0

A longstanding paradigm in ecology is that there are positive associations between herbivore diversity, specialization, and plant species diversity, with a focus on taxonomic diversity. However, phytochemical diversity is also an informative metric, as insect herbivores interact with host plants not as taxonomic entities, but as sources of nutrients, primary metabolites, and mixtures of attract...

Medicinal plants contain bioactive compounds which are used for treatment of various human diseases.Phytochemicals have two categories i.e., primary and secondary constituents.Secondary metabolites are responsible for medicinal activity of plants. The phytochemical analysis of total extracts in water, ethanol, methanol, chloroform, hexane and ether extracts of Scopariadulcis L.were investigated...

Most known insect species are involved in chemically mediated plant–insect multi-trophic interactions, and recent syntheses point to a substantial gap in our understanding of trophic interaction diversity, especially in the tropics. One approach to filling this gap is to examine relationships between genomic, metabolomic, taxonomic, and trophic interaction diversity via quantifying and comparin...

The present study was aimed to evaluate the phytochemical constituents and antibacterial activity of the flower extracts of Albizia lebbeck, Cordia sebestena, Thunbergia grandiflora and Antigonon leptopus. Preliminary phytochemical screening was done by the standard methods described by Harborne. Antibacterial study was carried out by disc diffusion method. The results of the phytochemical anti...

The Balkan Region represents one of the Europe’s major centres of plant diversity, with an substantial number of endemic genera and species having a wide distribution throughout the diverse ecosystems of the region. Plants remain an unequalled source of biochemical diversity and in the last several decades there is an unprecedented interest towards identifying perspective leads of plant origin....

The genomic DNA polymorphism and phytochemical variation of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni was investigated by RAPD-PCR and HPLC analysis. For initial PCR screening, about hundred oligo-nucleotide primers were used to amplify the genomic DNA from three accessions of S. rebaudiana (L1 to L3). The concentration of stevioside content was quantified by using HPLC analysis. A total of 9 primers were fina...

National Science FoundationNational Foundation (NSF) [1953888, 1856776, 1953934, 1953938]