic. Higher human population density in biodiversity hotspots in India puts undue pressure on these sensitive eco-regions. In the present study, we predict the futur...

Endozoochory, a mutualistic interaction between plants and frugivores, is one of the key processes responsible for maintenance tropical biodiversity. Islands, which have smaller subset frugivores when compared with mainland communities, offer an interesting setting to understand organization plant–frugivore communities vis-a-vis sites. We examined relative influence functional traits phylogenet...