The purpose of this review is to survey the antiparasitic plants of the Asteraceae family and their applicability in the treatment of parasites. This review is divided into three major parts: (a) literature on traditional uses of Asteraceae plants for the treatment of parasites; (b) description of the major classes of chemical compounds from Asteraceae and their antiparasitic effects; and (c) a...

Many specialist herbivores eat foods that are apparently low quality. The compensatory benefits of a poor diet may include protection from natural enemies. Several bee lineages specialize on pollen of the plant family Asteraceae, which is known to be a poor-quality food. Here we tested the hypothesis that specialization on Asteraceae pollen protects bees from parasitism. We compared rates of br...

Systematic investigation on the family Asteraceae (Compositae) growing throughout in the northern region of Bangladesh was carried out. A total of 36 species under 29 genera of the family Asteraceae were collected and identified. A complete taxonomic account of each species has been given along with their current name, local name, brief description, phenology, basic chromosome number, anatomy a...

Neoseiulus roumelioticus Papadoulis, Emmanouel & Kapaxidi (Acari: Phytoseiidae), a predatory mite previously known only from its original description Greece, is reported for the first time in Turkey. The species re-described and illustrated, based on specimens collected an unknown of plant family Asteraceae Çilingöz Nature Park Istanbul Province,

Asteraceae Bremer, K. 1994. Asteraceae: cladistics and classification. Portland, OR. Timber Press. Esselman, E.J., Crawford, D.J., Brauner, S., Stuessy, T.F., Anderson, G.J. & Silva, M. 2000. RAPD marker diversity within and divergence among species of Dendroseris (Asteraceae : Lactuceae). Am. J. Bot., 87: 591-596. Sang, T., Crawford, D.J., Kim, S.C. & Stuessy, T.F. 1994. Radiation of the Endem...

A new species of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860 from Nagano Prefecture, Honshu, Japan is described as (Allohypericia) orochi sp. nov. with detailed illustrations male and female genitalia, description larva pupa, record its host plant, Artemisia capillaris Thunberg (Asteraceae). aeruginosa (Faldermann, 1835) excluded Japanese fauna based on revision previously published records.

several soil samples were taken from western parts of iran. one of the samples col-lected from the rhizosphere of nectarine trees (prunus persica l.) in moghan, ardabil province, contained aprutides guidettii. the species subanguina picridis was recovered from leaf gall of serratula latifolia boiss (asteraceae) in the vicinity of mashhad, khorasan province. although this species showed remarkab...

Hymenoclea salsola, Asteraceae, Resin Flavonoids, 2',4',6 'OH Chalcone Hymenoclea salsola (Asteraceae), a dominant shrub of the desert areas of California and Baja California, Mexico, secretes high amounts of resin on the leaf surface. Chemi­ cal analysis of the resin revealed the presence of a complex mixture of flavonoid aglycones. Among the compounds identified is the rare 2',4',6'-OH chalco...

A backbone phylogeny that fully resolves all subfamily and deeper nodes of Asteraceae was constructed using 14 chloroplast DNA loci. The recently named genus Famatinanthus was found to be sister to the Mutisioideae-Asteroideae clade that represents more than 99% of Asteraceae and was found to have the two chloroplast inversions present in all Asteraceae except the nine genera of Barnadesioideae...