India has a rich tradition of plant based knowledge in health care. Among the large number of herbal drugs existing in India, very few have been studied systematically so far. Lantana camara is an evergreen plant found throughout India. Traditionally it has been used in treating various ailments and they were supported by scientific data’s. Various literatures have reported the phytoconstituent...

• Plants are integral parts of nature and constitute the major portion of animals’ ration in the form of green and dry fodders. • Some plants are very obnoxious and produce toxicity amongst livestock. Lantana is one of them. • There are about 40 species of the genus Lantana. The important species include L. camara, L. indica, L. crenulata and L. trifolia. • Amongst various species L. camara var...

This research was designed to study the metal stress on plant species, Lantana camara in culture. Plant Tissue Culture techniques are used as a tool, to study the growth of the plants in presence of the heavy metal Lead. Lantana camara is generally known as notorious weed. Indian region have been invaded by several exotic plants of which Lantana camara is of more concern, because of its rapid s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the toxicity of methanol extract of various parts (Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower and Fruit) of Lantana camara (L. Camara) in Artemia salina. METHODS The methanol extracts of L. camara were tested for in vivo brine shrimp lethality assay. RESULTS All the tested extract exhibited very low toxicity on brine shrimp larva. The results showed that the root extract was the most...

BACKGROUND Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), a widely growing shrub which is toxic to some animal species, has been used in the traditional medicine for treating many ailments. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the antimotility effects of Lantana camara leaf constituents in mice intestine. METHODS Evaluation of antimotility activity was done in intestine of mice treated with Lan...

The major objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of enzymatic pretreatment on Lantana camara for improved yield of reducing sugar and bioethanol production. An optimum enzymatic delignification (88.79 %) was achieved after 8 h of incubation. After delignification the substrate was further treated with the mixture of carbohydratases for appropriate saccharification. Th...

A comparative study of the chemical composition of essential oils of two very similar species of the Verbenaceae family (Lantana camara and L. radula) revealed that the main components of essential oil of L. camara were germacrene-D (19.8%) and E-caryophyllene (19.7%), while those of L. radula were E-caryophyllene (25.3%), phytol (29.2%) and E-nerolidol (19.0%). We have hypothesized that the ob...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the toxicity of Lantana camara methanol extract. METHODS In order to evaluate the toxicity of Lantana camara, the acute toxicity of the methanolic extract on adult mice and cytotoxicity test on Vero cell line were investigated. A fixed large dose of 2 g/kg body weight of L. camara leaf extract was administrated by a single oral gavage ...

Plant invasions of natural communities are commonly associated with reduced species diversity and altered ecosystem structure and function. This study investigated the effects of invasion and management of the woody shrub Lantana camara (lantana) in wet sclerophyll forest on the south-east coast of Australia. The effects of L. camara invasion and management on resident vegetation diversity and ...

Several known triterpenoids have been isolated from the roots of Lantana camara L. along with two new ones namely: 3ß,19α-dihydroxy-ursan-28-oic acid (7) and methyl 21,22ß-epoxy-3ß-hydroxy-olean-12-en-28-oate (8a). The hepatoprotective principle, oleanolic acid (1), from the roots has been converted into its 28-->13ß-lactone 10 by a facile photo-oxidation reaction. The leaves of L. camara have ...