Interest in myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) by food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutic industries generated the integration of biomasses harvested from wild populations as raw materials with yields cultivated orchards. The domestication process is reviewed considering shoot, fruit, leaf biometric characters selections obtained three steps program. first step started Sardinia (Italy) 1995 analysis germpla...

The effectiveness of a frugivore as a disperser of a plant is greatly determined by how fruits and seeds are handled in its mouth and its digestive tract. Although a number of studies have investigated the effect of avian ingestion on germination, we still know very little about the modifications to seeds during ingestion and the specific consequences on plant fitness. Here we investigate for t...

Myrtle species includes the melanocarpa (with pigmented fruit when ripe) and leucocarpa varieties unpigmented fruit). Myrtle-bearing is more common as a wild or cultivated plant for red liqueur production, while genotypes with are rare. also appreciated in international market of ornamental plants garden shrub, flowering fruiting potted plant, production cut leafy branches. Varieties fruit, com...

Myrtus communis, Arbutus unedo and Retama sphaerocarpa are Mediterranean shrubs widely used in revegetation of semiarid degraded soils. The aim of this work is to study the resistance of these plants to arsenic under controlled conditions, in order to evaluate their potential use in revegetation and/or phytoremediation of As-polluted soils. R. sphaerocarpa showed higher resistance to As than M....

To investigate the effect of drugs other than metronidazole, 3 non-pregnant women infected with Trichomonas vaginalis were treated with doxycycline, 2 x 200 mg/day for 1 week. Another 3 women were treated with praziquantel, single dose, 40 mg/kg body weight. No therapeutic effect was detected for either drug. In vitro, oxytetracycline led to death of T. vaginalis at a concentration of 15 mg in ...

This study documents indigenous medicinal flora - utilization, and was carried out in the Guerbes-Sanhadja wetland complex, between January 2018 December 2020. The detailed information gathered from users of plants mainly based on semi-structured interviews. A total 102 plant species distributed 48 families were found practice by natives for fulfilling their daily life requirements. most freque...

Climate change has strongly increased the fire frequency in Mediterranean forests causing changes soil bacterial, fungal and microarthropod communities. Fire impacts on properties depend vegetation covers. In this framework, aim of research was to evaluate effects communities community soils under trees shrubs a area. Surface cores were sampled unburnt burnt (three years since occurrence) patch...