number of over-50-year-old Americans who regularly visited the cinema increased by 68%.” The article goes on to say that largely in response to this demographic shift in filmgoers, “it is estimated that around a third of Hollywood productions are being made with an eye on older audiences.” Indeed, over the past 5–6 years, there have been a large number of major-release feature length films that...

Colchicine was used as chemical mutagen for In vitro induction of polyploids. Nodal segments of In vitro grown marigold plantlets were cultured on MS medium supplemented with four different concentrations of colchcine (0.0%, 0.001%, 0.01% and 0.05%) for 12h, separately. After treatment, nodal segment were shifted to colchicine free MS medium for normal growth. Highest mortality rate (72.74%) an...

Tannin acyl hydrolase produced extracellularly by the fungal strain Penicillium notatum NCIM 923 in mixed solid state fermentation of wheat bran and marigold flower in the ratio 4 : 1 was purified from the cell-free extract broth by ammonium sulphate fractionation followed by diethylaminoethyl-cellulose column chromatography. Tannase was purified by 19.89-fold with yield of 11.77%. The specific...

Extracts from herb and flowers of Bidens tripartita L. (Asteraceae), obtained using solvents of different polarity, were studied for their radical scavenging effects. Antioxidant activities of pure flavonoids: flavanomarein (isookanin 7-O-glucoside), cynaroside (luteolin 7-O-glucoside) and luteolin, which had been isolated from this plant, were also evaluated. Radical-scavenging activity was me...

in order to study the effect of water deficit stress and different nitrogen levels on flower yield, yield components and water use efficiency of calendula officinalis l., an experiment was conducted as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications, at research field of islamic azad university, birjand branch in 2009. in this experiment, irrigation treatments (irri...

To our eyes, the world is arrayed in a seemingly infinite splendor of hues, from the sunny orange of a marigold flower to the gunmetal gray of an automobile chassis, from the buoyant blue of a midwinter sky to the sparkling green of an emerald. It is remarkable, then, that for most human beings any color can be reproduced by mixing together just three fixed wavelengths of light at certain inten...

The study was conducted to evaluate 23 genotypes of marigold (Tagetes spp.) collected from different and diverse sources correlation studies were performed for various growth yield characters. results shows that the maximum plant height (92.60 cm) is recorded in genotype AMS-15, whereas spread (52.80 cm), flower weight (8.93 g) largest size (7.63 ‘AMS-16’. highest number branches (11.13), flowe...

Introduction and objective: Otitis externa, commonly called ear disease, is characterized by inflammation of the external ear canal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of Cassia fistula flowers, leaves and bark extracts against Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis, Escherchia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter sp., and Candida albicans, pathogens caus...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and anti-aging effects of marigold methanol extract (MGME) in human dermal fibroblasts. Total polyphenolic and flavonoid contents in MGME were 74.8 mg TAE (tannic acid equivalent)/g and 85.6 mg RE (rutin equivalent)/g, respectively. MGME (500 μg/mL) increased 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6...

1 representation for guiding trail leg trajectory over an obstacle 2 3 4 by 5 6 Kim Lajoie, Leigh W. Bloomfield, Fraser J. Nelson, Jaewon J. Suh, and Daniel S. Marigold 7 8 9 Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 10 British Columbia, Canada 11 12 13 14 Correspondence to: 15 Dr. Daniel Marigold 16 Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiolog...