Plants are the most common bioindicatorsused in air quality biomonitoring studies because they are immobile and they have more sensitive to the most prevalent air pollutants than humans and animals. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals in ornamental plants of Isfahan landscape, samples of leaves and soil around Pinuseldarica and Nerium oleander were collected at different ...

Endophytic fungi found inside the plant tissue are endosymbionts, protecting their host from pests, pathogens, etc. Twenty eight endophytic fungi were isolated from different parts of Nerium oleander L., out of which, 54% of isolates were from flower, 39% from stem and 7% from leaf parts. Thirty six percent of the isolates showed antimicrobial activity against tested pathogens. The potential is...

Nerium oleander Lin, which is the only species listed in genus and a member of Apocynaceae family, was frequently employed traditional medicine to address various pathologies. N. has demonstrated its efficacy disease models at time when pharmaceutical firms are focusing more on plant-based medicines prevent side-effects resistance against synthetic drugs. Neriin, oleandrin, cardenolides, gentio...