BACKGROUND Aflatoxins are highly toxic secondary metabolites mainly produced by Aspergillus parasiticus. This species can contaminate a wide range of agricultural commodities, including cereals, peanuts, and crops in the field. In recent years, research on medicinal herbs, such as Pistacia atlantica subsp. kurdica, have led to reduced microbial growth, and these herbs also have a particular eff...

BACKGROUND Recent circumstantial evidences are suggesting that an increasing number of Iranian patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis are unresponsive to meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime®). Pistacia atlantica is native plant in Iran (central, western, and eastern regions). Gum obtained Pistacia atlantica has been reported to possess considerable in vitro antimicrobial activity. In this study, w...

Herbal therapies are commonly used to treat or manage various diseases including diabetes mellitus. Pimpinella tirupatiensis is Indian traditional medicine and the plant has been a popular remedy for various diseases such as antitumor genic, antimicrobial, purgative, analgesic, antiseptic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory. The current study was intended to evaluate the antidiabetic efficacy of...

The volatile oil from the crude gum of Kurdica, from Pistacia atlantica Kurdica, was isolated by hydrodistillation and analyzed through a combination of gas chromatography (GC-FID) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The essential oil formed 20% of the weight of the crude gum. The major constituent was α-Pinene. The extracted essential oil was then screened for antimicrobial activ...

The antioxidant capability, total phenol, total flavonoid, anthocyanins, ascorbic acid contents, and reducing power contents of polar and non-polar extracts for flower and leaves in two stages of growth for Rhamnus kurdica Boiss in flowering were evaluated in this work. The polar extraction of flower of R. kurdica Boiss had a higher total phenolic content as well as antioxidant activity compare...

P. atlantica subsp. Kurdica, with the local name of Baneh, is a wild medicinal plant which grows in Kurdistan, Iran. The identification of resistance gene analogs holds great promise for the development of resistant cultivars. A PCR approach with degenerate primers designed according to conserved NBS-LRR (nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat) regions of known disease-resistance (R) genes...

Wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica subsp. kurdica) is one of tree species that cover much of the forest in northwest of Iran and used in industries, medicine and as food. The present study describes callus induction of the P. atlantica subsp. kurdica using seedling stem explants and the influence of different plant growth regulators including kinetin, benzyladenine (BA), thidiazuron (TDZ), 6Ben...

The essential root oils of the Pimpinella saxifraga subspecies eusaxifraga, alpestris and nigra were investigated by means of capillary GC and spectroscopic methods. A total of 48 components was identified. Characteristic constituents of all oils are pseudoisoeugenol derivatives, sesquiterpenoids and trinor-sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, but the qualitative and quantitative patterns of the individ...

Recently we reported the comparative studies on the production and accumulation of phenylpropanoids in plants and in cell cultures of anise [1, 2]. It was shown that cell cultures did not produce anethole, the main constituent in the fruit oil of anise, but instead regularly epoxy-pseudoisoeugenol(2-methylbutyrate). We first identified this unusually substituted phenylpropanoid in the root of P...