Acta Botanica Malacitana - 36, 2011

Contents:
ACHERKOUK, M., A. MAATOUGUI & M.A. EL HOUMAIZ.
Communautés végétales et facies pastoraux dans la zone de Taourirt-Tafoughalt du Maroc oriental: écologie et inventaire floristique. Vegetation and pasturelands in Taourirt-Tafoughalt (Eastern Morocco): ecology and flora.

ARNELAS, I. & J.A. DEVESA.
Revisión taxonómica de Centaurea sect. Jacea (Mill.) Pers. (Asteraceae) en la Península Ibérica. Taxonomic review of Centaurea sect. Jacea (Mill.) Pers. (Asteraceae) in the Iberian Peninsula.

BLANCA, G. & V N. SUÁREZ-SANTIAGO.
Centaurea boissieri DC. y C. resupinata Coss. (Asteraceae) en la Península Ibérica. Centaurea boissieri DC. and C. resupinata Coss. (Asteraceae) in the Iberian Peninsula.

CIRES, E., C. CUESTA, M.A. FERNÁNDEZ CASADO, M.C. FERNÁNDEZ-CARVAJAL & J.A. FERNÁNDEZ PRIETO.
Malformación polínica y niveles de ploidía en Ranunculus grex parnassiifolius. Pollen malformation and ploidy levels in Ranunculus grex parnassiifolius.

GHEZLAOUI, B.E., N. BENABADJI, D. BENMANSOUR & A. MERZOUK.
Analyse des peuplements végétaux halophytes dans le Chott El-Gharbi (Oranie-Algérie). Vegetal halophytes plants analysis in Chott El- Gharbi (Oranie-Algeria).

GIL-LÓPEZ, M.J.
Etnobotánica de la camarina (Corema album, Empetraceae) en Cádiz. Ethnobotany of Corema album (Empetraceae) in Cadiz.

LÓPEZ, G. & R. MORALES.
Sobre los tipos nomenclaturales de algunas especies linneanas de Teucrium, Phlomis y Thymus (Labiatae). About the nomenclatural types of some linnean species of Teucrium, Phlomis and Thymus (Labiatae).

RIVERA-GONZÁLEZ, M.C. & P.M. SÁNCHEZ-CASTILLO.
Diatomeas planctónicas del litoral de Andalucía (Espana). Planktonic diatoms from the coast of Andalusia (Spain).


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Russian Journal of Plant Physiology - 58 (5-6), 2011

Russian Journal of Plant Physiology - 58 (5), 2011


Contents:


Regulation Systems for Stress Responses in Cyanobacteria

A. A. Zorina, K. S. Mironov, N. S. Stepanchenko, M. A. Sinetova, N. V. Koroban, V. V. Zinchenko, E. V. Kupriyanova, S. I. Allakhverdiev, and D. A. Los


Expression of Ferritin Gene in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Plants under Different Supply with Iron and Different Intensity of Oxidative Stress

N. I. Shevyakova, B. Ts. Eshinimaeva, and Vl. V. Kuznetsov


Effect of Common Sage Plant Treatment with Polyamines on the Contents of Proline and Free and Conjugated Polyamines under Oxidative Stress

N. L. Radyukina, A. V. Shashukova, S. Mapelli, and T. N. Soshinkova


Interactive Effects of Salicylic Acid and Nitric Oxide on Soybean Plants under NaCl Salinity

M. Simaei, R. A. Khavarinejad, S. Saadatmand, F. Bernard, and H. Fahimi


Protective Effect of Exogenously Applied Nitric Oxide on Aluminum-Induced Oxidative Stress in Soybean Plants

M. Z. Cai, S. N. Zhang, F. M. Wang, N. Wang, and S. Y. Xu


Effect of the ipt Gene Expression on Wheat Tolerance to Root Flooding

D. V. Tereshonok, A. Yu. Stepanova, Yu. I. Dolgikh, E. S. Osipova, D. V. Belyaev, G. R. Kudoyarova, L. B. Vysotskaya, and B. B. Vartapetian p. 799 abstract


Fusarium sambucinum Isolate FS-94 Induces Resistance against Fusarium Wilt of Tomato via Activation and Priming of a Salicylic Acid-Dependent Signaling System

L. A. Shcherbakova, T. A. Nazarova, O. D. Mikityuk, and D. R. Fravel


Defense Response of Pine Stem Phloem to Wounding and Treatment with Mycelial Extracts from Ceratocystis laricicola

G. G. Polyakova, V. V. Stasova, and N. V. Pashenova


Effect of Fusaric Acid on Prooxidant and Antioxidant Properties of the Potato Cell Suspension Culture

O. A. Sapko, A. Sh. Utarbaeva, and S. Makulbek


Effect of Copper Excess in Environment on Soybean Root Viability and Morphology

A. L. Kulikova, N. A. Kuznetsova, and V. P. Kholodova


Effect of Water Stress on Leaf Photosynthesis, Chlorophyll Content, and Growth of Oriental Lily

Y. J. Zhang, Z. K. Xie, Y. J. Wang, P. X. Su, L. P. An, and H. Gao p. 844 abstract


Superoxide Radical and Auxin Are Implicated in Redistribution of Root Growth and the Expression of Auxin and Cell-Cycle Genes in Cadmium-Stressed Rice

F. Y. Zhao, F. Hu, M. M. Han, S. Y. Zhang, and W. Liu


Responses of Photosystem II of White Elm to UV-B Radiation Monitored by OJIP Fluorescence Transients

X. L. Pan, D. Y. Zhang, and L. Li


Scots Pine as a Model Plant for Studying the Mechanisms of Conifers Adaptation to Heavy Metal Action: 1. Effects of Continuous Zinc Presence on Morphometric and Physiological Characteristics of Developing Pine Seedlings

Yu. V. Ivanov, Yu. V. Savochkin, and Vl. V. Kuznetsov


Effect of Insertion of Apoplastic Invertase Gene on Photosynthesis of Potato Plants Grown at Various Light Intensities

V. I. Chikov, G. G. Bakirova, S. N. Batasheva, F. F. Zamalieva, G. A. Salyakhova, G. F. Safiullina, M. S. Sinkevich, and L. A. Khamidullina


Effects of the Season and Growth Stage on the Contents of Lipids and Photosynthetic Pigments in Brown Alga Undaria pinnatifida

N. I. Gerasimenko, A. V. Skriptsova, N. G. Busarova, and O. P. Moiseenko


Protection of Growth and Photosynthesis of Brassica juncea Genotype with Dual Type Sulfur Transport System against Sulfur Deprivation by Coordinate Changes in the Activities of Sulfur Metabolism Enzymes and Cysteine and Glutathione Production

N. A. Anjum, S. Umar, M. Iqbal, I. Ahmad, M. E. Pereira and N. A. Khan


Effects of Redox Agents on Protein Tyrosine Phosphorylation in Pea Roots

N. V. Petrova and F. G. Karimova


Salicylic Acid Induces Stomatal Closure by Modulating Endogenous Hormone Levels in Cucumber Cotyledons

J. H. Hao, X. L. Wang, C. J. Dong, Z. G. Zhang, and Q. M. Shang


Activation of Genes Encoding Mitochondrial Proteins Involved in Alternative and Uncoupled Respiration of Tomato Plants Treated with Low Temperature and Reactive Oxygen Species

V. N. Popov, A. T. Eprintsev, and E. V. Maltseva


Stimulation of Defense Responses of In Vitro Potato Plants by Treatment with Steroid Glycosides under Abiotic Stresses

L. A. Volkova, V. V. Urmantseva, A. B. Burgutin, S. N. Maevskaya, and A. M. Nosov


Expression Profiles of a CONSTANS Homologue GmCOL11 in Glycine max

Y. Jiang, Y. Z. Han, and X. M. Zhang


Exometabolites of Bread Wheat and Tomato Affecting the Plant–Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere

L. V. Kravchenko, A. I. Shapozhnikov, N. M. Makarova, T. S. Azarova, K. A. L’vova, I. I. Kostyuk, O. A. Lyapunova, and I. A. Tikhonovich p. 936 abstract


Genetically Transformed Roots as a Model System for Studying Physiological and Biochemical Processes in Intact Roots

I. N. Kuzovkina and M. Yu. Vdovitchenko


Erratum: “Effects of Different Conservation Methods on the Genetic Stability of Potato Germplasm”


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Russian Journal of Plant Physiology - 58 (6), 2011


Contents:

Foreword to the Publication of Materials of All-Russian Symposium “Plant and Stress” (Moscow, October 9–12, 2010)

Vl. V. Kuznetsov and V. P. Kholodova


Violaxanthin and Diadinoxanthin Cycles as an Important Photoprotective Mechanism in Photosynthesis

D. Latowski, S. Schaller, M. Olchawa-Pajor, R. Goss, and K. Strzaframe0ka


Role of Chlorophylls and Carotenoids in Seed Tolerance to Abiotic Stressors

G. N. Smolikova, N. A. Laman, and O. V. Boriskevich


The Role of Ca2+, H+, and Cl– Ions in Generation of Variation Potential in Pumpkin Plants

V. A. Vodeneev, E. K. Akinchits, L. A. Orlova, and V. S. Sukhov


Production of Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Enzymes of Pea and Soybean Plants under Hypoxia and High CO2 Concentration in Medium

A. N. Ershova, N. V. Popova, and O. S. Berdnikova


Effect of Industrial Air Pollution on Wild Plant Seed Germination and Seedling Growth

I. V. Lyanguzova


Cross Adaptation of Potato Plants to Low Temperatures and Potato Cyst Nematode Infestation

M. I. Sysoeva, V. V. Lavrova, E. M. Matveeva, E. G. Sherudilo, and L. V. Topchieva


Expression Patterns of ABA-Dependent and ABA-Independent Genes during Wheat Cold Adaptation

V. V. Talanova, A. F. Titov, L. V. Topchieva, and N. C. Repkina


Woody Plants of Yakutia and Low-Temperature Stress

K. A. Petrov, V. E. Sofronova, V. V. Bubyakina, A. A. Perk, T. D. Tatarinova, A. G. Ponomarev, V. A. Chepalov, Zh. M. Okhlopkova, I. V. Vasilieva, and T. Ch. Maximov


Processes Hindering Activation of Lipid Peroxidation in Cold-Tolerant Plants under Hypothermia

M. S. Sin’kevich, N. V. Naraikina, and T. I. Trunova


Effect of Sodium Nitroprusside on Heat Resistance of Wheat Coleoptiles: Dependence on the Formation and Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species

Yu. V. Karpets, Yu. E. Kolupaev, and T. O. Yastreb


Stress Responses of Wheat Leaves to Dehydration: Participation of Endogenous NO and Effect of Sodium Nitroprusside

A. V. Boyarshinov and E. V. Asafova


Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Chloroplast Gene Expression by Heavy Metals in Barley Seedlings

N. R. Zaripova, V. P. Kholodova, Ya. O. Zubo, V. V. Kusnetsov, and Vl. V. Kuznetsov


Lectin Involvement in the Development of Wheat Tolerance to Cadmium Toxicity

M. V. Bezrukova, R. A. Fatkhutdinova, A. R. Lubyanova, A. R. Murzabaev, V. V. Fedyaev, and F. M. Shakirova


Effect of Leghemoglobin A Gene Expression from Soybean on Tobacco Plant Growth and Antioxidant State under Damaging Action of Cadmium

M. Yu. Dmitryukova, A. Kh. Baimiev, V. V. Fedyaev, and Z. F. Rakhmankulova


Effect of Chronic Irradiation on Plant Resistance to Biotic Stress in 30-km Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone

A. P. Dmitriev, D. M. Grodzinskii, N. I. Gushcha, and M. S. Kryzhanovskaya


Effect of Weak Pulse Magnetic Fields on Lipid Peroxidation and Activities of Antioxidant Complex Components in Pea Chloroplasts

E. O. Polovinkina, E. A. Kal’yasova, Yu. V. Sinitsina, and A. P. Veselov


Treatment with the Herbicide Granstar Induces Oxidative Stress in Cereal Leaves

A. N. Gar’kova, M. M. Rusyaeva, O. V. Nushtaeva, Yu. N. Aroslankina, and A. S. Lukatkin


Using the Roots as Test Objects for the Assessment of Biological Action of Chemical Substances

V. B. Ivanov


Author Index to Volume 58

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Plant Breeding - 131 (1), 2012

Contents:

REVIEW ARTICLE


Breeding for resistance to ear rots caused by Fusarium spp. in maize – a review (pages 1–19)

Ákos Mesterházy, Marc Lemmens and Lana M. Reid


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Identification of candidate gene–based SSR markers for lysine and tryptophan metabolic pathways in maize (Zea mays) (pages 20–27)

Banisetti K. Babu, Pawan K. Agrawal, Hari S. Gupta, Anil Kumar and Jagadeesh C. Bhatt


Inheritance of resistance to Gibberella ear rot and deoxynivalenol contamination in five flint maize crosses (pages 28–32)

Matthias Martin, Baldev S. Dhillon, Thomas Miedaner and Albrecht E. Melchinger


Mapping QTL for heat tolerance at flowering stage in rice using SNP markers (pages 33–41)

Changrong Ye, May A. Argayoso, Edilberto D. Redona, Sheryl N. Sierra, Marcelino A. Laza, Christine J. Dilla, Youngjun Mo, Michael J. Thomson, Joonghyoun Chin, Celia B. Delavina, Genaleen Q. Diaz and Jose E. Hernandez


Mapping of tms8 gene for temperature-sensitive genic male sterility (TGMS) in rice (Oryza sativa L.) (pages 42–47)

Appibhai J. Hussain, Jauhar Ali, Ebrahimali A. Siddiq, Vidya S. Gupta, Umesh K. Reddy and Prabhakar K. Ranjekar


Characterization of quantitative trait loci for number of primary branches in near-isogenic lines from a cross between the Oryza sativa cultivar ‘Hwayeongbyeo’ and the wild relative Oryza rufipogon (pages 48–53)

Shi-Dong Ji, Ping-Rong Yuan, Luo Xiao, Hyun-Sook Lee and Sang-Nag Ahn


Rapid phenotyping for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat (pages 54–61)

Lee T. Hickey, Peter M. Wilkinson, Cheridan R. Knight, Ian D. Godwin, Olena Y. Kravchuk, Elizabeth A. B. Aitken, Urmil K. Bansal, Harbans S. Bariana, Ian H. De Lacy and Mark J. Dieters


Assessment of the effects of the Gpc-B1 allele on senescence rate, grain protein concentration and mineral content in hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from the Pacific Northwest Region of the USA (pages 62–68)

Arron H. Carter, Dipak K. Santra and Kimberlee K. Kidwell


Development and identification of wheat–barley 2H chromosome translocation lines carrying the Isa gene (pages 69–74)

Hongda Zou, Ying Wu, Hongkui Liu, Zhishan Lin, Xingguo Ye, Xiao Chen and Yaping Yuan


Allelopathic potential of Triticum spp., Secale spp. and Triticosecale spp. and use of chromosome substitutions and translocations to improve weed suppression ability in winter wheat (pages 75–80)

Nils-Ove Bertholdsson, Staffan C. Andersson and Arnulf Merker


Molecular cytogenetic identification of a wheat-Aegilops geniculata Roth spontaneous chromosome substitution and its effects on the growth and physiological responses of seedlings to osmotic stress (pages 81–87)

Svetlana Landjeva, Konstantina Kocheva, Tania Karceva, Adél Sepsi, István Molnár, Annamária Schneider, Ganka Ganeva, Georgi Georgiev and Márta Molnár-Láng


Male parent effects on stigma receptivity and seed set of sorghum A-lines under chilling field temperatures (pages 88–93)

Ma. Eugenia Cisneros-López, Leopoldo E. Mendoza-Onofre and Víctor A. González-Hernández


Influence of types of sterile cytoplasm on the resistance to sorghum shoot fly (Atherigona soccata) (pages 94–99)

Umakanth V. Akula, Padmaja G. Poluru, Ashok Kumar Jangam and Patil V. Jagannath


Quantitative genetic parameters for selection of biomass yield in hybrid rye (pages 100–103)

Thomas Miedaner, Silvia Koch, Andreas Seggl, Brigitta Schmiedchen and Peer Wilde


Estimation of heritability of benzoxazinoid production in rye (Secale cereale) using gas chromatographic analysis (pages 104–109)

Ashley M. Brooks, David A. Danehower, J. Paul Murphy, S. Chris Reberg-Horton and James D. Burton


Efficiency of PowerCore in core set development using amplified fragment length polymorphic markers in mungbean (pages 110–117)

Kyaw Thu Moe, Jae-Gyun Gwag and Yong-Jin Park


Development of EST-derived SSR markers in pea (Pisum sativum) and their potential utility for genetic mapping and transferability (pages 118–124)

Raghvendra K. Mishra, Baniekal H. Gangadhar, Akula Nookaraju, Sushil Kumar and Se W. Park


Participatory approach in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) breeding for drought tolerance for southern Ethiopia (pages 125–134)

Asrat Asfaw, Conny J. M. Almekinders, Matthew W. Blair and Paul C. Struik


Meiotic analysis of the hybrids between cultivated and synthetic tetraploid groundnuts (pages 135–138)

Nalini Mallikarjuna, Sandhya Srikanth, Ravi K. Vellanki, Deepak R. Jadhav, Kumkum Das and Hari D. Upadhyaya


Highly informative genic and genomic SSR markers to facilitate molecular breeding in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) (pages 139–147)

Manish K. Pandey, Bhimana Gautami, Thandoniappan Jayakumar, Manda Sriswathi, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Makanahally V. Chennabyre Gowda, Thankappan Radhakrishnan, David J. Bertioli, Steven J. Knapp, Duglas R. Cook and Rajeev K. Varshney


Evaluation of a peanut collection for shell-colour traits in two diverse soil types (pages 148–154)

Ran Hovav, Hana Badani, Idit Ginzberg, Ilan Chedvat, Yael Brand and Shmuel Galili


Male Sterility in three crop Lupinus species (pages 155–163)

Jon C. Clements, Julia Wilson, Mark W. Sweetingham, John Quealy and Gordon Francis


Improved production of doubled haploids in Brassica rapa through microspore culture (pages 164–169)

Yun Zhang, Aijie Wang, Yang Liu, Yushu Wang and Hui Feng


The downy mildew resistance locus Pp523 is located on chromosome C8 of Brassica oleracea L. (pages 170–175)

Jorge D. Carlier, Claudia A. Alabaça, Paula S. Coelho, António A. Monteiro and José M. Leitao


A simple and rapid procedure for identification of seed coat colour at the early developmental stage of Brassica juncea and Brassica napus seeds (pages 176–179)

Ying Lu, Xianjun Liu, Shuyan Liu, Yingchun Yue, Chunyun Guan and Zhongsong Liu


Morphological traits of phytomers and shoots in the first year of growth as markers for predicting apple tree canopy architecture (pages 180–185)

Vidmantas Bendokas, Dalia Gelvonauskiene, Tadeusas Siksnianas, Grazina Staniene, Jurate B. Siksnianiene, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis and Vidmantas Stanys


Development of sequence-tagged site markers linked to the pillar growth type in peach (Prunus persica) (pages 186–192)

Osama Sajer, Ralph Scorza, Chris Dardick, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Albert G. Abbott and Renate Horn


Chromosomal regions associated with dollar spot resistance in colonial bentgrass (pages 193–197)

David Rotter, Emily Merewitz, Bingru Huang and Faith C. Belanger


Recurrent selection for increased seed germination in sand bluestem (Andropogon hallii) (pages 198–202)

Tim L. Springer


Parent–offspring correlation estimate of heritability for late blight resistance conferred by an accession of the tomato wild species Solanum pimpinellifolium (pages 203–210)

Heather L. Merk and Majid R. Foolad


The expression of pectin methylesterase in onion flower buds is associated with the dominant male-fertility restoration allele (pages 211–216)

Yumeng Huo, Jun Miao, Bingjiang Liu, Yanyan Yang, Yihui Zhang, Yasuki Tahara, Qingwei Meng, Qiwei He, Hidemi Kitano and Xiong Wu


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS


Inheritance of foliar blast resistance in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) (pages 217–219)

Shashi K. Gupta, Rajan Sharma, Kedar N. Rai and Ram P. Thakur


Inheritance of resistance to sunflower broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) in an interspecific cross between Helianthus annuus and Helianthus debilis subsp. tardiflorus (pages 220–221)

Leonardo Velasco, Begona Pérez-Vich, Ahmed A. M. Yassein, Chao-Chien Jan and José M. Fernández-Martínez


Additional pea EST-SSR markers for comparative mapping in pea (Pisum sativum L.) (pages 222–226)

Jason De Caire , Clarice J. Coyne, Sarah Brumett and Jeffry L. Shultz


Genomic variation of new cultivars selected from distant hybridization in Lilium (pages 227–230)

Xianxian Zhang, Guiling Ren, Kehu Li, Guixue Zhou and Shujun Zhou


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Plant Biotechnology Journal - 9 (6-9), 2011

Plant Biotechnology Journal - 9 (6), 2011



Contents:

Special Section: Chloroplast Biotechnology


Immunogenicity of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 p24 and a p24-Nef fusion protein following subcutaneous and oral administration in mice (pages 629–638)

Nuria Gonzalez-Rabade, Edward G. McGowan, Fei Zhou, Matthew S. McCabe, Ralph Bock, Philip J. Dix, John C. Gray and Julian K-C. Ma


Tobacco plastidial thioredoxins as modulators of recombinant protein production in transgenic chloroplasts (pages 639–650)

Ruth Sanz-Barrio, Alicia Fernández-San Millán, Patricia Corral-Martínez, José M. Seguí-Simarro and Inmaculada Farran


Plastid expression of a double-pentameric vaccine candidate containing human papillomavirus-16 L1 antigen fused with LTB as adjuvant: transplastomic plants show pleiotropic phenotypes (pages 651–660)

Mohammad T. Waheed, Nadja Thönes, Martin Müller, Syed W. Hassan, Johanna Gottschamel, Elke Lössl, Hans-Peter Kaul and Andreas G. Lössl


Tobacco chloroplast transformants expressing genes encoding dehydroascorbate reductase, glutathione reductase, and glutathione-S-transferase, exhibit altered anti-oxidant metabolism and improved abiotic stress tolerance (pages 661–673)

Bénédicte Le Martret, Miranda Poage, Karen Shiel, Gregory D. Nugent and Philip J. Dix


Improved heterologous protein expression in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through promoter and 5' untranslated region optimization (pages 674–683)

Beth A. Rasala, Machiko Muto, Joseph Sullivan and Stephen P. Mayfield


Original articles


Reversible male sterility in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) by artificial microRNA-mediated silencing of general transcription factor genes (pages 684–692)

Laura Toppino, Maarten Kooiker, Matias Lindner, Ludovico Dreni, Giuseppe L. Rotino and Martin M. Kater


Only half the transcriptomic differences between resistant genetically modified and conventional rice are associated with the transgene (pages 693–702)

Maria Montero, Anna Coll, Anna Nadal, Joaquima Messeguer and Maria Pla


Improved foreign gene expression in plants using a virus-encoded suppressor of RNA silencing modified to be developmentally harmless (pages 703–712)

Pooja Saxena, Yi-Cheng Hsieh, Veria Y. Alvarado, Frank Sainsbury, Keith Saunders, George P. Lomonossoff and Herman B. Scholthof


Site-specific gene integration in rice genome mediated by the FLP–FRT recombination system (pages 713–721)

Soumen Nandy and Vibha Srivastava


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Plant Biotechnology Journal - 9 (7), 2011



Contents:

Original articles


RNAi trigger fragment truncation attenuates soybean FAD2-1 transcript suppression and yields intermediate oil phenotypes (pages 723–728)

Nicholas Wagner, Andrew Mroczka, Peter D. Roberts, William Schreckengost and Toni Voelker


Antihypertensive activity of transgenic rice seed containing an 18-repeat novokinin peptide localized in the nucleolus of endosperm cells (pages 729–735)

Yuhya Wakasa, Hui Zhao, Sakiko Hirose, Daiki Yamauchi, Yuko Yamada, Lijun Yang, Kousaku Ohinata, Masaaki Yoshikawa and Fumio Takaiwa


Generation of chimeric repressors that confer salt tolerance in Arabidopsis and rice (pages 736–746)

Tomomi Mito, Motoaki Seki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Masaru Ohme-Takagi and Kyoko Matsui


Cytokinin-mediated source/sink modifications improve drought tolerance and increase grain yield in rice under water-stress (pages 747–758)

Zvi Peleg, Maria Reguera, Ellen Tumimbang, Harkamal Walia and Eduardo Blumwald


Trade-offs between biomass growth and inducible biosynthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate in transgenic poplar (pages 759–767)

David A. Dalton, Cathleen Ma, Shreya Shrestha, Peter Kitin and Steven H. Strauss


Sequencing and assembly of low copy and genic regions of isolated Triticum aestivum chromosome arm 7DS (pages 768–775)

Paul J. Berkman, Adam Skarshewski, Michał T. Lorenc, Kaitao Lai, Chris Duran, Edmund Y.S. Ling, Jiri Stiller, Lars Smits, Michael Imelfort, Sahana Manoli, Megan McKenzie, Marie Kubaláková, Hana Šimková, Jacqueline Batley, Delphine Fleury, Jaroslav Doležel and David Edwards


Plant production of anti-ß-glucan antibodies for immunotherapy of fungal infections in humans (pages 776–787)

Cristina Capodicasa, Paola Chiani, Carla Bromuro, Flavia De Bernardis, Marcello Catellani, Angelina S. Palma, Yan Liu, Ten Feizi, Antonio Cassone, Eugenio Benvenuto and Antonella Torosantucci


Temporal and spatial control of transgene expression using a heat-inducible promoter in transgenic wheat (pages 788–796)

Jacqueline Freeman, Caroline A. Sparks, Jevon West, Peter R. Shewry and Huw D. Jones


Virus-induced gene silencing can persist for more than 2 years and also be transmitted to progeny seedlings in Nicotiana benthamiana and tomato (pages 797–806)

Muthappa Senthil-Kumar and Kirankumar S. Mysore


Expression of an immunogenic Ebola immune complex in Nicotiana benthamiana (pages 807–816)

Waranyoo Phoolcharoen, Seong H. Bhoo, Huafang Lai, Julian Ma, Charles J. Arntzen, Qiang Chen and Hugh S. Mason


Addendum


Addendum (page 817)



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Plant Biotechnology Journal - 9 (8), 2011



Contents:

Review article


Exploiting natural variation to identify insect-resistance genes (pages 819–825)

Colette Broekgaarden, Tjeerd A.L. Snoeren, Marcel Dicke and Ben Vosman


Original articles


Introduction of the ZmDof1 gene into rice enhances carbon and nitrogen assimilation under low-nitrogen conditions (pages 826–837)

Tomohiro Kurai, Masataka Wakayama, Tomomi Abiko, Shuichi Yanagisawa, Naohiro Aoki and Ryu Ohsugi


Rice plants expressing the moss sodium pumping ATPase PpENA1 maintain greater biomass production under salt stress (pages 838–847)

Andrew Jacobs, Kristina Ford, Jodie Kretschmer and Mark Tester


Pectin engineering to modify product quality in potato (pages 848–856)

Heather A. Ross, Wayne L. Morris, Laurence J.M. Ducreux, Robert D. Hancock, Susan R. Verrall, Jenny A Morris, Gregory A. Tucker, Derek Stewart, Pete E. Hedley, Gordon J. McDougall and Mark A. Taylor


Transgenic maize plants expressing the Totivirus antifungal protein, KP4, are highly resistant to corn smut (pages 857–864)

Aron Allen, Emir Islamovic, Jagdeep Kaur, Scott Gold, Dilip Shah and Thomas J. Smith


Bio-available zinc in rice seeds is increased by activation tagging of nicotianamine synthase (pages 865–873)

Sichul Lee, Daniel P. Persson, Thomas H. Hansen, Soren Husted, Jan K. Schjoerring, You-Sun Kim, Un Sil Jeon, Yoon-Keun Kim, Yusuke Kakei, Hiroshi Masuda, Naoko K. Nishizawa and Gynheung An


Increasing the energy density of vegetative tissues by diverting carbon from starch to oil biosynthesis in transgenic Arabidopsis (pages 874–883)

Sanjaya, Timothy P. Durrett, Sean E. Weise and Christoph Benning


Accumulation of recombinant cellobiohydrolase and endoglucanase in the leaves of mature transgenic sugar cane (pages 884–896)

Mark D. Harrison, Jason Geijskes, Heather D. Coleman, Kylie Shand, Mark Kinkema, Anthony Palupe, Rachael Hassall, Manuel Sainz, Robyn Lloyd, Stacy Miles and James L. Dale


Transgenic Pm3b wheat lines show resistance to powdery mildew in the field (pages 897–910)

Susanne Brunner, Severine Hurni, Gerhard Herren, Olena Kalinina, Simone von Burg, Simon L. Zeller, Bernhard Schmid, Michael Winzeler and Beat Keller


Non-food/feed seeds as biofactories for the high-yield production of recombinant pharmaceuticals (pages 911–921)

Francesca Morandini, Linda Avesani, Luisa Bortesi, Bart Van Droogenbroeck, Kirsten De Wilde, Elsa Arcalis, Flavia Bazzoni, Luca Santi, Annalisa Brozzetti, Alberto Falorni, Eva Stoger, Ann Depicker and Mario Pezzotti


Large-scale transcriptome analysis in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an orphan legume crop of the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa (pages 922–931)

Pavana J. Hiremath, Andrew Farmer, Steven B. Cannon, Jimmy Woodward, Himabindu Kudapa, Reetu Tuteja, Ashish Kumar, Amindala BhanuPrakash, Benjamin Mulaosmanovic, Neha Gujaria, Laxmanan Krishnamurthy, Pooran M. Gaur, Polavarapu B. KaviKishor, Trushar Shah, Ramamurthy Srinivasan, Marc Lohse, Yongli Xiao, Christopher D. Town, Douglas R. Cook, Gregory D. May and Rajeev K. Varshney


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Plant Biotechnology Journal - 9 (9), 2011



Contents:

Editorial


In consideration of GMOs: a virtual special issue of the Plant Biotechnology Journal (pages 933–935)

Dominique Michaud


Review article


Biotechnological application of functional genomics towards plant-parasitic nematode control (pages 936–944)

Jiarui Li, Timothy C. Todd, Junghoon Lee and Harold N. Trick


Research articles


Attitudes of European farmers towards GM crop adoption (pages 945–957)

Francisco J. Areal, Laura Riesgo and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo


Peroxisomal polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis is a promising strategy for bioplastic production in high biomass crops (pages 958–969)

Kimberley Tilbrook, Leigh Gebbie, Peer M. Schenk, Yves Poirier and Stevens M. Brumbley


Coordinate expression of multiple proteins in plant cells by exploiting endogenous kex2p-like protease activity (pages 970–981)

Bei Zhang, Madhusudhan Rapolu, Leyang Huang and Wei Wen Su


Prevention of allergic asthma by vaccination with transgenic rice seed expressing mite allergen: induction of allergen-specific oral tolerance without bystander suppression (pages 982–990)

Kazuya Suzuki, Osamu Kaminuma, Lijun Yang, Toshiro Takai, Akio Mori, Makiko Umezu-Goto, Takayuki Ohtomo, Yasushi Ohmachi, Yuko Noda, Sakiko Hirose, Ko Okumura, Hideoki Ogawa, Kazuko Takada, Masatomo Hirasawa, Takachika Hiroi and Fumio Takaiwa


Recombinant plant-expressed tumour-associated MUC1 peptide is immunogenic and capable of breaking tolerance in MUC1.Tg mice (pages 991–1001)

Julia Pinkhasov, M. Lucrecia Alvarez, M. Manuela Rigano, Khanrat Piensook, Dalia Larios, Martin Pabst, Josephine Grass, Pinku Mukherjee, Sandra J. Gendler, Amanda M. Walmsley and Hugh S. Mason


Mutations in the F-box gene LARGER PANICLE improve the panicle architecture and enhance the grain yield in rice (pages 1002–1013)

Ming Li, Ding Tang, Kejian Wang, Xinru Wu, Lili Lu, Hengxiu Yu, Minghong Gu, Changjie Yan and Zhukuan Cheng


Engineering virus resistance using a modified potato gene (pages 1014–1021)

Jason Cavatorta, Kari W. Perez, Stewart M. Gray, Joyce Van Eck, Inhwa Yeam and Molly Jahn


Dynamic 13C/1H NMR imaging uncovers sugar allocation in the living seed (pages 1022–1037)

Gerd Melkus, Hardy Rolletschek, Johannes Fuchs, Volodymyr Radchuk, Eva Grafahrend-Belau, Nese Sreenivasulu, Twan Rutten, Diana Weier, Nicolas Heinzel, Falk Schreiber, Thomas Altmann, Peter M Jakob and Ljudmilla Borisjuk


GhHmgB3 deficiency deregulates proliferation and differentiation of cells during somatic embryogenesis in cotton (pages 1038–1048)

Lisong Hu, Xiyan Yang, Daojun Yuan, Fanchang Zeng and Xianlong Zhang


Enhancing the expression of starch synthase class IV results in increased levels of both transitory and long-term storage starch (pages 1049–1060)

Francisco M. Gámez-Arjona, Jun Li, Sandy Raynaud, Edurne Baroja-Fernández, Francisco J. Munoz, Miroslav Ovecka, Paula Ragel, Abdellatif Bahaji, Javier Pozueta-Romero and Ángel Mérida


Human alfa-mannosidase produced in transgenic tobacco plants is processed in human ?-mannosidosis cell lines (pages 1061–1073)

Francesca De Marchis, Chiara Balducci, Andrea Pompa, Hilde M. F. Riise Stensland, Marco Guaragno, Rita Pagiotti, Anna R. Menghini, Emanuele Persichetti, Tommaso Beccari and Michele Bellucci


Discovery of polymorphisms in starch-related genes in rice germplasm by amplification of pooled DNA and deeply parallel sequencing (pages 1074–1085)

Ardashir Kharabian-Masouleh, Daniel L. E. Waters, Russell F. Reinke and Robert J. Henry


Transcript-specific, single-nucleotide polymorphism discovery and linkage analysis in hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (pages 1086–1099)

Alexandra M. Allen, Gary L.A. Barker, Simon T. Berry, Jane A. Coghill, Rhian Gwilliam, Susan Kirby, Phil Robinson, Rachel C. Brenchley, Rosalinda D’Amore, Neil McKenzie, Darren Waite, Anthony Hall, Michael Bevan, Neil Hall and Keith J. Edwards


Global and grain-specific accumulation of glycoside hydrolase family 10 xylanases in transgenic maize (Zea mays) (pages 1100–1108)

Benjamin N. Gray, Oleg Bougri, Alvar R. Carlson, Judy Meissner, Shihao Pan, Matthew H. Parker, Dongcheng Zhang, Vladimir Samoylov, Nathan A. Ekborg and R. Michael Raab


Production of recombinant human granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor in rice cell suspension culture with a human-like N-glycan structure (pages 1109–1119)

Yun-Ji Shin, Yun-Jo Chong, Moon-Sik Yang and Tae-Ho Kwon


Differential N-glycosylation of a monoclonal antibody expressed in tobacco leaves with and without endoplasmic reticulum retention signal apparently induces similar in vivo stability in mice (pages 1120–1130)

Ada Triguero, Gleysin Cabrera, Meilyn Rodríguez, Jeny Soto, Yasser Zamora, Marlene Pérez, Mark R. Wormald and José A. Cremata


Characterizing homologues of crop domestication genes in poorly described wild relatives by high-throughput sequencing of whole genomes (pages 1131–1140)

Sylvia Malory, Frances M. Shapter, Martin S. Elphinstone, Ian H. Chivers and Robert J. Henry


Apoptosis-related genes confer resistance to Fusarium wilt in transgenic ‘Lady Finger’ bananas (pages 1141–1148)

Jean-Yves Paul, Douglas K. Becker, Martin B. Dickman, Robert M. Harding, Harjeet K. Khanna and James L. Dale


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (7-8), 2011

Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (7), 2011



Contents:

Letters

Vania Yotova, Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Claudia Moreau, Elias Gbeha, Kristine Hovhannesyan, Stephane Bourgeois, Sandra Bédarida, Luisa Azevedo, Antonio Amorim, Tamara Sarkisian, Patrice Hodonou Avogbe, Nicodeme Chabi, Mamoudou Hama Dicko, Emile Sabiba Kou' Santa Amouzou, Ambaliou Sanni, June Roberts-Thomson, Barry Boettcher, Rodney J. Scott, and Damian Labuda
An X-Linked Haplotype of Neandertal Origin Is Present Among All Non-African Populations

Willie J. Swanson, Jan E. Aagaard, Victor D. Vacquier, Magnus Monné, Hamed Sadat Al Hosseini, and Luca Jovine
The Molecular Basis of Sex: Linking Yeast to Human

María Méndez-Lago, Casey M. Bergman, Beatriz de Pablos, Alan Tracey, Siobhan L. Whitehead, and Alfredo Villasante
A Large Palindrome With Interchromosomal Gene Duplications in the Pericentromeric Region of the D. melanogaster Y Chromosome


Research Articles

OraLee H. Branch, Patrick L. Sutton, Carmen Barnes, Juan Carlos Castro, Julie Hussin, Philip Awadalla, and Gisely Hijar
Plasmodium falciparum Genetic Diversity Maintained and Amplified Over 5 Years of a Low Transmission Endemic in the Peruvian Amazon

Simon H. Martin, Brenda D. Wingfield, Michael J. Wingfield, and Emma T. Steenkamp
Causes and Consequences of Variability in Peptide Mating Pheromones of Ascomycete Fungi

Masaya Hayashi, Brenda Schilke, Jaroslaw Marszalek (Jarosław Marszałek), Barry Williams, and Elizabeth A. Craig
Ancient Gene Duplication Provided a Key Molecular Step for Anaerobic Growth of Baker's Yeast

Andrew H. Lloyd and Jeremy N. Timmis
The Origin and Characterization of New Nuclear Genes Originating from a Cytoplasmic Organellar Genome

Michael L. Hayes and R. Michael Mulligan
Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins Constrain Genome Evolution in Chloroplasts

Stefan J.Y. Laurent, Annegret Werzner, Laurent Excoffier, and Wolfgang Stephan
Approximate Bayesian Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster Polymorphism Data Reveals a Recent Colonization of Southeast Asia

Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Anne-Gaelle Lafont, and Jean-Yves Sire
The Evolution of Milk Casein Genes from Tooth Genes before the Origin of Mammals

Michelle Déquard-Chablat, Carole H. Sellem, Pawel Golik, Frédérique Bidard, Alexandre Martos, Mailis Bietenhader, Jean-Paul di Rago, Annie Sainsard-Chanet, Sylvie Hermann-Le Denmat, and Véronique Contamine
Two Nuclear Life Cycle–Regulated Genes Encode Interchangeable Subunits c of Mitochondrial ATP Synthase in Podospora anserina

Etienne Delannoy, Sota Fujii, Catherine Colas des Francs - Small, Mark Brundrett, and Ian Small
Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes

Courtney W. Stairs, Andrew J. Roger, and Vladimir Hampl
Eukaryotic Pyruvate Formate Lyase and Its Activating Enzyme Were Acquired Laterally from a Firmicute

Marc Gottschling, Markus Göker, Alexandros Stamatakis, Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds, Ingo Nindl, and Ignacio G. Bravo
Quantifying the Phylodynamic Forces Driving Papillomavirus Evolution

Nicholas Price, Reed A. Cartwright, Niv Sabath, Dan Graur, and Ricardo B.R. Azevedo
Neutral Evolution of Robustness in Drosophila microRNA Precursors

Eric Samarut, Ismail Amal, Gabriel V. Markov, Roland Stote, Annick Dejaegere, Vincent Laudet, and Cécile Rochette-Egly
Evolution of Nuclear Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha (RAR?) Phosphorylation Sites. Serine Gain Provides Fine-Tuned Regulation

Bradley R. Parry and Daniel H. Shain
Manipulations of AMP Metabolic Genes Increase Growth Rate and Cold Tolerance in Escherichia coli: Implications for Psychrophilic Evolution

Daniel P. Woods, Chelsea L. Hope, and Simon T. Malcomber
Phylogenomic Analyses of the BARREN STALK1/LAX PANICLE1 (BA1/LAX1) Genes and Evidence for Their Roles During Axillary Meristem Development

Mario dos Reis and Ziheng Yang
Approximate Likelihood Calculation on a Phylogeny for Bayesian Estimation of Divergence Times


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (8), 2011



Contents:

Research Articles

Ivan Molineris, Elena Grassi, Ugo Ala, Ferdinando Di Cunto, and Paolo Provero
Evolution of Promoter Affinity for Transcription Factors in the Human Lineage

Carlos E. Arboleda-Bustos and Carmen Segarra
The Dca Gene Involved in Cold Adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster Arose by Duplication of the Ancestral regucalcin Gene

Benoit Nabholz, Axel Künstner, Rui Wang, Erich D. Jarvis, and Hans Ellegren
Dynamic Evolution of Base Composition: Causes and Consequences in Avian Phylogenomics

Sung K. Kim, Lucia Carbone, Celine Becquet, Alan R. Mootnick, David Jiang Li, Pieter J. de Jong, and Jeffrey D. Wall
Patterns of Genetic Variation Within and Between Gibbon Species

Andre G. Wallace, Don Detweiler, and Stephen W. Schaeffer
Evolutionary History of the Third Chromosome Gene Arrangements of Drosophila pseudoobscura Inferred from Inversion Breakpoints

Jeffrey D. Wall, Rong Jiang, Christopher Gignoux, Gary K. Chen, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, and Paul Marjoram
Genetic Variation in Native Americans, Inferred from Latino SNP and Resequencing Data

Eric Y. Durand, Nick Patterson, David Reich, and Montgomery Slatkin
Testing for Ancient Admixture between Closely Related Populations

Bruno Nevado, Varvara Fazalova, Thierry Backeljau, Mark Hanssens, and Erik Verheyen
Repeated Unidirectional Introgression of Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Between Four Congeneric Tanganyikan Cichlids

Yi-Wah Chan, Remus Mohr, Andrew D. Millard, Antony B. Holmes, Anthony W. Larkum, Anna L. Whitworth, Nicholas H. Mann, David J. Scanlan, Wolfgang R. Hess, and Martha R. J. Clokie
Discovery of Cyanophage Genomes Which Contain Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase

Alexander Nater, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Natasha Arora, Carel P. van Schaik, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Erik P. Willems, Ian Singleton, Serge A. Wich, Benoit Goossens, Kristin S. Warren, Ernst J. Verschoor, Dyah Perwitasari-Farajallah, Joko Pamungkas, and Michael Krützen
Sex-Biased Dispersal and Volcanic Activities Shaped Phylogeographic Patterns of Extant Orangutans (genus: Pongo)

Pierre Kerner, Sandie M. Degnan, Lauriane Marchand, Bernard M. Degnan, and Michel Vervoort
Evolution of RNA-Binding Proteins in Animals: Insights from Genome-Wide Analysis in the Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica

Huai-Chun Wang, Edward Susko, and Andrew J. Roger
Fast Statistical Tests for Detecting Heterotachy in Protein Evolution

Ruxandra I. Molnar, Gabi Bartelmes, Iris Dinkelacker, Hanh Witte, and Ralf J. Sommer
Mutation Rates and Intraspecific Divergence of the Mitochondrial Genome of Pristionchus pacificus

Chun-Long Chen, Lauranne Duquenne, Benjamin Audit, Guillaume Guilbaud, Aurélien Rappailles, Antoine Baker, Maxime Huvet, Yves d'Aubenton-Carafa, Olivier Hyrien, Alain Arneodo, and Claude Thermes
Replication-Associated Mutational Asymmetry in the Human Genome

Tobias Warnecke and Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Function-Specific Accelerations in Rates of Sequence Evolution Suggest Predictable Epistatic Responses to Reduced Effective Population Size

Chungoo Park and Jianzhi Zhang
Genome-Wide Evolutionary Conservation of N-Glycosylation Sites

Liang Yang and Brandon S. Gaut
Factors that Contribute to Variation in Evolutionary Rate among Arabidopsis Genes

Jana Szabová, Petr Růžička, Zdeněk Verner, Vladimír Hampl, and Julius Lukeš
Experimental Examination of EFL and MATX Eukaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfers: Coexistence of Mutually Exclusive Transcripts Predates Functional Rescue

Rob M. de Graaf, Guenola Ricard, Theo A. van Alen, Isabel Duarte, Bas E. Dutilh, Carola Burgtorf, Jan W. P. Kuiper, Georg W. M. van der Staay, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Martijn A. Huynen, and Johannes H. P. Hackstein
The Organellar Genome and Metabolic Potential of the Hydrogen-Producing Mitochondrion of Nyctotherus ovalis

Siu F. Lee, Ying Chen, Aiden K. Varan, Choon W. Wee, Lea Rako, Jason K. Axford, Robert T. Good, Mark J. Blacket, Caroline Reuter, Linda Partridge, and Ary A. Hoffmann
Molecular Basis of Adaptive Shift in Body Size in Drosophila melanogaster: Functional and Sequence Analyses of the Dca Gene

Dror Hilman and Uri Gat
The Evolutionary History of YAP and the Hippo/YAP Pathway

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New Phytologist - 191 (1-4), 2011

New Phytologist - 191 (1-2), 2011




Contents:

Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant respiration in variable environments
Atkin, Owen K.

Pushing back in time: the role of fire in plant evolution
Midgley, Jeremy; Bond, William

The hairy problem of epigenetics in evolution
Richards, Christina L.; Wendel, Jonathan F.

Metabolic fluxes, carbon isotope fractionation and respiration - lessons to be learned from plant biochemistry
Werner, Roland A.; Buchmann, Nina; Siegwolf, Rolf T. W.; Kornexl, Barbara E.; Gessler, Arthur

How do we improve Earth system models? Integrating Earth system models, ecosystem models, experiments and long-term data
Leuzinger, Sebastian; Quinn Thomas, R.

Genes to ecosystems: exploring the frontiers of ecology with one of the smallest biological units
Wymore, Adam S.; Keeley, Annika T. H.; Yturralde, Kasey M.; Schroer, Melanie L.; Propper, Catherine R.; Whitham, Thomas G.

The evolution of RNA editing and pentatricopeptide repeat genes
Fujii, Sota; Small, Ian

Arsenic biotransformation and volatilization in transgenic rice
Meng, Xiang-Yan; Qin, Jie; Wang, Li-Hong; Duan, Gui-Lan; Sun, Guo-Xin; Wu, Hui-Lan; Chu, Cheng-Cai; Ling, Hong-Qing; Rosen, Barry P.; Zhu, Yong-Guan

cGMP-dependent ABA-induced stomatal closure in the ABA-insensitive Arabidopsis mutant abi1-1
Dubovskaya, Lyudmila V.; Bakakina, Yulia S.; Kolesneva, Ekaterina V.; Sodel, Dmitry L.; McAinsh, Martin R.; Hetherington, Alistair M.; Volotovski, Igor D.

A defective ABC transporter of the MRP family, responsible for the bean lpa1 mutation, affects the regulation of the phytic acid pathway, reduces seed myo-inositol and alters ABA sensitivity
Panzeri, Dario; Cassani, Elena; Doria, Enrico; Tagliabue, Giovanni; Forti, Luca; Campion, Bruno; Bollini, Roberto; Brearley, Charles A.; Pilu, Roberto; Nielsen, Erik; Sparvoli, Francesca

Vacuolar two-pore K+ channels act as vacuolar osmosensors
Maathuis, Frans J. M.

Deubiquitinating enzymes AtUBP12 and AtUBP13 and their tobacco homologue NtUBP12 are negative regulators of plant immunity
Ewan, Richard; Pangestuti, Ratih; Thornber, Sarah; Craig, Adam; Carr, Craig; O'Donnell, Liz; Zhang, Cunjn; Sadanandom, Ari

Different roles of Enhanced Disease Susceptibility1 (EDS1) bound to and dissociated from Phytoalexin Deficient4 (PAD4) in Arabidopsis immunity
Rietz, Steffen; Stamm, Anika; Malonek, Stefan; Wagner, Stephan; Becker, Dieter; Medina-Escobar, Nieves; Corina Vlot, A.; Feys, Bart J.; Niefind, Karsten; Parker, Jane E.

Effects of selenium hyperaccumulation on plant-plant interactions: evidence for elemental allelopathy?
El Mehdawi, Ali F.; Quinn, Colin F.; Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth A. H.

Changes in the structural composition and reactivity of Acer rubrum leaf litter tannins exposed to warming and altered precipitation: climatic stress-induced tannins are more reactive
Tharayil, Nishanth; Suseela, Vidya; Triebwasser, Daniella J.; Preston, Caroline M.; Gerard, Patrick D.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.

Intra-leaf gradients of photoinhibition induced by different color lights: implications for the dual mechanisms of photoinhibition and for the application of conventional chlorophyll fluorometers
Oguchi, Riichi; Douwstra, Peter; Fujita, Takashi; Chow, Wah Soon; Terashima, Ichiro

Seasonal patterns of carbon allocation to respiratory pools in 60-yr-old deciduous (Fagus sylvatica) and evergreen (Picea abies) trees assessed via whole-tree stable carbon isotope labeling
Kuptz, Daniel; Fleischmann, Frank; Matyssek, Rainer; Grams, Thorsten E. E.

Introducing short roots in a desert perennial: anatomy and spatiotemporal foraging responses to increased precipitation
Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Casper, Brenda B.

Banksia born to burn
He, Tianhua; Lamont, Byron B.; Downes, Katherine S.

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome
Lehmann, Caroline E. R.; Archibald, Sally A.; Hoffmann, William A.; Bond, William J.

Life on the edge: rare and restricted episodes of a pan-tropical mutualism adapting to drier climates
McLeish, Michael; Guo, Danni; van Noort, Simon; Midgley, Guy

Parental effects modulate seed longevity: exploring parental and offspring phenotypes to elucidate pre-zygotic environmental influences
Kochanek, Jitka; Steadman, Kathryn J.; Probert, Robin J.; Adkins, Steve W.

Ascorbate peroxidase-related (APx-R) is a new heme-containing protein functionally associated with ascorbate peroxidase but evolutionarily divergent
Lazzarotto, Fernanda; Teixeira, Felipe Karam; Rosa, Silvia Barcelos; Dunand, Christophe; Fernandes, Claudia Lemelle; de Vasconcelos Fontenele, Adilton; Silveira, Joaquim Albenisio Gomes; Verli, Hugo; Margis, Rogério; Margis-Pinheiro, Marcia

Differential regulation of a MYB transcription factor is correlated with transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trichome density in Mimulus guttatus
Scoville, Alison G.; Barnett, Laryssa L.; Bodbyl-Roels, Sarah; Kelly, John K.; Hileman, Lena C.

Predictable patterns of constraint among anthocyanin-regulating transcription factors in Ipomoea
Streisfeld, Matthew A.; Liu, Danya; Rausher, Mark D.

Complex evolution of S5, a major reproductive barrier regulator, in the cultivated rice Oryza sativa and its wild relatives
Du, Hongyi; Ouyang, Yidan; Zhang, Chengjun; Zhang, Qifa

DNA barcoding of lichenized fungi demonstrates high identification success in a floristic context
Kelly, Laura J.; Hollingsworth, Peter M.; Coppins, Brian J.; Ellis, Christopher J.; Harrold, Paul; Tosh, James; Yahr, Rebecca

An experimental method to facilitate the identification of hybrid sporophytes in the moss Physcomitrella patens using fluorescent tagged lines
Perroud, Pierre-François; Cove, David J.; Quatrano, Ralph S.; McDaniel, Stuart F.


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New Phytologist - 191 (3), 2011




Contents:

The latitudinal herbivory-defence hypothesis takes a detour on the map
Johnson, Marc T. J.; Rasmann, Sergio

Where are all the undocumented fungal species? A study of Mortierella demonstrates the need for sequence-based classification
Hibbett, David; Glotzer, Dylan

Photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and remote sensing of plant CO2 uptake
Penuelas, Josep; Garbulsky, Martin F.; Filella, Iolanda

Modelling the size and composition of fruit, grain and seed by process-based simulation models
Martre, Pierre; Bertin, Nadia; Salon, Christophe; Génard, Michel

The photosynthetic plasticity of crassulacean acid metabolism: an evolutionary innovation for sustainable productivity in a changing world
Borland, Anne M.; Barrera Zambrano, V. Andrea; Ceusters, Johan; Shorrock, Katherine

Arabidopsis thaliana ORGAN SIZE RELATED1 regulates organ growth and final organ size in orchestration with ARGOS and ARL
Feng, Guanping; Qin, Zhixiang; Yan, Jingzhou; Zhang, Xiaoran; Hu, Yuxin

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of a NAC1 transcription factor in Medicago truncatula roots
D'haeseleer, Katrien; Den Herder, Griet; Laffont, Carole; Plet, Julie; Mortier, Virginie; Lelandais-Briere, Christine; De Bodt, Stefanie; De Keyser, Annick; Crespi, Martin; Holsters, Marcelle; Frugier, Florian; Goormachtig, Sofie

Overexpression of PhEXPA1 increases cell size, modifies cell wall polymer composition and affects the timing of axillary meristem development in Petunia hybrida
Zenoni, Sara; Fasoli, Marianna; Tornielli, Giovanni Battista; Dal Santo, Silvia; Sanson, Andrea; de Groot, Peter; Sordo, Sara; Citterio, Sandra; Monti, Francesca; Pezzotti, Mario

SHORT INTERNODES-like genes regulate shoot growth and xylem proliferation in Populus
Zawaski, Christine; Kadmiel, Mahita; Ma, Cathleen; Gai, Ying; Jiang, Xiangning; Strauss, Steve H.; Busov, Victor B.

Heat-induced chaperone activity of serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 enhances thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana
Park, Jin Ho; Lee, Sun Yong; Kim, Woe Yeon; Jung, Young Jun; Chae, Ho Byoung; Jung, Hyun Suk; Kang, Chang Ho; Shin, Mi Rim; Kim, Sun Young; Su'udi, Mukhamad; Yun, Dae Jin; Lee, Kyun Oh; Kim, Min Gab; Lee, Sang Yeol

Induction of systemic stress tolerance by brassinosteroid in Cucumis sativus
Xia, Xiao-Jian; Zhou, Yan-Hong; Ding, Ju; Shi, Kai; Asami, Tadao; Chen, Zhixiang; Yu, Jing-Quan

Rice A20/AN1 zinc-finger containing stress-associated proteins (SAP1/11) and a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (OsRLCK253) interact via A20 zinc-finger and confer abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plant
Giri, Jitender; Vij, Shubha; Dansana, Prasant K.; Tyagi, Akhilesh K.

The sucrose-regulated Arabidopsis transcription factor bZIP11 reprograms metabolism and regulates trehalose metabolism
Ma, Jingkun; Hanssen, Micha; Lundgren, Krister; Hernández, Lázaro; Delatte, Thierry; Ehlert, Andrea; Liu, Chun-Ming; Schluepmann, Henriette; Dröge-Laser, Wolfgang; Moritz, Thomas; Smeekens, Sjef; Hanson, Johannes

A zinc finger protein Tsip1 controls Cucumber mosaic virus infection by interacting with the replication complex on vacuolar membranes of the tobacco plant
Huh, Sung Un; Kim, Min Jung; Ham, Byung-Kook; Paek, Kyung-Hee

Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants
Gilroy, Eleanor M.; Breen, Susan; Whisson, Stephen C.; Squires, Julie; Hein, Ingo; Kaczmarek, Maciej; Turnbull, Dionne; Boevink, Petra C.; Lokossou, Anoma; Cano, Liliana M.; Morales, Juan; Avrova, Anna O.; Pritchard, Leighton; Randall, Eva; Lees, Alison; Govers, Francine; van West, Pieter; Kamoun, Sophien; Vleeshouwers, Vivianne G. A. A.; Cooke, David E. L.; Birch, Paul R. J.

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes
Angela T. Moles, Ian R. Wallis, William J. Foley, David I. Warton, James C. Stegen, Alejandro J. Bisigato, Lucrecia Cella-Pizarro, Connie J. Clark, Philippe S. Cohen, William K. Cornwell, Will Edwards, Rasmus Ejrnas, Therany Gonzales-Ojeda, Bente J. Graae, Gregory Hay, Fainess C. Lumbwe, Benjamín Magana-Rodríguez, Ben D. Moore, Pablo L. Peri, John R. Poulsen, Ruan Veldtman, Hugo von Zeipel, Nigel R. Andrew, Sarah L. Boulter, Elizabeth T. Borer, Florencia Fernández Campón, Moshe Coll, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, Jane De Gabriel, Enrique Jurado, Line A. Kyhn, Bill Low, Christa P. H. Mulder, Kathryn Reardon-Smith, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez, Eric W. Seabloom, Peter A. Vesk, An van Cauter, Matthew S. Waldram, Zheng Zheng, Pedro G. Blendinger, Brian J. Enquist, Jose M. Facelli, Tiffany Knight, Jonathan D. Majer, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Peter McQuillan and Lynda D. Prior

Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences
Nagy, László G.; Petkovits, Tamás; Kovács, Gábor M.; Voigt, Kerstin; Vágvölgyi, Csaba; Papp, Tamás

Lichen responses to nitrogen and phosphorus additions can be explained by the different symbiont responses
Johansson, Otilia; Olofsson, Johan; Giesler, Reiner; Palmqvist, Kristin

Growth and community responses of alpine dwarf shrubs to in situ CO2 enrichment and soil warming
Dawes, Melissa A.; Hagedorn, Frank; Zumbrunn, Thomas; Handa, Ira Tanya; Hättenschwiler, Stephan; Wipf, Sonja; Rixen, Christian

The statistical mechanics of community assembly and species distribution
Kelly, Colleen K.; Blundell, Stephen J.; Bowler, Michael G.; Fox, Gordon A.; Harvey, Paul H.; Lomas, Mark R.; Ian Woodward, F.

Multiple mechanisms underlie rapid expansion of an invasive alien plant
Wang, Rui; Wang, Jin-Feng; Qiu, Zhi-Jing; Meng, Bin; Wan, Fang-Hao; Wang, Yin-Zheng

Glyphosate-drift but not herbivory alters the rate of transgene flow from single and stacked trait transgenic canola (Brassica napus) to nontransgenic B. napus and B. rapa
Londo, Jason P.; Bollman, Michael A.; Sagers, Cynthia L.; Lee, E. Henry; Watrud, Lidia S.

Phylogeny-based developmental analyses illuminate evolution of inflorescence architectures in dogwoods (Cornus s.l., Cornaceae)
Feng, Chun-Miao; Xiang, Qiu-Yun (Jenny); Franks, Robert G.

Petal-specific subfunctionalization of an APETALA3 paralog in the Ranunculales and its implications for petal evolution
Sharma, Bharti; Guo, Chunce; Kong, Hongzhi; Kramer, Elena M.

Polyploid formation pathways have an impact on genetic rearrangements in resynthesized Brassica napus
Szadkowski, E.; Eber, F.; Huteau, V.; Lodé, M.; Coriton, O.; Jenczewski, E.; Chevre, A. M.

A growth phenotyping pipeline for Arabidopsis thaliana integrating image analysis and rosette area modeling for robust quantification of genotype effects
Arvidsson, Samuel; Pérez-Rodríguez, Paulino; Mueller-Roeber, Bernd

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New Phytologist - 191 (4), 2011




Contents:

New insights into cell death induced by long chain bases in Arabidopsis
Michaelson, Louise V.

Gone with the wind: understanding evolutionary transitions between wind and animal pollination in the angiosperms
Friedman, Jannice

Sequencing crop genomes: approaches and applications
Jackson, Scott A.; Iwata, Aiko; Lee, Suk-Ha; Schmutz, Jeremy; Shoemaker, Randy

Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems
Polgar, Caroline A.; Primack, Richard B.

MPK6, sphinganine and the LCB2a gene from serine palmitoyltransferase are required in the signaling pathway that mediates cell death induced by long chain bases in Arabidopsis
Saucedo-García, Mariana; Guevara-García, Arturo; González-Solís, Ariadna; Cruz-García, Felipe; Vázquez-Santana, Sonia; Markham, Jonathan E.; Lozano-Rosas, M. Guadalupe; Dietrich, Charles R.; Ramos-Vega, Maricela; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Gavilanes-Ruíz, Marina

The Arabidopsis aminopeptidase LAP2 regulates plant growth, leaf longevity and stress response
Waditee-Sirisattha, Rungaroon; Shibato, Junko; Rakwal, Randeep; Sirisattha, Sophon; Hattori, Akira; Nakano, Takeshi; Takabe, Teruhiro; Tsujimoto, Masafumi

Auxin minimum defines a developmental window for lateral root initiation
Dubrovsky, Joseph G.; Napsucialy-Mendivil, Selene; Duclercq, Jérme; Cheng, Yan; Shishkova, Svetlana; Ivanchenko, Maria G.; Friml, Jiří; Murphy, Angus S.; Benková, Eva

OsSFR6 is a functional rice orthologue of SENSITIVE TO FREEZING-6 and can act as a regulator of COR gene expression, osmotic stress and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis
Wathugala, Deepthi L.; Richards, Shane A.; Knight, Heather; Knight, Marc R.

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens
Choat, Brendan; Medek, Danielle E.; Stuart, Stephanie A.; Pasquet-Kok, Jessica; Egerton, John J. G.; Salari, Hooman; Sack, Lawren; Ball, Marilyn C.

On the multi-temporal correlation between photosynthesis and soil CO2 efflux: reconciling lags and observations
Vargas, Rodrigo; Baldocchi, Dennis D.; Bahn, Michael; Hanson, Paul J.; Hosman, Kevin P.; Kulmala, Liisa; Pumpanen, Jukka; Yang, Bai

Phytotoxicity, not nitrogen immobilization, explains plant litter inhibitory effects: evidence from solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy
Bonanomi, Giuliano; Incerti, Guido; Barile, Elisa; Capodilupo, Manuela; Antignani, Vincenzo; Mingo, Antonio; Lanzotti, Virginia; Scala, Felice; Mazzoleni, Stefano

Leaf and root pectin methylesterase activity and 13C/12C stable isotopic ratio measurements of methanol emissions give insight into methanol production in Lycopersicon esculentum
Oikawa, Patricia Yoshino; Giebel, Brian M.; da Silveira Lobo O'Reilly Sternberg, Leonel; Li, Lei; Timko, Michael P.; Swart, Peter K.; Riemer, Daniel D.; Mak, John E.; Lerdau, Manuel T.

The molecular basis of quantitative variation in foliar secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus globulus
Külheim, Carsten; Yeoh, Suat Hui; Wallis, Ian R.; Laffan, Shawn; Moran, Gavin F.; Foley, William J.

C12 derivatives of the hydroperoxide lyase pathway are produced by product recycling through lipoxygenase-2 in Nicotiana attenuata leaves
Kallenbach, Mario; Gilardoni, Paola A.; Allmann, Silke; Baldwin, Ian T.; Bonaventure, Gustavo

Mining for treatment-specific and general changes in target compounds and metabolic fingerprints in response to herbivory and phytohormones in Plantago lanceolata
Sutter, Rabea; Müller, Caroline

Genetic and physiological analysis of the relationship between partial resistance to clubroot and tolerance to trehalose in Arabidopsis thaliana
Gravot, Antoine; Grillet, Louis; Wagner, Geoffrey; Jubault, Mélanie; Lariagon, Christine; Baron, Cécile; Deleu, Carole; Delourme, Régine; Bouchereau, Alain; Manzanares-Dauleux, Maria J.

Influence of cultivated landscape composition on variety resistance: an assessment based on wheat leaf rust epidemics
Papaix, Julien; Goyeau, Henriette; Du Cheyron, Philippe; Monod, Hervé; Lannou, Christian

A eukaryotic-like sulfiredoxin involved in oxidative stress responses and in the reduction of the sulfinic form of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120
Boileau, Céline; Eme, Laura; Brochier-Armanet, Céline; Janicki, Annick; Zhang, Cheng-Cai; Latifi, Amel

Rapid evolutionary divergence and ecotypic diversification of germination behavior in weedy rice populations
Xia, Han-Bing; Xia, Hui; Ellstrand, Norman C.; Yang, Chao; Lu, Bao-Rong

Transition from wind pollination to insect pollination in sedges: experimental evidence and functional traits
Wragg, Peter D.; Johnson, Steven D.

Plant resistance to mechanical stress: evidence of an avoidance-tolerance trade-off
Puijalon, Sara; Bouma, Tjeerd J.; Douady, Christophe J.; van Groenendael, Jan; Anten, Niels P. R.; Martel, Evelyne; Bornette, Gudrun

Allopolyploid origins of the Galeopsis tetraploids – revisiting Müntzing’s classical textbook example using molecular tools
Bendiksby, Mika; Tribsch, Andreas; Borgen, Liv; Trávníček, Pavel; Brysting, Anne K.

Automated analysis of three-dimensional xylem networks using high-resolution computed tomography
Brodersen, Craig R.; Lee, Eric F.; Choat, Brendan; Jansen, Steven; Phillips, Ronald J.; Shackel, Kenneth A.; McElrone, Andrew J.; Matthews, Mark A.

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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (11-15), 2011

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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (11), 2011


Contents:


Review


Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula and Indra Prakash

The aroma, taste, color and bioactive constituents of tea


Gulshan Chaudhary and Prem Kumar Dantu

Morphological, phytochemical and pharmacological, studies on Boerhaavia diffusa L.


Bilal Ahmad Wani, Amina Khan Rouf Hamza and F. A. Mohiddin

Saffron: A repository of medicinal properties


Research Articles


Abubakar A., Iliyasu B., Ojiegbu F. N., Igweh A.C., Shamaki B. U., Dung E. C., Domtur L. L., Okogun J. I., Gbodi T. A. and Ogbadoyi E. O.

Evaluation of the antitrypanosomal activity of Cucumis metuliferus pulp extract in rabbits


Zhou Wen-hua, Jiang Ai-min, P. U. Yi-xin, Zhang Hai-de and Ren Honghao

Areca nut oil with arecoline can enhance hypolipidemia in rats


Kritchaya Issakul, Araya Jatisatienr, Elke Pawelzik and Chaiwat Jatisatienr

Potential of Mammea siamensis as a botanical insecticide: Its efficiency on diamondback moth and side effects on non-target organisms


Hina Iqbal, Zaman Sher and Zaheer Uddin Khan

Medicinal plants from salt range Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan


Majid Shokrpour, Mousa Torabi Gigloo, Ali Asghari and Shirin Bahrampour

Study of some agronomic attributes in milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertn.) ecotypes from Iran


Filiz Akbaş, Çigdem Isikalan, Süreyya Namli, Pinar Karakuş and Davut Başaran

Direct plant regeneration from in vitro-derived leaf explants of Hypericum spectabile, a medicinal plant


J. M. Sini, I. A. Umar and H. M. Inuwa

The beneficial effect of extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces in alloxan-diabetic rats: Hypoglycaemic and hypolipidaemic activities


Lin Zhang, Peihe Nie, Guohua Zhang, Weifang Rong, and Jianming Zhi

Endothelium-independent vasodilation effect of hydroxysafflor yellow A in thoracic aorta of Wistar rats


Zhonghai Tang, Liqun Rao, Guoping Peng, Min Zhou, Guorong Shi and Yizeng Liang

Effects of endophytic fungus and its elicitors on cell status and alkaloid synthesis in cell suspension cultures of Catharanthus roseus


Norfaizatul Shalida Omar, Zetty Akmal Che Zakaria, Then Sue Mian, Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah and Musalmah Mazlan

Centella asiatica modulates neuron cell survival by altering caspase-9 pathway


Christine Stanly, Arvind Bhatt, Hag Mohammed Daffaralah Ali, Chan Lai Keng and Boey Peng Lim

Evaluation of free radical scavenging activity and total phenolic content in the petiole-derived callus cultures of Zingiber zerumbet Smith


Jie Sun, Guoyou Yin, Peng Du and Lanying Chen

Optimization of extraction technique of polysaccharides from pumpkin by response surface method


Forough Golsaz Shirazi, Azadeh Raoufi, Mehdi Yousefi, Hossein Asgarian-Omran, Ali Memarian, Jalal Khoshnoodi, Vahid Younesi and Fazel Shokri

In vitro immunoinhibitory effects of Setarud on human B lymphocyte


Yavar Sharafi

Investigation on pollen viability and longevity in Malus pumila L., Pyrus commonis L., and Cydonia oblonga L., in vitro


Simona Ioana Vicaş, Dumitriţa Rugină, and Carmen Socaciu

Comparative study about antioxidant activities of Viscum album from different host trees, harvested in different seasonsd


Yafeng Li, Yanli Wang, Qi Yu, Kena Wei, Meng Li, Sihai Zhao, Yuzuru Kurabayashi, Jianglin Fan and Enqi Liu

Compound Danshen dripping pills for stable angina: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials


Munesh Kumar, Rainer W. Bussmann, Joshi Mukesh and Pramod Kumar

Ethnomedicinal uses of plants close to rural habitation in Garhwal Himalaya, India


Sook Yee Hor, Elham Farsi, Mun Fei Yam, Norazimah Mat Nuyah and Mohd. Zaini Asmawi

Lipid-lowering effects of Coriolus versicolor extract in poloxamer 407-induced hypercholesterolaemic rats and high cholesterol-fed rats


Sujatha Ramasamy, Norhanom Abdul Wahab, Nurhayati Zainal Abidin and Sugumaran Manickam

Cytotoxicity evaluation of five selected Malaysian Phyllanthaceae species on various human cancer cell lines


Muhammed Ayub, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Ather Nadeem, Asif Tanveer, Muhammad Tahir and Rehan Alam

Effect of nitrogen application on growth, yield and oil contents of Fennel (Foenoculum vulgare Mill.)


Malkait Singh Saini, Nakeer Razak and Irfan Ahmad

Poophilus costalis Walker (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae): A possible constraint to commercial exploitation of Lavendula angustifolia Mill in Kashmir Himalaya with affinity for C3 photosynthetic plants


Liang Zhenhong

Chemical analysis of Magnolia liliflora essential oil and its pharmacological function in nursing pregnant women suffering from decubitus ulcer


F. Mollamin, N. Hooshmand and M. Monajjemi

Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and DFT studies of boron-nitride nano cones: properties investigating B10N11H7 (Thr)2 in different temperatures and solvents


Danbing Jia

Composition and effect of anti-hypoxia of Chinese medicinal plant mixture


Shehata, S. A. Gharib, A. A., Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Abdel Gawad, K. F. and Emad A. Shalaby

Influence of compost, amino and humic acids on the growth, yield and chemical parameters of strawberries


Diab R, Mounayar A, Maalouf E and Chahine R

Beneficial effects of Solanum melongena (Solanaceae) peduncles extracts, in periodontal diseases


M. Ramesh, A. Karthikeyan, K. Vijayakumar, M. Joe Virgin Largia and S. Karutha Pandian

Agrobacterium- Mediated transformation of pharmaceutically important Indian medicinal herb Bacopa monnieri (L.)


Yun-Fang Chen, Hsiao-Yuh Roan, Chong-Kuei Lii, Yuan-Ching Huang and Tsu-Shing Wang

Relationship between antioxidant and antiglycation ability of saponins, polyphenols, and polysaccharides in Chinese herbal medicines used to treat diabetes


Landy N., Ghalamkari Gh, Toghyani M. and Moattar F.

The effects of Echinacea purpurea L. (purple coneflower) as an antibiotic growth promoter substitution on performance, carcass characteristics and humoral immune response in broiler chickens


Dorota Bonarska-Kujawa, Sylwia Cyboran, Jan Oszmiański and Halina Kleszczyńska

Antioxidant properties of apple leaves and fruits extracts from apple leaves and fruits as effective antioxidants


Adeel Mahmood, Aqeel Mahmood, Hamayun Shaheen, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Yasmin Sangi and Aneel Galani

Ethno medicinal survey of plants from district Bhimber Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan


Wen-yuan Guo, Zhi-jia Ni, Zheng-xin Wang, Zhi-ren Fu and Rui-dong Li

The protective effects of ginkgo leaf extract on CCl4-induced liver injury in mice


Abbas Azadmehr, Reza Hajiaghaee, Afshin Afshari, Zahra Amirghofran, Mahmoud Refieian-Kopaei, Hossein yousofi Darani and Hedayatollah Shirzad

Evaluation of in vivo immune response activity and in vitro anti-cancer effect by Scrophularia megalantha


Ji Young Park, Won-Jun Oh, Dong-Mi Kwak, Min-Gyeong Kim, Geon-Sik Seo, Seung-Bok Hong and Man Hee Rhee

The anti-platelet activity of Hypsizygus marmoreus extract is involved in the suppression of intracellular calcium mobilization and integrin ?IIbß3 activation


Keyong Ho Lee, Choa Hyung Cho and Ki - Hyeong Rhee

Synergic anti-tumor activity of gamma-irradiated exo-polysaccharide from submerged culture of Grifola frondosa


M. M. Rahman and S. K. Bhadra

Development of protocol for in vitro culture and rapid propagation of Wedelia chinensis (Osbeek) Merr.


Susi Endrini, Suherman Jaksa, Himmi Marsiati, Fauziah Othman and Asmah Rahmat

Effects of cola nut (Cola nitida) on the apoptotic cell of human breast carcinoma cell lines


Akinpelu A. David, Awotorebo T. Olaniyi, Agunbiade O. Mayowa, Aiyegoro A. Olayinka and Okoh I. Anthony

Anti-Vibrio and preliminary phytochemical characteristics of crude methanolic extracts of the leaves of Dialium guineense (Wild)


Dedi Noviendri, Irwandi Jaswir, Hamzah Mohd. Salleh, Muhammad Taher, Kazuo Miyashita and Nazaruddin Ramli

Fucoxanthin extraction and fatty acid analysis of Sargassum binderi and S. duplicatum


Shima Gharibi, Mehdi Rahimmalek, Aghafakhr Mirlohi, Mohammad Mehdi Majidi and Badraldin Ebrahim Sayed Tabatabaei

Assessment of genetic diversity in Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium and Achillea millefolium subsp. elbursensis using morphological and ISSR markers


Yi Bi, Jingwei Tian, Liang Wang, Fenglan Zhao, Jiangfeng Zhang, Nan Wang, Haijun Sun and Qingguo Meng

Synthesis, structural determination and protective effects on cultured anoxia/reoxygen injury myocardiocytes of ocotillol-type derivatives


Asif Iqbal, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Akram and Khan Usmanghani

Comparative study between Hepotin (herbal formulation) and Interferon alpha 2b and Ribavirin in the treatment of Hepatitis C


Ali Ghasemzadeh and Neda Ghasemzadeh

Effects of shading on synthesis and accumulation of polyphenolic compounds in ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) varieties


Abimbola Sowemimo, Maryna Van de Venter, Lucinda Baatjies and Trevor Koekemoer

Cytotoxicity evaluation of selected Nigerian plants used in traditional cancer treatment


Sang Quan-xi

Effect of “wuqinxi” exercise on antioxidant status, intestine Bacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei and Bacillus bifidus in obese old people



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (12), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles


P. Rama Bhat, P. S. Prajna, V. Kumar, M. Adarsh Hegde and L. Singh

Antimicrobial properties of leaves of Calycopteris floribunda Lam.


Gul Jan, MirAjab Kahan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Zafar Iqbal, Aftab Afzal, Muhammad Afzal, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Abdul Majid, Muhammad Fiaz, Muhammad Zafar, Abdul Waheed and Farzana Gul

Nutritional analysis, micronutrients and chlorophyll contents of Cichorium intybus L.


Siddiqui M. Asif, Amir Asad, Vats Poonam, Rani Kalpana, Malik S. Anjali, Arya Arvind, Kapoor Neelesh and Kumar Hirdesh

Arthritis database: A composite web interface for anti-arthritic plants


Mahmood A. A., Al-Bayaty F. H., Salmah I., Nor Syuhada A. B., Harita H. and Mughrabi F. F.

Enhancement of gastric ulcer by Areca catechu nut in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injuries in rats


Yakubu A. I and Mukhtar M. D

In vitro antimicrobial activity of some phytochemical fractions of Euphorbia pulcherima L. (Poinsettia)


E. J. Hayhoe and E. A. Palombo

Extracts of Eremophila longifolia inhibit the cariogenic activities of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus


Alireza Pirzad, Mohammad Reza Shakiba, Saeed Zehtab-Salmasi, Seyed Abolghasem Mohammadi, Reza Darvishzadeh and Abbas Samadi

Effect of water stress on leaf relative water content, chlorophyll, proline and soluble carbohydrates in Matricaria chamomilla L.


Marcelo F. de Araújo, Claudiana B. dos Santos, Jéssica F. Cavalcanti, Fernanda S. Pereira, Gabriella S. Mendes, Alceni A. Werle, Maria Teresa V. Romanos and Mário G. de Carvalho

Proposed active compounds from Ouratea parviflora


Yi-Hang Wu, Bing-Jie Hao, E. Shen, Xiao-Meng Zhang and Yu Zhao

Regulatory effect of Laggera alata extract on immune mediated liver injury


Hai–xia Duan, Xiang-dong Ma, Xing-Ma, Yong-Wu Hu and Bi-Liang Chen

Antiproliferation and apoptosis induced by Bisdemethoxycurcumin in human ovarian cancer cell SKOV3


Sonia Hamlaoui-Gasmi, Meherzia Mokni, Ferid Limam, Ezzedine Aouani, Mohamed Amri and Lamjed Marzouki

Effect of the route of garlic treatment on modulation of erythrocytes and plasma redox status in rats


Muhammad Rashid Khan, Javeria Haroon, Rahmat Ali Khan, Jasia Bokhari, Maria Shabbir and Umbreen Rashid

Prevention of KBrO3-induced cardiotoxicity by Sonchus asper in rat


Akinloye O. A. and Solanke, O. O.

Evaluation of hypolipidemic and potential antioxidant effects of Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (l) mill sp.) leaves in alloxan-induced hyperglycemic rats.


M. Zargar, A. H. Azizah, A. M. Roheeyati, A. B. Fatimah, F. Jahanshiri and M. S. Pak-Dek

Bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of different extracts from Vitex negundo leaf


Milena Villarini, Cristina Fatigoni, Barbara Cerbone, Luca Dominici, Massimo Moretti and Rita Pagiotti

In vitro testing of a laxative herbal food supplement for genotoxic and antigenotoxic properties


Saoussen Hammami, Asma Nguir, Dhouha Saidana, Jihene Cheriaa and Zine Mighri

Chemical analysis and antimicrobial effects of essential oil from Limoniastrum guyonianum growing in Tunisia


Kyung-Jin Jo, Jeung-Min Lee, Seung-Cheol Lee and Hae-Ryong Park

Anticancer activity of persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) calyx extracts on human cancer cells


A. A. Zahra, F. A. Kadir, A. A. Mahmood, A. A. Al hadi, S. M. Suzy, S. Z. Sabri, I. I. Latif and K. A. Ketuly

Acute toxicity study and wound healing potential of Gynura procumbens leaf extract in rats


Lucas Junqueira de Freitas Morel, Danilo Morais Baratto, Paulo Sérgio Pereira, Silvia Helena Taleb Contini, Henrique Garcia Momm, Bianca Waléria Bertoni, Suzelei de Castro França and Ana Maria Soares Pereira

Loganin production in Palicourea rigida H.B.K. (Rubiaceae) from populations native to Brazilian Cerrado


A. Padmavathy and M. Anbarashan

Phytomedicinal study of coastal sand dune floras in Puducherry


Rubina Ghani, Asif Iqbal, Naveed Akhtar, Arshad Mahmood, Nida Shamshad Malik, Muhammad Usman, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Akram , H.M.Asif

Identification of different stages of hepatitis B infection with ELISA and PCR assay


Shubhi Mehrotra, Rohitash Jamwal, Radhey Shyam, Dharmendra Kumar Meena, Kshipra Mishra, Rajashree Patra, Ronita De, Asish Mukhopadhyay, Ashwani Kumar Srivastava and Shoma Paul Nandi

Anti-Helicobacter pylori and antioxidant properties of Emblica officinalis pulp extract: A potential source for therapeutic use against gastric ulcer


Benhong Zhou, Xiaojun Li, Zhenpeng Qiu and Gang Liu

Effect of leaves of Apocynum venetum L. on the activity of MAO in mice



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (13), 2011


Contents:

Review


Saraswathi J., Venkatesh K., Nirmala Baburao, Majid Hameed Hilal and A. Roja Rani

Phytopharmacological importance of Pelargonium species


Bin Wang, Lan Lin, Qing Ni and Cheng lian Su

Hippophae rhamnoides Linn. for treatment of diabetes mellitus: A review


Research Articles


Harpreet Walia, Subodh Kumar and Saroj Arora

Comparative antioxidant analysis of hexane extracts of Terminalia chebula Retz. prepared by maceration and sequential extraction method


Ju-Sung Kim and Myong-Jo Kim

Anti-oxidant activity of Rhus verniciflua stokes by extract conditions


T. P. Jaca and L. Kambizi

Antibacterial properties of some wild leafy vegetables of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa


Nor Azma Yusuf, M. Suffian M. Annuar and Norzulaani Khalid

Efficient propagation of an important medicinal plant Boesenbergia rotunda by shoot derived callus


Annabelle A. Herrera and Evangeline C. Amor

Antiangiogenic activity of extracts and fractions from an endemic plant Ardisia pyramidalis (Cav.) Pers. From Bataan, Philippines using Duck in ovo chorioallantoic membrane assay


Himanshu Sharma and Ashwani Kumar

Effect of plant growth regulators and chemical fertilizers on growth and productivity of Chlorophytum tuberosum and Pergularia daemia


Zhu-Jun Wang, Qiang Zhang, Tie-Jing Li and Xin-Huai Zhao

A possible molecular mechanism of two flavones and two flavonols on the induction of differentiation in a human oesophageal adenocarcinoma cell line (OE33)


Eseyin Olorunfemi, Ebong Aniekan, Anefiok Udobre and Imo Udoh

Changes in the pharmacokinetics of chloroquine by the leaf extract of Lasianthera africana in rats


Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Sedigheh Asgary, Azadeh Adelnia, Mahbubeh Setorki, Majid Khazaei, Somayeh Kazemi and Fatemeh Shamsi

The effects of cornelian cherry on atherosclerosis and atherogenic factors in hypercholesterolemic rabbits


Mourboul Ablise, Xin Min Mao and Rena Kasim

Antioxidant activities of Uyghur medicinal tea in human HL-60 cell line and rat hepatic microsomes


Benzhi Cai, Nan Chen, Jianping Li, Zhiwei Fang, Gang Wang, Xinyue Wang, Xueying Tan, Tao Ban and Yanjie Lu

Matrine protects homocysteine-induced atrial dysfunction in rats


M. Wang, J. Li, L. Zhang, R. W. Yang, C. B. Ding, Y. H. Zhou and Z. Q. Yin

Genetic diversity among Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge and related species using morphological traits and RAPD markers


Muhterem Aydin and Murat Yuksel

The effects of high level ascorbic acid on pregnancy rate and litter size in rats


Ibrahim Jantan, Farra Aidah Jumuddin, Fadlina Chany Saputri and Khalid Rahman

Inhibitory effects of the extracts of Garcinia species on human low-density lipoprotein peroxidation and platelet aggregation in relation to their total phenolic contents


Mohammad Ariana, Abdolhossein Samie, Mohammad Ali Edriss and Rahman Jahanian

Effects of powder and extract form of green tea and marigold, and ?-tocopheryl acetate on performance, egg quality and egg yolk cholesterol levels of laying hens in late phase of production


Esfandiar Heidarian and Yadollah Soofiniya

Hypolipidemic and hypoglycemic effects of aerial part of Cynara scolymus in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats


Alya Maimoona, Ismat Naeem, Zeb Saddiqe, Niaz Ali, Ghayour Ahmed and Ismail Shah

Analysis of total flavonoids and phenolics in different fractions of bark and needle extracts of Pinus roxburghii and Pinus wallichiana


Lunesa C. Pinzon, Mylene M. Uy, Kung Hong Sze, Mingfu Wang and Ivan Keung Chu

Isolation and characterization of antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and chemopreventive flavones from Premna odorata Blanco


Deepika Gupta, Bruce Bleakley and Rajinder K. Gupta

Phytochemical analysis and antioxidant activity of herbal plant Doronicum hookeri Hook f. (Asteraceae).


Omotosho Ishiaq Olayinka, Henshaw Ansa Nta, and Adeagbo Ganiyat

Effect of natural antioxidant – Ocimum gratissimum in modulating neurodegenerative changes in rats fed with high concentration of lead acetate


Majid Toghyani, Mohsen Tohidi, Mehdi Toghyani, Abbasali Gheisari and Seyed Ali Tabeidian

Evaluation of yarrow (Achillea millefolium) as a natural growth promoter in comparison with a probiotic supplement on performance, humoral immunity and blood metabolites of broiler chicks


Sumaira Sahreen, Muhammad Rashid Khan and Rahmat Ali Khan

Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activities of Rumex hastatus D. Don. leaves


Gerhardt J. Boukes and Maryna van de Venter

Cytotoxicity and mechanism(s) of action of Hypoxis spp. (African potato) against HeLa, HT-29 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines


Saber Imani, Saeed Rezaei-Zarchi, Mehrdad Hashemi, Hojjat Borna, Amaneh Javid, Ali mohamad Zand and Hossein Bari Abarghouei

Hg, Cd and Pb heavy metal bioremediation by Dunaliella alga



Silje Glaserud, Tom Erik Gronhaug, Terje E. Michaelsen, Marit Inngjerdingen, Hilde Barsett, Drissa Diallo and Berit Smestad Paulsen

Immunomodulating polysaccharides from leaves of the Malian medicinal tree Combretum glutinosum; structural differences between small and large leaves can substantiate the preference for small leaves by some healers


J. Ruiz-Martínez, J. A. Ascacio, R. Rodríguez, D. Morales and C. N. Aguilar

Phytochemical screening of extracts from some Mexican plants used in traditional medicine


Quang-Vinh Nguyen and Jong-Bang Eun

Antioxidant activity of solvent extracts from Vietnamese medicinal plants


W. Maneerat, S. Tha-in, S. Cheenpracha, U. Prawat and S. Laphookhieo

New amides from the seeds of Clausana lansium


Kejun Deng, Yong Zhang, Liyuan Xie, Weihong Peng, Bingcheng Gan and Zhenglong Ren

Simultaneous determination of five fatty acids in Phellinus sp. by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection


Ahmad H. Al-Fraihat, Sati Y. A. Al-dalain, Mohammad S. Abu-Darwish, Jalal A. Al-Tabbal aand Ziad B. Al-Rawashdeh

Effect of organic and biofertilizers on growth, herb yield and volatile oil of marjoram plant grown in Ajloun region, Jordan


Pei Hou, Ziyin Xie, Le Zhang, Zhen Song, Jiao Mi, Yang He and Yufeng Li

Comparison of three different methods for total RNA extraction from Fritillaria unibracteata, a rare Chinese medicinal plant


Behzad Babazadeh Darjazi

A comparison of volatile components of flower of page mandarin obtained by ultrasound-assisted extraction and hydrodistillation


Jianhui Ye, Nana Li, Huiling Liang, Junjie Dong, Jianliang Lu, Xinqiang Zheng and Yuerong Liang

Determination of cyclic oligomers residues in tea catechins isolated by polyamide-6 column


Mamoona Munir, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Muhammad Zafar, Kiran Yasmin Khan, Rabia Niamat, Kanwal Tariq, Saira Tabassum, Sidra Nisar Ahmed, Ume Habiba and Abida Bano. Paras Mazari

Taxonomic potential of foliar epidermal anatomy among the wild culinary vegetables of Pakistan


Shai L. J., Magano S. R., Lebelo S. L. and Mogale, A. M.

Inhibitory effects of five medicinal plants on rat alpha-glucosidase: Comparison with their effects on yeast alpha-glucosidase


Arshad Javaid and Hafiza Asma Rehman

Antifungal activity of leaf extracts of some medicinal trees against Macrophomina phaseolina


Xiao-Ling Wang, Gao-Qiang Liu, Chao-Yang Zhu, Guo-Ying Zhou and Si-Min Kuang

Enhanced production of mycelial biomass and extracellular polysaccharides in caterpillar-shaped medicinal mushroom Cordyceps sinensis CS001 by the addition of palmitic acid


Yang Wang, Xi Huang, Qinghua Liang, Rong Fan, Feng Qin, Jiekun Luo, Yunhui Li, Wei Liu, Xilian Mao, Hui Ji, Zhaoqian Liu, Honghao Zhou, Lan Fan and Lichen Gao

Simultaneous quantitation of seven anthraquinones in aqueous extract of rhubarb and analysis for absorption in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with traumatic brain injury using UPLC-PDA method


M. Malekzadeh, S. I. Mirmazloum, S. N. Mortazavi, M. Panahi and H. R. Angorani

Physicochemical properties and oil constituents of milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertn. cv. Budakalászi) under drought stress


Tie-shan Wang, Li-jing Chen, Zhao-yu Wang, Sheng-tan Zhang and Jing-ming Lin

Isolation, characterization and crystal structure of ethyl 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxy-benzoate from Scutellaria barbata


A. A. Elshafei, Naglaa M. Esmaiel, A. A. Al-Doss and M. N. Barakat

An assessment of the cultural capabilities of clonal propagation and molecular characterization of Yucca elephantipes cultivars


Shima Gharibi, Mehdi Rahimmalek, Aghafakhr Mirlohi, Mohammad Mehdi Majidi and Badraldin Ebrahim Sayed Tabatabaei

Assessment of genetic diversity in Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium and Achillea millefolium subsp. elbursensis using morphological and ISSR markers


Sheng Quan, Jun-bo Wang, Xiao-ping Xia, Xv-ai Lin and Jie Yan

Protective effect of puerarin form the roots of Pueraria lobata against systemic inflammatory response syndrome by regulating the levels of related cytokines


Rizwan Ashraf M. Phil, Rafeeq Alam Khan and Imran Ashraf

Effects of garlic on blood glucose levels and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (14), 2011


Contents:

Review


G. Phani Kumar, Raj Kumar, O. P. Chaurasia and Shashi Bala Singh

Current status and potential prospects of medicinal plant sector in trans- Himalayan Ladakh


Research Articles


Famurewa A .V., Emuekele P. O. and Jaiyeoba K. F.

Effect of drying and size reduction on the chemical and volatile oil contents of ginger (Zingiber officinale)


Li Xiang, Ma Jianzhong, Xiajing, Shi Yundong and Yu Qiaozhen

A study on the ultrasonic-assisted ethanol extraction of dioscin


Ayuba V. O., Ojobe T. O. and Ayuba S. A.

Phytochemical and proximate composition of Datura Innoxia leaf, seed, stem, pod and root


Zijing Xu, Cuiwu Lin and Yong Shi

Isolation and structure determination of a new oligosaccharide from Blume riparia


Yijun Fan, Zhongfu Ge and Aoxue Luo

In vitro antioxidant activity of polysaccharide from Gardenia jasminoides Ellis


Mohamed Tarroum, Salim Khan and Fahad Al-Qurainy

Evaluation of drought tolerance of ?-irradiated mutants of Hordeum vulgare


Alban Ibraliu, Xuefei Mi and Fetah Elezi

Variation in essential oils to study the biodiversity in Satureja montana L.


Alireza Rezaeizadeh, Zuki Bin Abu Bakar Zakaria, Maryam Abdollahi, Goh Yong Meng, Noordin Mohamed Mustapha, Muhajir Bin Hamid and Tengku Azmi Bin Tengku Ibrahim

Antioxidant and antihyperglycaemic effects of an aqueous extract from Momordica charantia fruit in a type II diabetic rat model


M. Falaki Khalilsaraie, N. Saima, N. T. Meti, R. K. Bhadekar and D. P. Nerkar

Cytological study and anti-microbial activity of embryogenic callus induced from leaf cultures of Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers


Shu-Mei Yue and Wen-Yi Kang

Lowering blood lipid and hepatoprotective activity of amentoflavone from Selaginella tamariscina in vivo


Mohanad R. Alwan, Oleksandr Krasilshchikov and Tengku Muzaffar bin Tengku Mohamad Shihabudin

The effects of tocotrienol supplementation on the muscle contractile properties, fatigue and antioxidant enzymes activities of gastrocnemius muscle of trained and untrained rats


Zhonghai Tang, Jingping Qin, Xiaona Xu, Guorong Shi, Hua Yang and Yizeng Liang

Applying silica gel column chromatography purify resveratrol from extracts of Morus alba L. Leaf


Ekwueme F. N., Oje O. A., Nwodo O. F. C. and Ozoemena N. F.

Anti-inflammatory capacity of the aqueous leaf extract of Senna mimosoides on inhibition of rat oedema, platelet aggregatory activity and prostaglandin synthase activity


Chun-hua Zhou, Xian Li, Chong-de Sun, Chang-jie Xu and Kun-song Chen

Effects of drying methods on the bioactive components in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) flowers


Jin-feng Shao, Yuan-biao Wang, Que Chen, Zheng-qiong Liu, Qian Liu, Wen-guo Cai and Wei Wu

A daily variation in essential oil composition of flower of different accessions from Carthamus tinctorius L. in Sichuan province of China


Farnaz Malik, Shahzad Hussain, Tahira Mirza, Abdul Hameed, Safia Ahmad, Humayun Riaz, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah and Khan Usmanghani

Screening for antimicrobial activity of thirty-three medicinal plants used in the traditional system of medicine in Pakistan


Dong-Mei Liu, Ji-Wen Sheng, Hui-Min Qi, Wei-Fen Zhang, Chun-Ming Han and Xi-Long Xin

Antioxidant activity of polysaccharides extracted from Athyrium multidentatum (Doll) Ching


M. A. Goudarzi, B. Hamedi, F. Malekpoor, R. Abdizadeh, A. Ghasemi Pirbalouti, and M. Raissy

Sensitivity of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from rainbow trout to some Iranian medicinal herbs


Siavash Hosseinpour Chermahini, Fadzilah Adibah Abdul Majid and Mohamad Roji Sarmidi

Cosmeceutical value of herbal extracts as natural ingredients and novel technologies in anti-aging


Yaser Hassan Dewir, Nisha Singh, Senabelo Mngomezulu and Ali Mikael Kalifa Omar

Micropropagation and detection of important triterpenes in in vitro and field grown plants of Syzygium cordatum


Kejun Deng, Yong Zhang, Liyuan Xie, Weihong Peng, Bingcheng Gan and Zhenglong Ren

Simultaneous determination of five fatty acids in Phellinus sp. by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection


Bashir Ahmad, Ibrar khan, Sadiq Azam, Shumaila Bashir, Jamshaid Ahmad, Farrukh Hussain

Screening of Acacia modesta for haemagglutination, antibacterial, phytotoxic and Insecticidal activities


Fah Chueahongthong, Chadarat Ampasavate, Siriporn Okonogi, Singkome Tima and Songyot Anuchapreeda

Cytotoxic effects of crude kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix, DC.) leaf fractional extracts on leukemic cell lines


Jian-chao Wang, Jun-yu Zhang, Qiang Wang and Wan-ru Cai

Parthenolide sensitizes HL-60 cells to aclarubicin-induced apoptosis by inhibiting NF-kappa band COX-2 activation


Afolabi I. S. and Ofobrukweta K.

Physicochemical and nutritional qualities of Carica papaya seed products


Venkatesh Kumar R. and Amit Srivastava

In vivo therapeutic effects of antibacterial and antiviral antibiotics using Bombyx mori L. as an animal model


Fatemeh Nabavizadeh, Ali Mohammad Alizadeh, Zahra Sadroleslami and Soheila Adeli

Gastroprotective effects of amygdalin on experimental gastric ulcer: Role of NO and TNF-?


Jie Sun and Ya-Hui Wei

A new alkaloid-aluminum glycoside isolated from Rhizoma Sparganii (Sparganium stoloniferum Buch. -Ham.)


Viresh Mohanlall, Paul Steenkamp and Bharti Odhav

Isolation and characterization of anthraquinone derivatives from Ceratotheca triloba (Bernh.) Hook.f.


Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani, Saeid Zehtab-Salmasi and Soheila Dastborhan

Changes in essential oil content of dill (Anethum graveolens) organs under salinity stress


Njume C., Afolayan A. J. and Ndip R. N.

Diversity of plants used in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori associated morbidities in the Nkonkobe municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa


Zaki Tubesha, Shahid Iqbal and Maznah Ismail

Effects of hydrolytic conditions on recovery of antioxidants from methanolic extracts of Nigella sativa seeds


Inhye Kim, Jin-Young Kim, Yu-Jin Hwang, Kyung-A Hwang, Ae-Son Om, Jae-Hyun Kim and Kang-Jin Cho

The beneficial effects of aged black garlic extract on obesity and hyperlipidemia in rats fed a high-fat diet


Yali Liu, Shuying Han, Yanshu Zhu, Yonggang Li, Xiaojuan Zhu and Guiyun Wang

Adjuvant effect of saponins isolated from the sepal of Physalis alkekengi L. var. francheti (Mast.) Makino fruit on the immune responses to ovalbumin in mice


Sadaki Yokota, Yuko Onohara, Takuhiro Uto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Osamu Morinaga and Yukihiro Shoyama

Localization of ginsenoside-Rb1 in Panax ginseng revealed by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic techniques


Mahdi Pouramir, Mohammad Esmaiel Shahaboddin, Ali-Akbar Moghadamnia and Karim Parastouei

To study the effects of Securigera securidaca (L.) seed against alloxan-induced hyperglycemia


Irene Kamenidou, Stamatis Aggelopoulos and Athanasios C. Batzios

Natural medical attributes and benefits of Spirulina: Segmentation based on consumers’ knowledge


Francis Chin Pheng Lim, Anna Pick Kiong Ling, Siew Ling Hii and Sobri Hussein

Towards understanding of physiological changes in cell culture of recalcitrant woody plant, Eurycoma longifolia, in response to carbon and nitrogen sources


Njume C., Afolayan A. J., Samie A. and Ndip R. N.

In-vitro anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts of the stem bark of Combretum molle (Combretaceae)


Ai-hua Zhang, Feng-jie Lei, Si-wen Fang, Ming-hui Jia and Lian-xue Zhang

Effects of ginsenosides on the growth and activity of antioxidant enzymes in American ginseng seedlings


Celia Jimena Pena, Arun Reverte, Luis Barbo Hernandez, Samuel Meraz, Manuel Jiménez, Ana María García, Guillermo Avila and Tzasna Hernández

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and toxic effects of Senna skinneri Bentham, Irwin and Barneby (Leguminoseae)


Idin Zibaee, Arash zibaee, Ali Reza Bandani, Jalal Jalali Sendi and Reza Talaei-Hassanloei

Artemisia annua L. (Asterasea) changes some biochemical compounds in the hemolymph of Hyphantria cunea Drury (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)


Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani, Afsaneh Chadordooz-Jeddi and Parisa Zafarani-Moattar

Influence of salt-priming on mucilage yield of Isabgol (Plantago ovata Forsk) under salinity stress


Ahmad Reza Golparvar and Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti and Marzieh Karimi

Determination of the effective traits on essence percent and dry flower yield in German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) populations


Ali Ghasemzadeh and Hawa Z. E. Jaafar

Antioxidant potential and anticancer activity of young ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) grown under different CO2 concentration


Pinto N. S., Carmo F. S., Diniz C. L., Almeida D. S., Pereira M. O., Santos-Filho S. D., Medeiros A. C. and Bernardo-Filho M.

Effects of an aqueous extract of Three Ballerina on the survival of Escherichia coli AB1157 cultures and in the action of stannous chloride


Lihui Wei, Jiumao Lin, Wei Xu, Zhenfeng Hong, Xianxiang Liu and Jun Peng

Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by Scutellaria barbata D. Don via suppressing proliferation, migration and tube formation of endothelial cells and downregulation of the expression of VEGF-A in cancer cells


Mikdat Simsek, Metin Tansu Uguz, Mehmet Kadir Erdogan Abdurrahman Gul, Selahattin Karakoc and Metin Digrak

Selection studies on high quality walnut types and their antibacterial properties


Breno Henrique Caneguim, Juliana Mara Serpeloni, Maria Aparecida Medeiros Maciel, Ilce Mara de Syllos Cólus and Suzana de Fátima Paccola Mesquita

Croton cajucara methanolic extract reduced the DNA-damage but did not protect against the testicular alterations induced by doxorubicin


Filiz Savaroglu, Semra Ilhan and Cansu Filik-Iscen

An evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of some Turkish mosses


Nisar Ahmad, Hina Fazal, Bilal Haider Abbasi, Inayat-Ur-Rahman, Shazma Anwar, Mubarak Ali Khan, Abdul Basir, Humaira Inayat, Roshan Zameer and Shahid Akbar Khalil, Kiran Yasmin Khan

DPPH-scavenging antioxidant potential in regenerated tissues of Stevia rebaudiana, Citrus sinensis and Saccharum officinarum


Lisong Hu, Yangdong Wang, Menghao Du and Jingping Zhang

Characterization of the volatiles and active components in ethanol extracts of fruits of Litsea cubeba (Lour.) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography- olfactometry (GC-O)


Wu Xing and Hu Jian

Pretreatment with astragaloside IV protects H9c2 cells against hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis by scavenging of reactive oxygen species and regulation of Bcl-2 and Bax expression


Mohammad A. Khiyami, Sulaiman M. Al-Fadual and Ali H. Bahklia

Polyhydroxyalkanoates production via Bacillus PCS biofilm and date palm syrup


Yuanyuan Li, Changqin Li, Qitai Xu and Wenyi Kang

Antioxidant, ?-glucosidase inhibitory activities in vitro and alloxan-induced diabetic rats’ protective effect of Indigofera stachyodes Lindl. root


Zhang Sheng-tan, Cheng Guo-hua, Lin Jing-ming, Wang Tie-shan, Zheng Ni and Wang Zhao-yu

Optimization of Jatropha curcas for total flavonoids by response surface methodology and antibacterial activity


Shao JiPing

Effect of aqueous extract of Lycium barbarum on serum CK, CK-MB activities and myocardium injury in exhausted swimming rats




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (15), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles



Loiy Elsir Ahmed Hassan, Waleed S. Koko, El-Badri E. Osman, Mahmoud M. Dahab and Hasnah Mohd Sirat

In vitro antigiardial activity of Citrullus lanatus Var. citroides extracts and cucurbitacins isolated compounds


Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Shumaila Jan, Jasia Bokhari and Umbreen Rashid

Prevention of CCl4 induced adrenal oxidative stress in rat by Sonchus asper


M. N. Barakat and Heba El-Sammak

In vitro culture and plant regeneration from shoot tip and lateral bud explants of Gypsophila paniculata L.


Ismail Norsharina, Ismail Maznah, Al-Absi Aied and Al-Naqeeb Ghanya

Thymoquinone rich fraction from Nigella sativa and thymoquinone are cytotoxic towards colon and leukemic carcinoma cell lines


Bo Yang, Yiqi Wang, Jin Chen, Hongmei Lin and Rusong Zhang

The study of planting area on components of Baishouwu anti-tumor effective fraction by RP-HPLC


Zahra Zakeri, Shahrokh Izadi, Zohreh Bari, Farhang Soltani, Behzad Narouie and Mohammad Ghasemi-rad

Evaluating the effects of ginger extract on knee pain, stiffness and difficulty in patients with knee osteoarthritis


Bashir Ahmad, Ibrar khan, Shumaila Bashir, Sadiq Azam and Niaz Ali

Screening of Acacia modesta for antifungal, anti-termite, nitric oxide free radical scavenging assay and brine shrimp cytotoxic activities


Hassan Sher and Mohammed N. Alyemeni

Evaluation of anti-diabetic activity and toxic potential of Lycium shawii in animal models


Yueyue Wang, Fuyuan Jing, Shuoye Yu, Yunfei Chen, Tao Wang, Pin Liu, Guofeng Wang, Xiaofen Sun and Kexuan Tang

Co-overexpression of the HMGR and FPS genes enhances artemisinin content in Artemisia annua L.


Angélica Bautista-Cruz, María R. Arnaud-Vinas, Gabino Alberto Martínez-Gutiérrez, Patricia Soledad Sánchez-Medina and Rafael Pérez Pacheco

The traditional medicinal and food uses of four plants in Oaxaca, Mexico


Guimei Lin, Zhili Xu, Xu Zhang, Hui Gao, Ying Hou, Libo Yin, Xiaodan Zhang, Jingxian Yang and Tianzhu Jia

Epoxyaurapten inhibition of smooth muscle contraction and phosphorylation of myosin light chain by myosin light chain kinase


Abdelouahab Bouzidi, Nadia Mahdeb and Nabila Kara

Toxicity studies of alkaloids of seeds of Datura stramonium and synthesis alkaloids in male rats


A. H. A. Abdelmageed, Faridah Q. Z., Nur Amalina A. and Muhamad Yaacob

The influence of organ and post-harvest drying period on yield and chemical composition of the essential oils of Etlingera elatior (Zingiberaceae)


Lei Chen, Jianyu Su, Lin Li, Bing Li and Wang Li

A new source of natural D-borneol and its characteristic


Murat Kizaibek, Marzia Daniar, Lin Li and Halmurat Upur

Antiproliferative activity of different extracts from Daphne altaica Pall. on selected cancer cells


Amir Mohammad Daneshian Moghaddam, Jalal Shayegh, Peyman Mikaili and Jalil Dolghari Sharaf

Antimicrobial activity of essential oil extract of Ocimum basilicum L. leaves on a variety of pathogenic bacteria


Eyup Bagci, Sukru Hayta, Ayse Yazgin and Gulden Dogan

Composition of the essential oil of Teucrium parviflorum L. (Lamiaceae) from Turkey


Tao Liu, Hanjing Yan and Xiaorong Guo

Discrimination of the medicinal plant Fallopia multiflora and its adulterants by diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR)


Sonia Hamlaoui-Gasmi, Meherzia Mokni, Nadia Limam, Ferid Limam, Ezzedine Aouani, Mohamed AmriI and Lamjed Marzouki

Effect of the route of garlic treatment on modulation of liver and spleen redox status in rats


Qian Yang, Wan-yu Shi and Xiu-hui Zhong

Influence of quercetin on transforming growth factor b1 in the uterus following Lps-induced abortion in pregnant mice


Onanong Kritpetcharat, Noppmats Khemtonglang, Panutas Kritpetcharat, Jureerut Daduang, Sakda Daduang, Krittika Suwanrungruang, Nat Bletter, Runglawan Sudmoon and Arunrat Chaveerach

Using DNA markers and barcoding to solve the common problem of identifying dried medicinal plants with the examples of Smilax and Cissus in Thailand


Feng-Hua Shi, Chun Sui, Cheng-Min Yang, Jian-He Wei, Yue Jin, Hong-Jiang Chen, Lu-Qi Huang, Yu-Kai Zhao, Xiang-Sheng Zhao, Xu-Dong Xu, Qing-Long Chu and Jing Yu

Development of a stable male-sterile line and its utilization in high yield hybrid of Platycodon Grandiflorum


Farooq Ahmad, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Zafar Iqbal and Ameer Khan

Leaf epidermal anatomy as an aid to the identification of genus Setaria weeds, tribe paniceae (Poaceae), from the salt range of Pakistan


Dragica Stankovic, Borivoj Krstic, Sasa Orlovic, Goran Trivan, Leopold Pajnik Poljak and Mirjana Sijacic Nikolic

Woody plants and herbs as bioindicators of the current condition of the natural environment in Serbia


Bao-qing Wang and Zhe-xiong Jin

Agrimoniin induced SGC7901 cell apoptosis associated mitochondrial transmembrane potential and intracellular calcium concentration


M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan, N. Anilkumar, V. Balakrishnan, M. Sivadasan, H. Ahmed Alfarhan and A. A. Alatar

Wild edible plants used by the Kattunaikka, Paniya and Kuruma tribes of Wayanad District, Kerala, India


Churdsak Jaikang, Kanokporn Niwatananun, Paitoon Narongchai, Siripun Narongchai and Chaiyavat Chaiyasut

Inhibitory effect of caffeic acid and its derivatives on human liver cytochrome P450 3A4 activity


Farooq Anwar, Muhammad Sulman, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Nazamid Saari, Shahid Iqbal and Umer Rashid

Physicochemical composition of hydro-distilled essential oil from coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) seeds cultivated in Pakistan


M. Sulusoglu, A. Cavusoglu and S. Erkal

Arbutus unedo L. (Strawberry tree) selection in Turkey Samanli mountain locations


Naser Hosseini, Samad Nejad Ebrahimi, Peyman Salehi, Behvar Asghari and Mahmood Ahmadi

Simultaneous determination of atropine and scopolamine in different parts of Hyoscyamus arachnoideus Pojark plants by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)


Udai Pratap Singh, Sudarshan Maurya, Amitabh Singh and Mandavi Singh

Phenolic acids in some Indian cultivars of Momordica charantia and their therapeutic properties


Adekunle Odunayo Adejuwon, Mary Adejumoke Bisi–Johnson, Tolulope Mobolaji Obuotor and Oyinade Aina Agboola

Bioactive compounds and antimicrobial efficacy of the extracts of Combretum pincianum Hook


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