Euphytica - 188 (1), 2012

Contents:

    Pre-harvest sprouting in cereals
    Joseph M. Nyachiro

    Developing standardized methods for breeding preharvest sprouting resistant wheat, challenges and successes in Canadian wheat
    R. M. DePauw, R. E. Knox, A. K. Singh, S. L. Fox, D. G. Humphreys, P. Hucl

    Determination of the influence of climate on falling number of winter wheat in the dryland production areas of the Free State Province of South Africa
    Annelie Barnard, Marie F. Smith

    The effect of germination temperature on seed dormancy in Croatian-grown winter wheats
    I. Ikić, M. Maričević, S. Tomasović, J. Gunjača, Z. Šatović, H. Šarčević

    Wheat ABA-insensitive mutants result in reduced grain dormancy
    Elizabeth C. Schramm, Sven K. Nelson, Camille M. Steber

    Effects of exogenous abscisic acid and gibberellic acid on pre-maturity alfa-amylase formation in wheat grains
    K. R. Kondhare, P. S. Kettlewell, A. D. Farrell, P. Hedden, J. M. Monaghan

    Vp1 expression profiles during kernel development in six genotypes of wheat, triticale and rye
    Sarah De Laethauwer, Dirk Reheul, Jan De Riek, Geert Haesaert

    Isolation and characterization of Viviparous-1 haplotypes in wheat related species
    Y. W. Sun, Y. Yang, P. R. Shewry, H. D. Jones, L. Q. Xia

    Integration of marker-assisted selection for resistance to pre-harvest sprouting with selection for grain-filling rate in breeding of white-kernelled wheat for the Chinese environment
    Shi-He Xiao, Hai-Ping Zhang, Guang-Xia You, Xiu-Ying Zhang, Chang-Sheng Yan

    Association mapping for pre-harvest sprouting tolerance in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
    V. Jaiswal, R. R. Mir, A. Mohan, H. S. Balyan, P. K. Gupta

    Comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian barleys for seed dormancy and malting quality
    Xiao-Qi Zhang, Sharon Westcott, Joe Panozzo, Mehmet Cakir, Stefan Harasymow

    Grain dormancy QTL identified in a doubled haploid barley population derived from two non-dormant parents
    L. T. Hickey, W. Lawson, V. N. Arief, G. Fox, J. Franckowiak, M. J. Dieters

    Seed development-related expression of ARGONAUTE4_9 class of genes in barley: possible role in seed dormancy
    Manjit Singh, Jaswinder Singh

    Stability of genome-wide QTL effects on malt ?-amylase activity in a barley doubled-haploid population
    R.-C. Yang, B. J. Ham

    Ant28 gene for proanthocyanidin synthesis encoding the R2R3 MYB domain protein (Hvmyb10) highly affects grain dormancy in barley
    Eiko Himi, Yuko Yamashita, Naoto Haruyama, Takashi Yanagisawa

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Avonia - 29 (4), 2011

Contents:
                                                                                           

Martinez-Palacios, Alejandro & Equiarte, Luis E.
Agave victoriae-reginae - die Wildpopulation und deren genetische Differenzierung

Thiede, Joachim
Die Geschichte und taxonomische Gliederung der Agave victoriae-reginae

Thiemer-Sachse, Ursula
Maquey: Mezcal - Medizin - Magie

Dornig, Volker
Euphorbia sepulta - eine polsterbildende Art aus Somalia

Ettelt, Jörg
Ein kurzer Bericht von einem Standort der Euphorbia characias ssp. characias auf Kreta

Küster, Karin
Sukkulenter Bonsai

Khanyile, Senzo
Der KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden

Brand, Thomas
Blattflecken an Yucca - verschiedene pilzliche Schaderreger

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Australian Systematic Botany - 25 (1), 2012

Contents:


An expanded phylogenetic analysis of Austrostipa (Poaceae: Stipeae) to test infrageneric relationships

Anna E. Syme, Daniel J. Murphy, Gareth D. Holmes, Stuart Gardner, Rachael Fowler and David J. Cantrill


An expanded molecular phylogeny of the southern bluebells (Wahlenbergia, Campanulaceae) from Australia and New Zealand

Jessica M. Prebble, Heidi M. Meudt and Phil J. Garnock-Jones


Revision of Pichonia (Sapotaceae) in New Caledonia

Ulf Swenson and Jérôme Munzinger


Morphological evaluation of the Drosera peltata complex (Droseraceae)

Robert Gibson, Barry J. Conn and Jeremy J. Bruhl


Corrigendum to: A revision of Commersonia including Rulingia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae)

C .F. Wilkins and B. A. Whitlock


Corrigendum to: A new Australian genus Androcalva separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae)

C .F. Wilkins and B. A. Whitlock



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Australian Journal of Botany - 60 (3), 2012

Contents:

    
Pollen morphology of the Myrtaceae. Part 1: tribes Eucalypteae, Lophostemoneae, Syncarpieae, Xanthostemoneae and subfamily Psiloxyloideae

Andrew H. Thornhill, Geoff S. Hope, Lyn A. Craven and Michael D. Crisp


Pollen morphology of the Myrtaceae. Part 2: tribes Backhousieae, Melaleuceae, Metrosidereae, Osbornieae and Syzygieae

Andrew H. Thornhill, Geoff S. Hope, Lyn A. Craven and Michael D. Crisp


Pollen morphology of the Myrtaceae. Part 3: tribes Chamelaucieae, Leptospermeae and Lindsayomyrteae

Andrew H. Thornhill, Peter G. Wilson, Jeff Drudge, Matthew D. Barrett, Geoff S. Hope, Lyn A. Craven and Michael D. Crisp


Pollen morphology of the Myrtaceae. Part 4: tribes Kanieae, Myrteae and Tristanieae

Andrew H. Thornhill, Geoff S. Hope, Lyn A. Craven and Michael D. Crisp


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Australian Journal of Crop Science - 6 (2), 2012

Contents:

An intelligent approach based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) for walnut sorting

Smail Khalifa, Mohammad Hassan Komarizadeh


Application of a spectral sensor for the assessment of nitrogen content in lettuce plants

M. Maleki, J. Massah, M. Dehghan


Molecular diversity of Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) using RAPD markers

Alireza Bahraminejad, Ghasem Mohammadi-Nejad, Mihdzar Abdul Kadir, Mohd Rafii Bin Yusop


The interactive effects of water and fertilizer on photosynthetic capacity and yield in tomato plants

Juanjuan Zhu, Yinli Liang, Yanli Zhu, Wanglin Hao, Xingjun Lin, Xing Wu, Anrong Luo


Drying of jujube (Zizyphus jujube Mill.) fruit: comparison of prediction from mathematical models and artificial neural networks

Ali Motevali, Ahmad Abbaszadeh, Gholam Hassan Najafi, Saeid Minaei, Barat Ghobadian


Vitrification and histological analyses of protocorm-like bodies of vanda kaseem’s delight orchid

Ranjetta Poobathy, Nor’Ain Ahmad Hesam, Advina Lizah Julkifle, Sreeramanan Subramaniam


Effect of 6-Benzylaminopurine on flowering of a Dendrobium orchid

Nisha Nambiar, Tee Chong Siang, Maziah Mahmood


Leaf senescence and photosynthesis in foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv] varieties exposed to drought conditions

Hui-Ping Dai, Chang-juan Shan, An-Zhi Wei, Tuxi Yang, Wen-Qing Sa, Bai-Li Feng


Simulation of salinity distribution in the overlap zone with double-point-source drip irrigation using HYDRUS-3D

Yuyang Shan, Quanjiu Wang


Hydrogen sulfide protects wheat seedlings against copper stress by regulating the ascorbate and glutathione metabolism in leaves

Changjuan Shan, Huiping Dai, Yanfang Sun


Evaluation of inhibitory effects of extracts of plants from western Iran against Phytophthora drechsleri

S.Bahraminejad, S.Abbasi, S.M.Maassoumi and S. Tabein


Morphological and molecular analyses define the genetic diversity of Asian bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.)

Dalamu, T.K Behera, A.B Gaikwad, Swati Saxena, C Bharadwaj, A.D Munshi


Genetic variation among Iranian pomegranates (Punica granatum L.) using RAPD, ISSR and SSR markers

Zahra Noormohammadi, Ali Fasihee, Saeed Homaee-Rashidpoor, Masoud Sheidai, Somayeh Ghasemzadeh Baraki, Ali Mazooji, Seyed Ziaedin Tabatabaee-Ardakani


Association of SSR markers with partial resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)

R. Darvishzadeh


Some physiological and enzymatic characterizations of Damask Rose accessions (Rosa damascena Mill.)

Bahareh Kashefi, Seyed Reza Tabaei-Aghdaei, Mohammad Matinizadeh, Amir Mousavi, Aliashraf Jafari


Assessment of clonal fidelity of micro-propagated guava (Psidium guajava) plants by ISSR markers

Xiaomei Liu, Guochen Yang


Molecular cloning, expression analysis and growth temperature dependent regulation of a novel oleate desaturase gene (fad2) homologue from Brassica juncea

Suresha G.S, Rai R.D, Santha I.M


Comparison of adaptive strategies of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) to salt and alkali stresses

Xiaoping Wang, Wanchao Chen, Ying Zhou, Jiayu Han, Jing Zhao, Decheng Shi, Chunwu Yang


Differential proteomic expressions between superior and inferior spikelets of rice in response to varied nitrogen treatments

Zhixing Zhang, Jun Chen, Zhong Li, Hongfei Chen, Changxun Fang, Jinwen Huang, Wenxiong Lin


Comparison of phenotypic and molecular characterizations of some important wheat cultivars and advanced breeding lines

Abdollah Najaphy, Reza Ashrafi Parchin, Ezatollah Farshadfar


Technology and field management for controlling soil salinity effects on cotton

Hezhong Dong


Genetic diversity in the foxtail millet (Setaria italica) germplasm as determined by agronomic traits and microsatellite markers

Heng-Sheng Lin, Gwo-Ing Liao, Chih-Yun Chiang, Chang-Sheng Kuoh, Song-Bin Chang


Management of leaf spot disease of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni with antagonistic bacteria

Surjit Sen, Gunjan Biswas, Saikat Kumar Basu, Krishnendu Acharya


Effect of NaCl salinity on water relations, photosynthesis and chemical composition of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) as a potential cash crop halophyte

S. Eisa, S. Hussin, N. Geissler, H.W. Koyro


Evaluation of Jelutong (Dyera cotulata) as a phytoremediator to uptake copper (Cu) from contaminated soils

Nik M. Majid, M.M. Islam, Redzuan Abdul Rauf


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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research - 44 (1), 2012

Contents:
In memoriam - James Bell Benedict (Addendum) 
    Peter W. Birkeland
  
Primary Succession of Surface Active Beetles and Spiders in an Alpine Glacier Foreland, Central South Norway
    Anders Thon Braten, Daniel Flo, Sigmund Hagvar, Oddvar Hanssen, Christian E. Mong, and Kjetil Aakra
   
Stem Secondary Growth of Tundra Shrubs: Impact of Environmental Factors and Relationships with Apical Growth 
    Matteo Campioli, Niki Leblans, and Anders Michelsen
  
Do High-Elevation Northern Red Oak Tree-Rings Share a Common Climate-Driven Growth Signal? 
    Christopher J. Crawford
  
Physics of a Thick Seasonal Snowpack with Possible Implications for Snow Algae 
    Adrienne Dove, Jennifer Heldmann, Christopher McKay, and Owen B. Toon
   
Effect of Drought Conditions on Plankton Community and on Nutrient Availability in an Oligotrophic High Mountain Lake 
    Fátima García-Jurado, Inmaculada de Vicente, Andrea Galotti, Andreas Reul, Francisco Jiménez-Gómez, and Francisco Guerrero
   
Plant Nutrient Content Does Not Simply Increase with Elevation under the Extreme Environmental Conditions of Ladakh, NW Himalaya 
    Petr Macek, Leoš Klimeš, Lubomír Adamec, Jiří Doležal, Zuzana Chlumská, Francesco de Bello, Miroslav Dvorský, and Klára Řeháková
  
Effects of Sheep Grazing on Availability and Leaching of Soil Nitrogen in Low-Alpine Grasslands 
    Vegard Martinsen, Jan Mulder, Gunnar Austrheim, Dag O. Hessen, and Atle Mysterud
    
Simulated Internal Storage Buildup, Release, and Runoff from Greenland Ice Sheet at Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland 
    Sebastian H. Mernild, Glen E. Liston, and Michiel van den Broeke
   
Physical, Chemical, and Thermal Properties of Soils across a Forest-Meadow Ecotone in the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah, U.S.A. 
    Jeffrey S. Munroe
    
Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India 
    Susanne Schmidt and Marcus Nüsser
   
Energy and Mass Balance of Forni Glacier (Stelvio National Park, Italian Alps) from a Four-Year Meteorological Data Record 
    Antonella Senese, Guglielmina Diolaiuti, Claudia Mihalcea, and Claudio Smiraglia
   
Phenological Changes in Alpine Plants in Response to Increased Snowpack, Temperature, and Nitrogen 
    Jane G. Smith, Warren Sconiers, Marko J. Spasojevic, Isabel W. Ashton, and Katharine N. Suding
   
Canopy Rainfall Interception and Fog Capture by Pinus pumila Regal at Mt. Tateyama in the Northern Japan Alps, Japan 
    Yoshitoshi Uehara and Atsushi Kume
   
Stefansson, Dr Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1918. A Story of Exploration, Science and Sovereignty, by Stuart E. Jenness   
    John T. Andrews
   
Climate Change in the Polar Regions, by John Turner and Gareth J. Marshall 
    Roger Barry
   
Calendar 
   

   
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Gorteria - 35 (6), 2012

Contents:

R. Haveman: Een nieuwe sleutel tot de secties van Hieracium L. subgenus Hieracium    

T. Denters: De verspreiding en ecologische positie van Marjoleinbekje (Chaenorhinum origanifolium (L.) Kostel) in Nederland
   
R.C.M.J. van Moorsel, A.M. Janssen & A. Zonderland: Salicornia pusilla Woods (Eenbloemige zeekraal) na 25 jaar weer aangetroffen in Nederland
        
J.H.P. Spronk: Campanula erinus L., nieuw voor de Nederlandse urbane flora    

Inhoud Gorteria deel 35    

Van de redactie    
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Gorteria - 35 (5), 2011

Contents:

J. Koopman: Carex ×ploegii hybr. nov. [= Carex otrubae Podp. × C. paniculata L.] (Cyperaceae)
 
E. Oosterveld: Lepelbladveenmos (Sphagnum platyphyllum (Braithw.) Warnst.) na 50 jaar terug in Nederland
   
B.F. van Tooren & M.C. van Westen: Het geslacht Micrasterias Ralfs (Desmidiaceae) in Nederland
   
R.J.W.M. van der Ham: Geschubde mannetjesvaren in Nederland voor het eerst op een muur gevonden
   

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Lethaia - 45 (1-2), 2012

Lethaia - 45 (1), 2012



Contents:

Corals and other reef builders

    
    Corals and other reef-builders (page 1)

    ALAN W. OWEN, PETER DOYLE, DAVID A.T. HARPER and BROOKS B. BRITT

   
    Self-organization and emergent individuality of favositid corals adapted to live on soft substrates (pages 2–13)

    ADOLF SEILACHER and ROGER D.K. THOMAS

   
    The oldest bryozoan reefs: a unique Early Ordovician skeletal framework construction (pages 14–23)

    NATSUKO ADACHI, YOICH EZAKI and JIANBO LIU

 
    Lucky rugose corals on crinoid stems: unusual examples of subepidermal epizoans from the Devonian of Morocco (pages 24–33)

    BŁAŻEJ BERKOWSKI and CHRISTIAN KLUG

 
    Early Cretaceous record of microboring organisms in skeletons of growing corals (pages 34–45)

    BOGUSŁAW KOŁODZIEJ, STJEPKO GOLUBIC, IOAN I. BUCUR, GUDRUN RADTKE and ALINE TRIBOLLET

   
    Post-tectonic limitations on Early Devonian (Emsian) reef development in the Gobi-Altai region, Mongolia (pages 46–61)

    ADAM F. A. PELLEGRINI, CONSTANCE M. SOJA and CHULUUN MINJIN

   
    Constraints on the formation of colonies of the extant azooxanthellate scleractinian coral Dendrophyllia arbuscula (pages 62–70)

    ASUKA SENTOKU and YOICHI EZAKI

    
Articles

  
    Plant fossil record and survival analyses (pages 71–82)

    BORJA CASCALES-MINANA and CHRISTOPHER J. CLEAL

   
    The lobes and lobopods of Opabinia regalis from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (pages 83–95)

    GRAHAM E. BUDD and ALLISON C. DALEY

   
    Was the European cave bear an occasional scavenger? (pages 96–108)

    RAQUEL RABAL-GARCÉS, GLORIA CUENCA-BESCÓS, JOSÉ IGNACIO CANUDO and TRINIDAD DE TORRES

  
    Middle–Late Permian tetrapods from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Southern Brazil: a biostratigraphic reassessment (pages 109–120)

    SÉRGIO DIAS-DA-SILVA

   
    An exceptional storm accumulation of nautilids in the Lower Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina (pages 121–138)

    MARCELA CICHOWOLSKI, PABLO J. PAZOS, MAISA A. TUNIK and MARÍA B. AGUIRRE-URRETA

    
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Lethaia - 45 (2), 2012



Contents:


Lethaia Review


    Does mutual sexual selection explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs? (pages 139–156)

    DAVID W.E. HONE, DARREN NAISH and INNES C. CUTHILL

  
Articles


    The bite force of the largest fossil rodent (Hystricognathi, Caviomorpha, Dinomyidae) (pages 157–163)

    R. ERNESTO BLANCO, ANDRÉS RINDERKNECHT and GUSTAVO LECUONA

  
    Dynamic palaeoredox and exceptional preservation in the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah (pages 164–177)

    DANIEL E. GARSON, ROBERT R. GAINES, MARY L. DROSER, W. DAVID LIDDELL and AARON SAPPENFIELD

   
    Morphology and environment in the Jurassic Nucleatidae (Brachiopoda) from Western Tethys (pages 178–190)

    JORGE COLÁS and FERNANDO GARCÍA JORAL

   
    Microstructure and mineralogy of the outer calcareous layer in the lower jaws of Cretaceous Tetragonitoidea and Desmoceratoidea (Ammonoidea) (pages 191–199)

    KAZUSHIGE TANABE, NEIL H. LANDMAN and ISABELLE KRUTA

   
    Rib and vertebral micro-anatomical characteristics of hydropelvic mosasauroids (pages 200–209)

    ALEXANDRA HOUSSAYE and NATHALIE BARDET

  
    Biological controls upon the physical taphonomy of exceptionally preserved salamanders from the Miocene of Rubielos de Mora, northeast Spain (pages 210–226)

    MARIA E. MCNAMARA, PATRICK J. ORR, TOM MANZOCCHI, LUIS ALCALÁ, PERE ANADÓN and ENRIQUE PENALVER

   
    Re-evaluation of the conodont Iapetognathus and implications for the base of the Ordovician System GSSP (pages 227–237)

    FREDRIK TERFELT, GABRIELLA BAGNOLI and SVEND STOUGE

    
    Late Jurassic footprints reveal walking kinematics of theropod dinosaurs (pages 238–252)

    MARCO AVANZINI, LAURA PINUELA and JOSÉ CARLOS GARCÍA-RAMOS

   
    Preliminary assessment of the use of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) in conodonts (pages 253–258)

    ALBERTO PÉREZ-HUERTA, MAGGIE CUSACK and CARLOS A. MÉNDEZ

   
    Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA and a model for silicification at seeps (pages 259–273)

    RONY R. KUECHLER, DANIEL BIRGEL, STEFFEN KIEL, ANDRÉ FREIWALD, JAMES L. GOEDERT, VOLKER THIEL and JÖRN PECKMANN

   
    Traces of predation/parasitism recorded in Eocene brachiopods from the Castle Hayne Limestone, North Carolina, USA (pages 274–289)

    MAJKEN K. SCHIMMEL, MICHAŁ KOWALEWSKI and BRIAN P. COFFEY

   
    Ethological analysis of the trace fossil Zoophycos: hints from the Arctic Ocean (pages 290–298)

    LUDVIG LÖWEMARK

   

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (47), 2011

Contents:

Review


Mustafa Korkmaz and Hasan Özçelik

Economic importance of Gypsophila L., Ankyropetalum Fenzl and Saponaria L. (Caryophyllaceae) taxa of Turkey


Raisa Bano, Sahar Fazal, Mohammad Haroon Khan and Hamid Rashid

miRNAs: Small but deadly


Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Xiao-ming Zhao, Guo-qing Wei, Chao-liang Liu, Chang-rui Zou and Bao-jian Zhu

Linkage and mapping analyses of the no glue egg gene Ng in the silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) using simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers


Zhigang Wu, Wei Ning, Yaosheng Wang, Shuangshuang Lv, Yabo Zhao and Xin Zhao

Genetic diversity of taraxacum germplasm revealed by sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) analysis


Yun Li, Zhi Liu, Qiang Cai, Guangsheng Yang, Qingbiao He and Pingwu Liu

Identification of a microsatellite marker linked to the fertility-restoring gene for a polima cytoplasmic male-sterile line in Brassica napus L.


Khierallah, H., Bader, S., Baum, M. and Hamwieh, A.

Assessment of genetic diversity for some Iraqi date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) markers


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Meseldzija Maja and Konstantinovic Branko

Activity of acetolactate synthase (ALS) of redroot pigweed in relation to imazethapyr application


Ebiamadon Andi Brisibe, Sophia Eloho Adugbo, Uduak Ekanem, Fraideh Brisibe and Glyn Mara Figueira

Controlling bruchid pests of stored cowpea seeds with dried leaves of Artemisia annua and two other common botanicals


Y. Benal Yurtlu

Drying characteristics of bay laurel (Laurus nobilis L.) fruits in a convective hot-air dryer


Onyeonagu, C. C. and Asiegbu, J. E.

Preliminary study of the contribution of native legumes to the nitrogen economy of natural grasslands


Fahri Yigit

Acibenzolar-S-methyl induces lettuce resistance against Xanthomonas campestris pv. vitians


Yan Zhao, Ruolan Wang, Kang Tu and Kunlun Liu

Efficacy of preharvest spraying with Pichia guilliermondii on postharvest decay and quality of cherry tomato fruit during storage


Sonia Ruiz, Lourdes Adriano, Isidro Ovando, Cuauhtemoc Navarro and Miguel Salvador

Biofertilization of micropropagated Agave tequilana: Effect on plant growth and production of hydrolytic enzymes


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Qi-Chun Zhang, Ying-ying Liang, Imran Haider Shamsi, Guang-huo Wang, Li-ping Lou and Nazim Hussain

Surface runoff and phosphorus (P) loss from bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) forest ecosystem in southeast China


Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Xiao-yu Xie, Muhammad Farooq, Long-chang Wang, Lan-lan Xue, Muhammad Shahbaz and Jalaladeen Salhab

Effect of exogenous methyl jasmonate on growth, gas exchange and chlorophyll contents of soybean subjected to drought


Saberi A. R., Siti Aishah H., R. A. Halim and Zaharah A. R.

Morphological responses of forage sorghums to salinity and irrigation frequency


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY


Doughari, James Hamuel

Production of ß-glucanase enzyme from Penicillium oxalicum and Penicillium citrinum


Monique Meiko Takeda de Almeida Alves, Ravely Casarotti Orlandelli, Daniela Andressa Lino Lourenço and Joao Alencar Pamphile

Toxicity of the insect growth regulator lufenuron on the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin assessed by conidia germination speed parameter


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Seyed Ali Mortazavi and Alireza Sadeghi

Investigating the sourdough potential for enhance microbiological shelf life and roasty aroma of traditional Lavash bread


R. Amooaghaie and S. Moghym

Effect of polyamines on thermotolerance and membrane stability of soybean seedling


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


ByungHoon Park, YoungHan Kim, JaeDeok Lee, JaeWon Park, HyoJeong Lee, SungMook Yoo, DaeKwang Cho, ByungKu Park, DaMi Song, DongWan Kim and Sangdeog A. Kim

Sorghum cobalt analysis on not determined wave length with atomic absorption spectrophotometer on background correction mode


Suntud Sirianuntapiboon and Tusanee Tondee

Melanoidin decolorization mechanism and some properties of Issatchenkia orientalis No.SF9-246


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Dib-Bellahouel, S. and Fortas, Z.

Antibacterial activity of various fractions of ethyl acetate extract from the desert truffle, Tirmania pinoyi, preliminarily analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)


I. O. Ademola and J. N. Eloff

Anthelmintic efficacy of cashew (Anarcadium occidentale L.) on in vitro susceptibility of the ova and larvae of Haemonchus contortus


ANIMAL SCIENCE


N. D. Davachi, H. Kohram and S. Zeinoaldini

Effect of the presence of corpus luteum on the ovary and the new oocyte recovery method on the oocyte recovery rate and meiotic competence of ovine oocytes


Kai Quan, Xingxu Zhao, Changxing Zhang, Qiuliang Xu, Hongfang We, Junjie Hu and Yong Zhang

A novel approach for very early pregnancy diagnosis in swine by anti-early pregnancy factor (EPF) antiserum blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)


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Plant Pathology - 60 (5-6), 2011

Plant Pathology - 60 (5), 2011



Contents:


Review


Spore traps need improvement to fulfil plant biosecurity requirements (pages 801–810)

S. L. Jackson and K. L. Bayliss


Original Articles


Direct evidence of surface infestation of seeds and tubers by Plasmodiophora brassicae and quantification of spore loads (pages 811–819)

D. C. Rennie, V. P. Manolii, T. Cao, S. F. Hwang, R. J. Howard and S. E. Strelkov


Influence of cultivar resistance and inoculum density on root hair infection of canola (Brassica napus) by Plasmodiophora brassicae (pages 820–829)

S. F. Hwang, H. U. Ahmed, Q. Zhou, S. E. Strelkov, B. D. Gossen, G. Peng and G. D. Turnbull


Effect of temperature on primary infection by Plasmodiophora brassicae and initiation of clubroot symptoms (pages 830–838)

K. Sharma, B. D. Gossen and M. R. McDonald


Characterization of the rust resistance gene present in the common bean cultivar Ouro Negro, the main rust resistance source used in Brazil (pages 839–845)

T. L. P. O. de Souza, S. N. Dessaune, D. A. Sanglard, M. A. Moreira and E. G. de Barros


Resistance to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. avenae) in oat seedlings and adult plants (pages 846–856)

J. Sánchez-Martín, D. Rubiales and E. Prats


A simulation study on managing plant diseases by systematically altering spatial positions of cultivar mixture components between seasons (pages 857–865)

X.-M. Xu


Development and application of new molecular markers for analysis of genetic diversity in Verticillium dahliae populations (pages 866–877)

M. Berbegal, C. D. Garzón, A. Ortega, J. Armengol, R. M. Jiménez-Díaz and M. M. Jiménez-Gasco


Relative importance of different types of inoculum to the establishment of Mycosphaerella graminicola in wheat crops in north-west Europe (pages 878–889)

F. Suffert and I. Sache


Effects of temperature, water regime and irrigation system on the release of ascospores of Mycosphaerella nawae, causal agent of circular leaf spot of persimmon (pages 890–908)

A. Vicent, D. D. M. Bassimba and D. S. Intrigliolo


Phylogenetic and morphological identification of Colletotrichum boninense: a novel causal agent of anthracnose in avocado (pages 899–908)

H. V. Silva-Rojas and G. D. Ávila-Quezada


Trichothecene genotypes of Gibberella zeae from winter wheat fields in the eastern USA (pages 909–917)

D. G. Schmale, A. K. Wood-Jones, C. Cowger, G. C. Bergstrom and C. Arellano


Proteome analysis of Fusarium infection in emmer grains (Triticum dicoccum) (pages 918–928)

K. Eggert, C. Zörb, K. H. Mühling and E. Pawelzik


Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the barley pathogen Ramularia collo-cygni with fluorescent marker tags and live tissue imaging of infection development (pages 929–937)

A. Thirugnanasambandam, K. M. Wright, N. Havis, S. C. Whisson and A. C. Newton


Tracking Phytophthora infestans with SSR markers within and between seasons – a field study in Sweden (pages 938–945)

A.-K. Widmark, B. Andersson, M. Sandström and J. E. Yuen


A simple detached leaf assay provides rapid and inexpensive determination of pathogenicity of Pythium isolates to ‘all year round’ (AYR) chrysanthemum roots (pages 946–956)

T. R. Pettitt, M. F. Wainwright, A. J. Wakeham and J. G. White


Biological and genetic characterization of Phytophthora capsici mutants resistant to flumorph (pages 957–966)

Q. X. Meng, X. L. Cui, Y. Bi, Q. Wang, J. J. Hao and X. L. Liu


Resistance to Plum pox virus in plants expressing cytosolic and nuclear single-chain antibodies against the viral RNA NIb replicase (pages 967–976)

M. Gil, O. Esteban, J. A. García, L. Pena and M. Cambra


Unstable green fluorescent protein for study of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri survival on citrus (pages 977–985)

J. Cubero, I. Gell, E. G. Johnson, A. Redondo and J. H. Graham


Distribution of canker lesions on the surface of diseased grapefruit (pages 986–991)

C. H. Bock, T. R. Gottwald and P. E. Parker


The yam nematode (Scutellonema bradys), a potential threat to potato (Solanum tuberosum) production in West Africa (pages 992–997)

D. L. Coyne, L. I. Akpheokhai and A. F. Adeniran


Book Review


Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Crop Production (page 998)

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Plant Pathology - 60 (6), 2011



Contents:

Review


Control of blackleg and tuber soft rot of potato caused by Pectobacterium and Dickeya species: a review (pages 999–1013)

R. Czajkowski, M. C. M. Pérombelon, J. A. van Veen and J. M. van der Wolf


Original Articles


Increased plant tolerance against chrysanthemum yellows phytoplasma (‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris’) following double inoculation with Glomus mosseae BEG12 and Pseudomonas putida S1Pf1Rif (pages 1014–1022)

R. D’Amelio, G. Berta, E. Gamalero, N. Massa, L. Avidano, S. Cantamessa, G. D’Agostino, D. Bosco and C. Marzachi


New natural host plants of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pini’ in Poland and the Czech Republic (pages 1023–1029)

M. Kamińska, H. Berniak and J. Obdrzalek


First identification of a sweet potato begomovirus (sweepovirus) in Uganda: characterization, detection and distribution (pages 1030–1039)

P. Wasswa, B. Otto, M. N. Maruthi, S. B. Mukasa, W. Monger and R. W. Gibson


Chilli leaf curl Palampur virus is a distinct begomovirus species associated with a betasatellite (pages 1040–1047)

Y. Kumar, V. Hallan and A. A. Zaidi


Impact of tobacco recessive resistance gene va on biological properties of Brazilian Potato virus Y (PVY) isolates (pages 1048–1054)

C. Lacroix, L. Glais, J.-L. Verrier, C. Charlier, C. Lorencetti and E. Jacquot


Two novel and potentially endemic species of Phytophthora associated with episodic dieback of Kwongan vegetation in the south-west of Western Australia (pages 1055–1068)

A. J. Rea, T. I. Burgess, G. E. St J. Hardy, M. J. C. Stukely and T. Jung


Genetic diversity, sensitivity to phenylamide fungicides and aggressiveness of Phytophthora ramorum on Camellia, Rhododendron and Viburnum plants in Spain (pages 1069–1076)

A. Pérez-Sierra, L. A. Álvarez, A. Vercauteren, K. Heungens and P. Abad-Campos


Potential for eradication of the exotic plant pathogens Phytophthora kernoviae and Phytophthora ramorum during composting (pages 1077–1085)

R. Noble, J. Blackburn, G. Thorp, A. Dobrovin-Pennington, S. Pietravalle, G. Kerins, T. R. Allnutt and C. M. Henry


Phosphite primed defence responses and enhanced expression of defence genes in Arabidopsis thaliana infected with Phytophthora cinnamomi (pages 1086–1095)

L. Eshraghi, J. Anderson, N. Aryamanesh, B. Shearer, J. McComb, G. E. StJ. Hardy and P. A. O’Brien


Spread and development of quambalaria shoot blight in spotted gum plantations (pages 1096–1106)

G. S. Pegg, H. Nahrung, A. J. Carnegie, M. J. Wingfield and A. Drenth


Variability in aggressiveness of Quambalaria pitereka isolates (pages 1107–1117)

G. S. Pegg, L. S. Shuey, A. J. Carnegie, M. J. Wingfield and A. Drenth


Detection of botryosphaeriaceous species in environmental samples using a multi-species primer pair (pages 1118–1127)

H. J. Ridgway, N. T. Amponsah, D. S. Brown, J. Baskarathevan, E. E. Jones and M. V. Jaspers


Characterization of monilia disease caused by Monilinia linhartiana on quince in southern Spain (pages 1128–1139)

J. Moral, C. Munoz-Díez, D. Cabello, O. Arquero, M. Lovera, M. J. Benítez and A. Trapero


A rapid differential staining technique for Fusarium pseudograminearum in cereal tissues during crown rot infections (pages 1140–1143)

N. L. Knight and M. W. Sutherland


Development and validation of a standard area diagram set to estimate severity of leaf rust in Coffea arabica and C. canephora (pages 1144–1150)

A. S. Capucho, L. Zambolim, H. S. S. Duarte and G. R. O. Vaz


Wax matters: absence of very-long-chain aldehydes from the leaf cuticular wax of the glossy11 mutant of maize compromises the prepenetration processes of Blumeria graminis (pages 1151–1161)

A. Hansjakob, M. Riederer and U. Hildebrandt


Genetic control of sorghum resistance to leaf anthracnose (pages 1162–1168)

R. V. da Costa, L. Zambolim, L. V. Cota, D. D. da Silva, J. A. S. Rodrigues, F. D. Tardin and C. R. Casela


Spatial characteristics of white mould epidemics and the development of sequential sampling plans in Australian bean fields (pages 1169–1182)

S. J. Jones, D. H. Gent, S. J. Pethybridge and F. S. Hay


Letter to the Editor


Letter to the Editor (page 1183)

N. Magan


Corrigendum


Corrigendum: Use of a real-time LAMP isothermal assay for detecting 16SrII and XII phytoplasmas in fruit and weeds of the Ethiopian Rift Valley (page 1183)

M. Dickinson


Book Review


Natural Products in Plant Pest Management (page 1184)

Steve Rossall


A Note from the Editor


A Note from the Editor (page 1184)

Matt Dickinson


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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

Corrigendum

Corrigendum

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Novon - 21 (3), 2011 (new species Hoya jianfenglingensis)

Contents:

A New Species of Diploid Quillwort (Isoetes, Isoetaceae, Lycophyta) from Lebanon

Jay F. Bolin, Rebecca D. Bray, and Lytton John Musselman


Review of Chinese Spiraea (Rosaceae, Spiraeoideae) with Simple Inflorescences

Roman Businský


A New Species and One New Name in Castanopsis (Fagaceae) from Hainan, China

Li Chen, Zi-Gang Zhang, Ying Hu, Xin-Wei Li, and Jian-Qiang Li


Inga pitmanii (Fabaceae), a New Species from Madre de Dios, Peru

Kyle G. Dexter, Terence D. Pennington


New Combinations Within the Briza Complex (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae)

Liliana Essi, Hilda Maria Longhi Wagner and Tatiana Teixeira de Souza Chies


Nomenclatural Changes for Zornia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Dalbergieae) in Brazilno access

Ana Paula Fortuna-Perez, Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo Tozzi


A New Species of Gaultheria (Ericaceae) from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia

Peter W. Fritsch, Catherine M. Bush


Hoya jianfenglingensis (Apocynaceae), a New Species from Hainan, China

Shao-yun He, Ping-tao Li and Jia-yi Lin, Guoyang Lin, Hui-lan Zeng


Senecio ser. Chilenses, a New Name for Senecio ser. Suffruticosi (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) from Southern South America

Mariana Gabriela López and Arturo Federico Wulff, Cecilia Carmen Xifreda


Musella lasiocarpa var. rubribracteata (Musaceae), a New Variety from Sichuan, China

Ma Hong, Pan Qingjie, Wang Lan, Li Zhenghong, Wan Youming, and Liu Xiuxian


A New Combination in the Fern Genus Osmundastrum (Osmundaceae)

William A. McAvoy


The Identity of Synandropus and a New Combination in Neotropical Menispermaceaeno access

Rosa del C. Ortiz


A New Species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae) from Chihuahua, Mexico

Ivón M. Ramírez Morillo, Adolfo Espejo-Serna and Ana Rosa López-Ferrari


A New Awned Species of Paspalum (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) from Brazilno access

Desirée M. Ramos, José F. M. Valls, Regina Célia de Oliveira, and Dalva Graciano-Ribeiro


A New Combination in Spiraea (Rosaceae) from Ulleung Island, Korea

Hyunchur Shin, Young-Dong Kim, Sang-Hun Oh


Manglietia crassifolia (Magnoliaceae), a New Species from Vietnam

Vu Quang Nam , Xia Nian-He, Sima Yong-Kang


Davallia napoensis, a New Species of Davalliaceae from Guangxi, China

Wang Fa-Guo, Chen Hong-Feng, and Xing Fu-Wu


Petrocosmea huanjiangensis, a New Species of Gesneriaceae from Limestone Areas in Guangxi, Chinano access

Wei-bin Xu, Bo Pan, and Yan Liu


Fallopia multiflora var. angulata, a New Combination in the Polygonaceae from China

Yan Hanjing, Fang Zhijian, Zhang Hongyi, and Yu Shixiao


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Kew Bulletin - 65 (4), 2010

Contents:

Plant Conservation for the Next Decade: A Celebration of Kew’s 250th Anniversary


Plant conservation for the next decade: a celebration of Kew’s 250th anniversary

Stephen D. Hopper


A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Ghillean T. Prance


Using the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation to guide conservation implementation in the UK Overseas Territories

Colin Clubbe, Martin Hamilton and Marcella Corcoran


Species-richness of the living collections of the world’s botanical gardens — patterns within continents

Ingrid Parmentier and Marco Pautasso


Policies for plant diversity conservation on a global scale: a Nitrogen driver analysis

Cristina Cruz, Teresa Dias, Pedro Pinho, Cristina Branquinho and Cristina Máguas, et al.


Ecological skills: mind the gap(s)

Jill Sutcliffe and Clare O’Reilly


The possibilities and challenges of in vitro methods for plant conservation

Valerie C. Pence


Importance of in vitro technology to future conservation programmes worldwide

Viswambharan Sarasan


Genetic Resources of Cynara spp. an AGR GEN RES European Project CYNARES

M. A. Pagnotta


A global approach to crop wild relative conservation: securing the gene pool for food and agriculture

Nigel Maxted, Shelagh Kell, Álvaro Toledo, Ehsan Dulloo and Vernon Heywood, et al.


The socio-economic importance of wild vegetable resources and their conservation: a case study from China

Xiaobo Zou, Fengqiu Huang, Limin Hao, Jiewen Zhao and Hanpin Mao, et al.


Aliens or natives: who are the ‘thugs’ in British woods?

R. H. Marrs, M. G. Le Duc, S. M. Smart, K. J. Kirby and R. G. H. Bunce, et al.


The contribution of the Millennium Seed Bank Project to ex situ plant conservation in Chile

P. León-Lobos, M. Way, M. Rosas, A. Sandoval and H. W. Pritchard


Cycad propagation by rural nurseries in Mexico as an alternative conservation strategy: 20 years on

A. P. Vovides, M. A. Pérez-Farrera and C. Iglesias


An ecosystem approach to restoration and sustainable management of dry forest in southern Peru

Oliver Q. Whaley, David G. Beresford-Jones, William Milliken, Alfonso Orellana and Anna Smyk, et al.


Ex situ conservation of some endemic and protected plant species in Georgia

Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia, Tinatin Barblishvili, Clare Trivedi, David Kikodze and Manana Khutsishvili


Criteria for assessing Italian ex situ collections of threatened plants

G. Bedini and A. Carta


Partnering conservation actions. Inter situ solutions to recover threatened species in South West Western Australia

J. A. Cochrane, S. Barrett, L. Monks and R. Dillon


Conservation of native plant diversity at the Yerevan Botanic Garden, Armenia

J. A. Akopian


The evolutionary analysis of human behaviour: its potential to increase plant conservation success

Roger D. Smith


‘All netted together’: is there a need for cultural consilience in the face of extinction?

Dawn Sanders


Conservation of some rare and endangered plants from Peninsular Malaysia

L. G. Saw, L. S. L. Chua, M. Suhaida, W. S. Y. Yong and M. Hamidah


Amazon vegetation: how much don’t we know and how much does it matter?

William Milliken, Daniela Zappi, Denise Sasaki, Mike Hopkins and R. Toby Pennington

Journal of Vegetation Science - 23 (1), 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Editors’ Award, experimental approaches, functional traits and ecoinformatics (pages 1–3)

J. Bastow Wilson, Alessandro Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý and Meelis Pärtel


Orginal Articles


Initial species pattern affects invasion resistance in experimental grassland plots (pages 4–12)

Kathryn A. Yurkonis, Brian J. Wilsey and Kirk A. Moloney


Original Articles

Fire and herbivory are not substitutable: evidence from regrowth patterns and changes in physical and chemical defences in Acacia seedlings (pages 13–23)

Jeff W. Hean and David Ward


The right relevé in the right vegetation unit: a new typicality index to reproduce expert judgement with an automatic classification programme (pages 24–32)

Jean-Claude Gégout and Christophe Coudun


Invasive non-native species attributes and invasion extent: examining the importance of grain size (pages 33–40)

Munemitsu Akasaka, Masayuki Takada, Rie Kitagawa and Hiroshi Igarashi


Responses of grassland species richness to local and landscape factors depend on spatial scale and habitat specialization (pages 41–51)

Triin Reitalu, Oliver Purschke, Lotten J. Johansson, Karin Hall, Martin T. Sykes and Honor C. Prentice


Testing general predictions of the stress gradient hypothesis under high inter- and intra-specific nurse shrub variability along a climatic gradient (pages 52–61)

Jaime Madrigal-González, José A. García-Rodríguez and Gonzalo Alarcos-Izquierdo


Unexpected mechanisms sustain the stress gradient hypothesis in a tropical alpine environment (pages 62–72)

Fabien Anthelme, Belen Buendia, Charlotte Mazoyer and Olivier Dangles


Original articles


Primary succession trajectories on pumice at Mount St. Helens, Washington (pages 73–85)

Roger del Moral, Lindsay A. Thomason, Anthony C. Wenke, Natasha Lozanoff and Mario D. Abata


Original Articles


Disturbance history of an old-growth sub-alpine Picea abies stand in the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic (pages 86–97)

Miroslav Svoboda, Pavel Janda, Thomas A. Nagel, Shawn Fraver, Jan Rejzek and Radek Bače


Disentangling plant trait responses to livestock grazing from spatio-temporal variation: the partial RLQ approach (pages 98–113)

Dirk Wesuls, Jens Oldeland and Stéphane Dray


Patterns and controls of above-ground net primary production in meadows of Patagonia. A remote sensing approach (pages 114–126)

J. Gonzalo N. Irisarri, Martín Oesterheld, José M. Paruelo and Marcos A. Texeira


Influences of watershed geomorphology on extent and composition of riparian vegetation (pages 127–139)

Blake M. Engelhardt, Peter J. Weisberg and Jeanne C. Chambers


The influence of landscape-level heterogeneity in fire frequency on canopy composition in the boreal forest of eastern Canada (pages 140–150)

Dominic Cyr, Sylvie Gauthier and Yves Bergeron


Sudden oak death disease progression across two forest types and spatial scales (pages 151–163)

Benjamin S. Ramage, Alison B. Forrestel, Max A. Moritz and Kevin L. O'Hara


Juvenile–adult tree associations in a continental Mediterranean ecosystem: no evidence for sustained and general facilitation at increased aridity (pages 164–175)

Elena Granda, Adrián Escudero, Marcelino de la Cruz and Fernando Valladares


Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities (pages 176–186)

Marcos B. Carlucci, Helena Streit, Leandro D.S. Duarte and Valério D. Pillar


Reconstructing savanna tree cover from pollen, phytoliths and stable carbon isotopes (pages 187–197)

Julie Aleman, Bérangere Leys, Roger Apema, Ilham Bentaleb, Marc A. Dubois, Barthélémy Lamba, Judicaël Lebamba, Céline Martin, Alfred Ngomanda, Loic Truc, Jean-Michel Yangakola, Charly Favier and Laurent Bremond


Reviewers List


Reviewers List (pages 198–200)


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (21-25), 2011

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (21), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles


U. U. Pateh, I. M. Sule, I. Iliya, A. K. Harun, A. H. Yaro, A. A. Ambi and A. M. Musa

Analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities of the methanolic extract of the rhizomes of Stylochiton lancifolius pyre and Kotchy (Araceae) in rodents


Apaporn Boonmee, Chantragan Srisomsap, Aphichart Karnchanatat and Polkit Sangvanich

Biologically active proteins from Curcuma comosa Roxb. rhizomes


Alya Maimoona, Ismat Naeem, Zeb Saddiqe and Niaz Ali

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


Chia-Yuan Liu, Yuen-Liang Lai, Chin-Ping Lin, Yu-Tse Wu, Tung-Hu Tsai and Yu-Jen Chen

Anti-tumor effect of Archidendron lucidum (benth) against esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer and hepatoma


Jun-Li Hong, Hai-Yan Zhou, Jie Zhu, Li Li, Pan Shu, Xiao-Ying Qin, Gang Wu, Bin-Bin Lin, Guo-Kai Wang, Qiang Wang and Min-Jian Qin

Comparative analysis of major constituents in Viola yedoensis Makino and different species from the Genus Viola by high-performance liquid chromatography with chemometrics methods


Aimin Ji, Yufa Yao, Ou Che, Bingjun Wang, Liang Sun, Xiaodong Li and Feng Xu

Isolation and characterization of sulfated polysaccharide from the Sargassum pallidum (Turn.) C. Ag. and its sedative/hypnotic activity


Rabia Naz, Asghari Bano, Humaira Yasmin, Samiullah and Uzma Farooq

Antimicrobial potential of the selected plant species against some infectious microbes used


F. Goodarzi, R. Darvishzadeh, A. Hassani and A. Hassanzaeh

Study on genetic variation in Iranian castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) accessions using multivariate statistical techniques


Sha Sha Chu, Shao Liang Liu, Qi Zhi Liu, Zhi Long Liu and Shu Shan Du

Composition and toxicity of Chinese Dracocephalum moldavica (Labiatae) essential oil against two grain storage insects


Wei Li, Qiong Liu, Lin He, Juan-juan Bi and Xiu-feng Ye

Effect of ursolic acid extracted from Chinese herbs on the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells and its underlying mechanisms



Sang-Kyung Shin, Tae-Wang Kim, So-Young Youm, Youngsoo Kim and Byeongwoo Ahn

Quercetin 3-O-ß-(2"-galloyl)-rhamnopyranoside promotes the differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells or early progenitor cells into erythroid lineage in mice


Tan K. Lee and Charles S. Vairappan

Antioxidant, antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of essential oils and ethanol extracts of selected South East Asian herbs


Abolghasem Jouyban, Mohammadali M. Shoja, Mohammad Reza Ardalan, Maryam Khoubnasabjafari, Alireza Sadighi, R. Shane Tubbs, Paul S. Agutter and Kamyar Ghabili

The effect of quince leaf decoction on renal injury induced by hypercholesterolemia in rabbits: A pilot study


Hedi Mighri, Ahmed Akrout and Mohamed Neffati

Assessment of essential oil yield of Artemisia herba-alba cultivated in Tunisian arid zone


W. S. Tavares, I. Cruz, F. Petacci, S. S. Freitas, J. E. Serrao and J. C. Zanuncio

Insecticide activity of piperine: Toxicity to eggs of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and phytotoxicity on several vegetables


Chao Sun, Yongqiao Sun, Jingyuan Song, Chenji Li, Xiwen Li, Xiaowei Zhang, Ying Li, Songnian Hu, Hongmei Luo, Yingjie Zhu and Shilin Chen

Discovery of genes related to steroidal alkaloid biosynthesis in Fritillaria cirrhosa by generating and mining a dataset of expressed sequence tags (ESTs)


Nyenje M. and Ndip R. N.

In-vitro antimicrobial activity of crude acetone extract of the stem bark of Combretum molle against selected bacterial pathogens


K. Abdullahi, M. G. Abubakar, R. A. Umar, M. S. Gwarzo, M. Muhammad and H. M. Ibrahim

Studies on the larvicidal efficacy of aqueous extracts of Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth and Mitracarpus scaber (Zucc) on Culex quinquefasciatus (culicidae) mosquito larvae




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (22), 2011


Contents:

Review


Ajay Thakur

Juglone: A therapeutic phytochemical from Juglans regia L.


Hyoungmin Suh, Se Myung Seo, Su Young Woo and Dong-Sup Lee

Forest cultivated ginseng in Korea: All cure medicinal plants


M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, H. M. Asif, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Arshad Mahmood and Nadia Shamshad Malik

A review of diabetes mellitus


Ghazala Shaheen, Irshad Ahmad, Arshad Mehmood, Naveed Akhter, Khan Usmanghani, Tahira Shamim, S. M. Ali Shah, Laila Sumreen and M. Akram

Monograph of Vaccinium macrocarpon


Research Articles


Egunyomi, A., Gbadamosi, I. T. and Animashahun, M. O.

Hypoglycaemic activity of the ethanol extract of Ageratum conyzoides linn. shoots on alloxan-induced diabetic rats


Chhaya Rathore, K. R. Dutt, Shobharam Sahu and Lokesh Deb

Antiasthmatic activity of the methanolic extract of Physalis angulata Linn.


Palwinder Kaur, Nilesh Kumar, T. N. Shivananda and Gagandeep Kaur

Phytochemical screening and antimicrobial activity of the plant extracts of Mimosa pudica L. against selected microbes


Sarah Khorasaninejad, Amir Mousavi, Hassan Soltanloo, Khodayar Hemmati and Ahmad Khalighi

The effect of drought stress on growth parameters, essential oil yield and constituent of Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.)


Akuodor G. C., Mbah C. C., Anyalewechi N. A., Idris-Usman M. Iwuanyanwu T. C. and Osunkwo U. A.

Pharmacological profile of aqueous extract of Bridelia ferruginea stem bark in the relief of pain and fever


Zaixiang Lou, Hongxin Wang, Jing Li, Song Zhu, Wenping Lu and Chaoyang Ma

Effect of simultaneous ultrasonic/microwave assisted extraction on the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of burdock leaves


Gholamreza Dehghan Noudeh, Fariba Sharififar, Effat Behravan, Ehsan Mohajeri and Vahid Alinia

Medicinal plants as surface activity modifiers


Ka Hee Kwon, Min Ki Hong, Sun Young Hwang, Bo Youn Moon, Sook Shin, Jin Hong Baek and Yong Ho Park

Antimicrobial and immunomodulatory effects of Aloe vera peel extract


Zaki Tubesha, Shahid Iqbal and Maznah Ismail

Effects of hydrolysis conditions on recovery of antioxidants from methanolic extracts of Nigella Sativa seeds


Ali Al Shawi, Josphert N. Kimatu, Muhammad Khan and Kawkab Ali Hussain

Enhancement of induced apoptosis in human melanoma A375 by a combination of natural compounds


Nian XIN, Wei LI, Yu-Juan LI, Xiao-Ke MA, Zhen-Ping FU and Yan LI

Study of antivirus, antibacteria and immune functions of Gaoreqing freeze-dried powder


Gui Zhi Fan, Xiao Dong Wang, Xiao Can Li, Jin Sheng Fan, Qiao Li Zhai and Ya Guang Zhan

Effect of fungal elicitor on carbon and nitrogen status and triterpenoid production in cell suspension cultures of Betula platyphylla Suk.


Xinhui Zhang, Xueyan Fu, Duoyong Lang, Caifang Zhang, Li Zhou and Yunsheng Zhao

Sophora alopecuroides L. response to salt stress at germination and seedling growth stages


Yinfen Su, Shengkun Li, Na Li, Liling Chen, Jiwen Zhang and Junru Wang

Seven alkaloids and their antibacterial activity from Hypecoum erectum L.


Abi-Ayad M., Abi-Ayad F. Z., Lazzouni H. A., Rebiahi S. A., Ziani_Cherif C. and Bessiere

Chemical composition and antifungal activity of Aleppo pine essential oil


Keyong Ho Lee, Kyung-Sook Whang and Ki - Hyeong Rhee

Effects of Lonicera japonica Thunb. on dextran sulfate sodium-induced experimental colitis in mice


Musa A. M., Aliyu A. B., Abdullahi M. I., Yaro A. H., Magaji M. G., Hassan H. S. and Iliya, I.

Bioactive chalcone from Indigofera pulchra


Christine Oryema, Remigius Bukenya Ziraba, Olwa Odyek, Nelson Omagor and Alfonse Opio

Phytochemical properties and toxicity to brine shrimp of medicinal plants in Erute county, Lira district, Uganda


Ayse Gul Ince, Fitnet Yildiz and Mehmet Karaca

The MAGi DNA extraction method for fresh tissues and dry seeds



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (23), 2011


Contents:

Review



Hamidreza Arab, Ahmad Maroofian, Shayan Golestani, Hooman shafaee, Keyvan Sohrabi and Ali Forouzanfar

Review of the therapeutic effects of Camellia sinensis (green tea) on oral and periodontal health



Research Articles



Shuxian Cai, Jianan Huang, Li-li Wang, Xin-rong Dong, Yu-shun Gong, Juan Li, Qing Li, Zhong-hua Liu and Guo-an Luo

Inhibiting effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on the formation of age pigment in vitro and in vivo


Naif Obaid Al-Harbi

Effect of marjoram extract treatment on the cytological and biochemical changes induced by cyclophosphamide in mice


Aleksandra Đorđević, Bojan Zlatković, Jelena Lazarević and Radosav Palić

A detailed chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Hypericum richeri Vill. subsp. grisebachii (Boiss.) Nyman essential oil from Serbia


Erhua Rong, Zhiguo Zhao, Zhihong Zhao, Jinhu Ma, Weidong Zang, Lishan Wang, Dongli Xie and Wude Yang

Wheat cold and light stress analysis based on the Arabidopsis homology protein-protein interaction (PPI) network


Doaa Ezz-Din, Mohamed S. Gabry, Abdel Razik H. Farrag and Ahmed E. Abdel Moneim

Physiological and histological impact of Azadirachta indica (neem) leaves extract in a rat model of cisplatin-induced hepato and nephrotoxicity


Hai-jin Shen, Qiao-sheng Guo and Hai-ling Fang

Toxicological evaluation of carotenoid-type extracts from Flos Chrysanthemi Indici


Zang Pu, Pengju Zhang, Gao Yugang, Hao Jianxun, Wang Yaxing, Li Ran, Yang He, Li Xue, Li Ping, Daowei Zhou and Lianxue Zhang

The evaluation of contents of nine ginsenoside monomers in ginseng hairy roots by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)


Adeel Mahmood, Aqeel Mahmood, Ishrat Naveed, Mazhar Mustafa Memon, Hadi Bux, M. Younas Majeed, Ghulam Mujtaba and M. Saqlain Mumtaz

Indigenous medicinal knowledge of common plants used by local people of Hattian Bala District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan


Vali Rabiei, Elham Shirzadeh, Hosaine RabbiAngourani and Yavar Sharafi

Effect of thyme and lavender essential oils on the qualitative and quantitative traits and storage life of apple ‘Jonagold’ cultivar


I. Rajpar, Y. M. Khanif, Zia-ul-hassan, A. N. Shah, M. Arshad and S. Galani

Growth, herb yield and phytochemical contents in a medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata under saline irrigation


Keivan Zandi, Boon-Teong Teoh, Sing-Sin Sam, Pooi-Fong Wong, Mohd Rais Mustafa and Sazaly AbuBakar

In vitro antiviral activity of Fisetin, Rutin and Naringenin against Dengue virus type-2


Zaman Sher, Mohammad Ibrar and Ishfaq Hameed

Setting pharmacognostic standards for Convolvulus arvensis Linn.


Muhammad Altaf Hussain, Muhammad Qayyum Khan, Nazar Hussain and Tariq Habib

Antibacterial and antifungal potential of leaves and twigs of Viscum album L.


K. Diba, M. Gerami Shoar, M. Shabatkhori and Z. Khorshivand

Anti fungal activity of alcoholic extract of Peganum harmala seeds


K. H. Lee, A. M. Padzil, A. Syahida, N. Abdullah, S. W. Zuhainis, M. Maziah, M. R. Sulaiman, D. A. Israf, K. Shaari and N. H. Lajis

Evaluation of anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-nociceptive activities of six Malaysian medicinal plants


Chunyan Qian

Effects of electroacupuncture at Quchi point on vascular smooth muscle cells apoptosis of two kidney one clip hypertensive rates (2K1C-RHR) in carotid artery


Jitendra Kumar, Gyan P. Mishra, Harvinder Singh, Ravi B. Srivastava and Pradeep K. Naik

Congruence of inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) and random amplification of polymorphic deoxyribonucleic acid (RAPD) markers in genetic characterization of Artemisia annua in the trans-Himalayan region


Mahmood, A. A., Fouad AL-Bayaty, Noor, S. M., Wasman S. Q. and Saba F. Hussain

Anti-ulcerogenic effects of Nagilla sativa in ethanol-induced gastric injuries in rats


Zengjun Guo, Ying Xu, Ling Han, Xiaoqian Bo, Chen Huang and Lei Ni

Antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of the acetone extracts of root of Euphorbia hylonoma and its ellagic acid derivatives


Azam Habibi, Gholamreza Heidari, Yosuf Sohrabi, Hedieh Badakhshan and Khosro Mohammadi

Influence of bio, organic and chemical fertilizers on medicinal pumpkin traits


Carmo F. S., Diniz C. L., Pereira M. O., Santos-Filho S. D. and Bernardo-Filho, M.

Characterization of physicochemical parameters and the effect on the labeling of blood constituents with technetium-99m of a Solanum melongena commercial extract


Li Dahui, Wang Zaigui and Zhang Yunhua

Antifungal activity of extracts by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction from roots of Echinacea angustifolia and analysis of their constituents using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)


Mohammad Reza Haj Seyed Hadi, Mohammad Taghi Darz, Zohreh Ghandehari and Gholamhossein Riazi

Effects of vermicompost and amino acids on the flower yield and essential oil production from Matricaria chamomile L.


Lee Ke Yao, Sarah Liana Abdul Razak, Nazhirah Ismail, Ng Chun Fai, Mohd. Hafis Asyraf Muhamad Asgar, Nursyahirah Mohd Sharif, Goon Jo Aan and Zakiah Jubri

Malaysian gelam honey reduces oxidative damage and modulates antioxidant enzyme activities in young and middle aged rats


Mohammad Narimani-Rad, Ali Nobakht, Habib Aghdam Shahryar, Jafar Kamani and Alireza Lotfi

Influence of dietary supplemented medicinal plants mixture (Ziziphora, Oregano and Peppermint) on performance and carcass characterization of broiler chickens


Yong-chun Jin, Hua-liang Liu and Ke Yuan

Simultaneous determination of seven effective constituents in the leaves of bamboo by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC)


Harleen Kaur Nadha, Rahul Kumar, Ram Kumar Sharma, Manju Anand and Anil Sood

Evaluation of clonal fidelity of in vitro raised plants of Guadua angustifolia Kunth using DNA-based markers


Azizuddin and Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary

Antibacterial, phytotoxic, insecticidal and cytotoxic potential of Vitex agnus-castus


Hooshang Vahedi, Maliha Nasrabadi, Jalil Lari and Majid Halimi

Volatile constituents and antimicrobial activities of Pterocephalus canus



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (24), 2011


Contents:



Review



Sajid Khan, Abdul Hannan, Khan Usmanghani, Shahab Uddin, Halima Nazar, E. Mohiuddin and M. Akram

Sinusitis review


M. Akram, Shahab-uddin, Afzal Ahmed, Khan Usmanghani, Abdul Hannan, E. Mohiuddin, M. Asif and S. M. Ali Shah

Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (Medicinal uses)


S. M. Ali Shah, Naveed Akhtar, M. Akram, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Khalil Ahmed and H. M. Asif

Pharmacological activity of Althaea officinalis L.


Hongbo Guo, Zongsuo Liang and Yuejin Zhang

On-farm conservation of genetic diversity for endangered medicinal plants


Ya-wen Zeng, Juan Du, Xiao-ying Pu, Shu-ming Yang, Tao Yang and Ping Jia

Strategies of functional food for hypertension prevention in China



Research Articles



Zhu-Jun Wang, Qiang Zhang and Xin-Huai Zhao

Induced-differentiation of two flavones and two flavonols on a human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell line (KYSE-510)


H. M. Abd El-Samad, M. A. K. Shaddad and N. Barakat

Improvement of plants salt tolerance by exogenous application of amino acids


Sae-Rom Lee, Hye-Hyun Shin, Ji-Hyun Jeong, Keum Taek Hwang and Tae-Young Kim

Effect of ethanol concentrations and extraction time on acanthoside-D and total polyphenol contents and antioxidant activities in ethanol extracts of eleuthero


Sultan Ayaz, Abdul Hannan, Khan Usmanghani, Halima Nazar, E. Mohiuddin, M. Akram and M. Ibrahim Khan

ScaNeem: Herbo-mineral therapy for scabies


Abdolhossein Rustaiyan, Katayoun Javidnia, Mohammad Hossein Farjam, Mohammad Kazem Mohammadi and Nima Mohammadi

Total phenols, antioxidant potential and antimicrobial activity of the methanolic extracts of Ephedra laristanica


Govindappa M, Naga Sravya S, Poojashri M. N., Sadananda T. S., Chandrappa C. P., Gustavo Santoyo, Sharanappa P and Anil Kumar N. V.

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and in vitro anti-inflammatory activity and phytochemical screening of water extract of Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc.


Hyun Kim and Mi-Jang Song

Oral traditional knowledge for the treatment of digestive system diseases investigated in North Jeolla Province, Korea


Wan Yong Ho, Swee Keong Yeap, Chai Ling Ho, Abdul Rahim Raha, Abdul Aziz Suraini and Noorjahan Banu Alitheen

Elephantopus scaber induces cytotoxicity in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells via p53-induced apoptosis


Ghiasuddin, Taj Ur Rehman Mohammad Arfan, Wajiha Liaqat waliullah, Abdur rauf, Inamullah Khan Ghulam Mohammad and Mohammad Iqbal Choudhary

In-vitro pharmacological investigations of aerial parts of indigofera heterantha


Megdiche Ksouri Wided, Chaouachi Feten, M’Rabet Rawya, Medini Feten, Zaouali Yosr, Trabelsi Nejla, Ksouri Riadh, Noumi Emira and Abdelly Chedly

Antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of Frankenia thymifolia Desf. fractions and their related biomolecules identification by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)


Chrystian Araújo Pereira, Luciana Lopes Silva Pereira and Angelita Duarte Correa

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of Hoodia gordonii commercial powder


El Mokhtar El Ouariachi, Julien Paolini, Abdelhamid Bouyanzer, Pierre Tomi, Belkheir Hammouti, Rachid Salghi, Lhou Majidi and Jean Costa

Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of essential oils and solvent extracts of Thymus capitatus (L.) Hoffmanns and link from Morocco


A. A. Albajali, A. H. Nagi, M. Shahzad, M. Ikram Ullah and S. Hussain

Effect of Allium sativa L. on pancreatic ß. cells in comparison to Nigella sativa L. in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats


Kumara Swamy M., Neeraj Pokharen, Santosh Dahal and Anuradha M.

Phytochemical and antimicrobial studies of leaf extract of Euphorbia neriifolia


YAN Shu-xun, Wang Ying, Zhang bin, Feng Zhi-hai, Lv Jiu-sheng, Sun Ya-ru and Lin Yan-jie

Triptolide inhibits cytokine-induced activation of retro-ocular fibroblasts from patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy


Mohammad Reza Safari Motlagh and Armin Javadzadeh

Study of the reaction of major weeds and some rice cultivars to Fusarium equiseti


Shabnum Shaheen, Mushtaq Ahmad, Farah Kkan, Muhammad Zafar, Mir Ajab Khan, Shazia Sultana, Shahid Abbas, Muhammad Jamil and Sartaj Khan

Systematic application of palyno-anatomical characterization of Setaria species based in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscope (LM) analysis


Ammar Imad Hazim, Muzaimi Mustapha and Sharif Mahsufi Mansor

The effects on motor behaviour and short-term memory tasks in mice following an acute administration of Mitragyna speciosa alkaloid extract and mitragynine


Gagoonani Shahnaz, Enteshari Shekoofeh, Delavar Kourosh and Behyar Moohamadbagher

Interactive effects of Silicon and Aluminum on the malondialdehyde (MDA), proline, protein and phenolic compounds in Borago officinalis L.


Esmail Nabizadeh, Elnaz Taherifard and Farzad Gerami

Effect of pruning lateral branches on four varieties of medicinal castor bean plant (Ricinuscommunis L.) yield, growth and development


Ghiasuddin, Taj Ur Rehman, Mohammad Arfan, Wajiha Liaqatwaliullah, Abdur rauf, Inamullah Khan, Ghulam Mohammad and Mohammad Iqbal Choudhary

Antimicrobial, insecticidal and phytotoxic activities of Indigofera heterantha roots


Zizhen Liu, Xiaohong Wang, Qiang Zhang, Meng Shen and Gaimei She

Quantitative determination of total aconitines in commercial Aconitum L. Chinese medicine


Y. Wen Xu, Lei Liu, Dan Zhao, Yu Ting Zou, Jian Wei Zeng and Wei Wu

Aliphatic aldehyde rich volatile constituents of Houttuyania cordata from southwest China


Meili Gao, Yongfei Li and Jianxiong Yang

Protective effect of Pedicularis decora Franch root extracts on oxidative stress and hepatic injury in alloxan-induced diabetic mice


Saleh Al-Quran

Conservation of medicinal plants in Ajlun woodland / Jordan


S. A. M. Ali, S. M. A. ElBadwi, T. M. Idris and K. M. Osman

Hepatoprotective activity of aqueous extract of Khaya senegalensis bark in rats


K. N. Ting, M. Othman, G. Telford, G. Clarke, T. D. Bradshaw, T. J. Khoo, H. S. Loh, C. Wiart, D. Pritchard and J. R. Fry

Antioxidant, cytoprotective, growth inhibitory and immunomodulatory activities of extracts of Dysoxylum cauliflorum Hiern., a Malaysian Meliaceae


Mamoona Munir, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Abida Bano, Sidra Nisar Ahmed, Kanwal Tariq, Saira Tabassum, Tehmeena Mukhtar, Madhia Ambreen and Shazia Bashir

Foliar epidermal anatomy of some ethnobotanically important species of wild edible fruits of northern Pakistan


Yu Sheng, Yang Liu, Xiaodong Huang, Guangxin Yuan and Ming Guan

Purification, chemical characterization and in vitro antioxidant activities of alkali-extracted polysaccharide fractions isolated from the fruits of Schisandra chinensis


Guowu Yu, Weidong Zang, Xianquan Yang, Lishan Wang, Zongxiang Tang and Peigao Luo

Meta-analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana under abscisic acid and salt stress


Limin Li, Benguo Liu and Xueling Zheng

Bioactive ingredients in adzuki bean sprouts


Wei Liu, Yuchi He, Jun Xiang, Chunhua Fu, Longjiang Yu, Jinming Zhang and Maoteng Li

The physiological response of suspension cell of Capparis spinosa L. to drought stress


Yanping Hu, Li Wang and Yi Li

Inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) primer screening and preliminary evaluation of genetic diversity in Rheum tanguticum


B. Sadeghi-Nejad, J. Saki, S. Khademvatan and S. Nanaei

In vitro antileishmanial activity of the medicinal plant - Satureja khuzestanica Jamzad

Hassan Javed Chaudhary, Asma Zeb, Asghari Bano, Fahd Rasul, M. Farooq Hussain Munis, Shah Fahad and Wajid Naseem

Antimicrobial activities of Sapium sebiferum L. belonging to family Euphorbiaceae


Muhammad Riaz, Mansoor Ahmad and Najmur Rahman

Antimicrobial screening of fruit, leaves, root and stem of Rubus fruticosus


Zhi-liang Huang, Jie Jin, Xiang-min Tong, Qun-zheng Yang, Bao-luo Gu, Jian-chao Wang, Yuedi-shen and Jun-jun Xie

The immunomodulatory effects of Cordyceps sinensis on dendritic cells derived from chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)


Hyoungmin Suh, Se Myung Seo, Dong-Sup Lee and Su Young Woo

Net photosynthesis of Panax ginseng on the different age in mountain area, Korea


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (25), 2011


Contents:

Review



Faisal Zakai, Shahab Uddin, M. Akram, E. Mohiuddin, Abdul Hannan and Khan Usmanghani

Introduction to male infertility


Sun Yan-Lin, Liu Lin-De and Hong Soon-Kwan

Eleutherococcus senticosus as a crude medicine: Review of biological and pharmacological effects


Baratali Siahsar, Abdol Shakoor Raissi, Abolfazl Tavassoli and Mohammad Rahimi

Pattern of gene and enzyme in secondary pathways of medicinal plants



Research Articles



Paul V. Tan, Christophe Mezui and Maurice Boda

Anti-Helicobacter and gastroduodenal cytoprotective actions of the leaf aqueous extract of Ocimum suave (Lamiaceae)


M. Otroshy and K. Moradi

Micropropagation of medicinal plant Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. via nodal cutting technique


Ill-Min Chung, Praveen Nagella, Young-Sup Ahn Seok-Ju Kim and Ateeque Ahmad

Composition of the essential oil and petroleum ether extract of Lycium chinense Miller fruits and antioxidant activity of its several extracts


Mhemmed Gandour, Wael Tamaalli, Najla Trabelsi, Kamel Hessini, Khaled Sebei, Ahmed Debez and Chedly Abdelly

How to optimize the seed and seed-oil production in the cash crop halophyte Cakile maritima?



Jintakorn Kuvatanasuchati, Surat Laphookhieo and Pirasut Rodanant

Antimicrobial activity against periodontopathic bacteria and cytotoxic study of Cratoxylum formosum and Clausena lansium


Tao He, Haitao Wang, Lina Yang and Zhigang Zhao

Micropropagation of Anisodus tanguticus and assessment of genetic stability of regenerated plants using inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) marker


Adel Kadri, Zied Zarai, Ines Ben Chobba, Ahmed Békir, Néji Gharsallah, Mohamed Damak and Radhouane Gdoura

Chemical constituents and antioxidant properties of Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil cultivated from South-Western Tunisia


Zhe-xiong Jin and Bao-Qing Wang

In vitro antioxidant activity of acetone extracts from Chinese herb agrimony leaves


Hakimeh Oloumi and Neda Hassibi

Study the correlation between some climate parameters and the content of phenolic compounds in roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra


Amir Muhammad Khan, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Faizan Ullah, Syed Aneel Gilani, Asia Nosheen, Sumaira Sahreen, Muhammad Khan Laghari, Muhammad Yousif Laghari, Shafiq-Ur-Rehman, Ishtiaq Hussain and Waheed Murad

Phytochemical analysis of selected medicinal plants of Margalla Hills and surroundings


Xinyan Wang, Jinxiu Xu, Mu Yang and Hong Zhou

Chloroform extract of Tibetan herbal medicine Dracocephalum tanguticum Maxim. inhibits proliferation of T98G glioblastomas cells by modulating Caspase-3 cleavage and expression of Bax and p21


Zhiwei Cui, Lixue Chen, Gui Bei, Lianlian Chen, Tan Ge, Guangcheng Qin and Jiying Zhou

Tetrandrine attenuates NF-?B activation in trigeminal ganglia by blocking calcium channel in a rat model of migraine


Asad Zia, Bin Guo, Ikram Ullah, Riaz Ahmad, Mubarak Ali Khan, Bilal Haider Abbasi and Ya-hui Wei

Salinity tolerance and site of K+ accumulation in four maize varieties grown in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan


Ravi Kumar, Nandini Sharma, Sonia Malik, Shashi Bhushan, Upendra Kumar Sharma, Devla Kumari, Arun Kumar Sinha, Madhu Sharma and Paramvir Singh Ahuja

Cell suspension culture of Arnebia euchroma (Royle) Johnston – A potential source of naphthoquinone pigments


Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Nasir Ali Shah, Jasia Bokhari, Maria Shabbir, Umbreen Rashid and Shumila Jan

Potassium bromate (KBrO3) induced nephrotoxicity: Protective effects of n-hexane extract of Sonchus asper


Hong-Keun Oh, Soo Jeong Park, Hae Dalma Moon, Seung Hwan Jun, Na-Young Choi and Yong-Ouk You

Tribulus terrestris inhibits caries-inducing properties of Streptococcus mutans


Kim Wei Chan, Shahid Iqbal, Nicholas M. H. Khong and Abdul Salam Babji

Preparation of deodorized antioxidant rich extracts from 15 selected spices through optimized aqueous extraction


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

Grape seed extract mitigates garlic-induced oxidative stress in rat spleen and plasma


Ahmad Reza Golparvar and Babak Bahari

Effects of phenological stages on herbage yield and quality/quantity of oil in garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)


Rasa Kaledaite, Jurga Bernatoniene, Daiva Majiene, Katerina Dvorackova, Ruta Masteikova, Jan Muselik, Zenona Kalveniene, Julius Liobikas and Arunas Savickas

Investigation of antiradical activity of Salvia officinalis L., Urtica dioica L., and Thymus vulgaris L. extracts as potential candidates for a complex therapeutic preparation


RenJie Liang

Effect of exercise and Lycium barbarum extract on serum Fe level and liver antioxidant enzyme activities rats fed with Fe-rich diet


Asif Iqbal, M. Akram, Hasan Ali, Naveed Akhtar, Saeed Ur Rashid Nazir, Irshad Ahmad, Asim Awan and H. M. Asif

Prevalence of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Gadap Town Karachi, Pakistan


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (16-20), 2011

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (16), 2011


Contents:

Review



Abdallah Atia, Zouhaier Barhoumi, Rabhi Mokded, Chedly Abdelly and Abderrazak Smaoui

Environmental eco-physiology and economical potential of the halophyte Crithmum maritimum L. (Apiaceae)


S. Ghuman and R. M. Coopoosamy

Crude sample preparation, extraction and in vitro screening for antimicrobial activity of selected wound healing medicinal plants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A review


Maryam Khoubnasabjafari and Abolghasem Jouyban

A review of phytochemistry and bioactivity of quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.)


Weiping He and Baokang Huang

A review of chemistry and bioactivities of a medicinal spice: Foeniculum vulgare


M. Akram, H. M. Asif, Naveed Akhtar, Pervaiz A. Shah, M. Uzair, Ghazala Shaheen, Tahira Shamim, S. M. Ali Shah and Khalil Ahmad

Tribulus terrestris Linn.: A review article


Research Articles



Rand Riadh Hafidh, Abdulamir A. S., Law Se Vern, Fatimah Abu Bakar, Faridah Abas, Fatemeh Jahanshiri and Zamberi Sekawi

Novel in-vitro antimicrobial activity of Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek against highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens


Dibyendu Talukdar

Isolation and characterization of NaCl-tolerant mutations in two important legumes, Clitoria ternatea L. and Lathyrus sativus L.: Induced mutagenesis and selection by salt stress


Yan LI, Hao-bin HU, Xu-dong ZHENG, Ji-hua ZHU and Li-ping LIU

Composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oil from the aerial part of Artemisia annua


Ali Mohammadzadeh K. H., Yarahmadi S. H., Tabibi S. J. and Ebrazeh A.

Statistical evaluation and comparison of operational indices and analyzing cost-benefit of different regions of Iranian program of screening for congenital hypothyroidism


Sadananda T. S., Nirupama R., Chaithra K., Govindappa M., Chandrappa C. P. and Vinay Raghavendra B.

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of endophytes from Tabebuia argentea and identification of anticancer agent (lapachol)


Yang He, Pei Hou, Gang Fan, Zhen Song, Huai Liu, Yufeng Li and Yi Zhang

Internal transcribed spacers (ITS) identification of Angelica anomala Lallem Chuanbaizhi (in Chinese) cultivars collected in Sichuan and their molecular phylogenetic analysis with other Angelica L. species


N. Al-Henhena, A. A. Mahmood, A. Al-magrami, A. B. Nor Syuhada, A. A. Zahra, M. D. Summaya, M. S. Suzi and I. Salmah

Histological study of wound healing potential by ethanol leaf extract of Strobilanthes crispus in rats


Dehpour A. A., Babakhani B., Khazaei S. and Asadi M.

Chemical composition of essential oil and antibacterial activity of extracts from flower of Allium atroviolaceum


Shan Gong, Qian Liang, Chiyi Kwok, Zhenlun Gu, Jin Tao and Xinghong Jiang

‘Naobitong’ reduces hyperalgesia, decreases interleukin-6 level and ameliorates inflamed joint in arthritic rats


Sarfaraz Khan Marwat, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Khalid Usman, Abdul Aziz Khakwani, Said Ghulam, Naveed Anwar, Muhammad Sadiq and Shah Jehan Khan

Medico-ethnobotanical studies of edible wild fruit plants species from the flora of north western Pakistan (D. I. Khan district)


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

Purified alkaloid extract of Scutellaria barbata inhibits proliferation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma CNE-1 cells by inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest at S phase


Shabnam Javed, Amna Javaid, Zaid Mahmood, Arshad Javaid and Fouzia Nasim

Biocidal activity of citrus peel essential oils against some food spoilage bacteria


Aoxue Luo and Yijun Fan

Antioxidant activities of berberine hydrochloride


Samiullah, Asghari Bano, Rabia Naz and Humaira Yasmin

In vitro inhibition potential of Lespedeza bicolor Turcz against selected bacterial and fungal strains


Susi Endrini

Antioxidant activity and anticarcinogenic properties of “rumput mutiara” {Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam.} and “pohpohan” {Pilea trinervia (Roxb.) Wight}


Elham Rastegari, Zalinah Ahmad, David F. Spencer and Maznah Ismai

Two-dimensional profiling of proteins from Curculigo latifolia fruit by three different extraction protocols


Shahram Khademvatan, Jasem Saki, Mohammad Javad Gharavi and Fakher Rahim

Allium sativum extract induces apoptosis in Leishmania major (MRHO/IR/75/ER) promastigotes


Liang Zhen Hong

Radix linderae essential oil improving the immunity activities and preventing the occurrence of decubitus in aged people


Fan Siew Loh, Rita Muhamad Awang, Dzolkhifli Omar and Mawardi Rahmani

Insecticidal properties of Citrus hystrix DC leaves essential oil against Spodoptera litura fabricius


M. Saiful Islam, Sekendar Ali, Masudur Rahman, Rabiul Islam, Ashraf Ali, A. K. Azad and Md. Rafikul Islam

Antidiabetic, cytotoxic activities and phytochemical screening of Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) K. Heyne root


Seint San Aye and Masaru Matsumoto

Effect of some plant extracts on Rhizoctonia spp. and Sclerotium hydrophilum


Ali Shafaghat

Antioxidant, antimicrobial activities and fatty acid components of leaf and seed of Bupleurum lancifolium Hornem.


Nobakht A., Norani J. and Safamehr A.

The effects of different amounts of Mentha pulegium L. (pennyroyal) on performance, carcass traits, hematological and blood biochemical parameters of broilers


Peng Ai-mei, Cao Jia and Cui Shi-tao

Revealing candidate genes of lung adenocarcinoma by bioinformatics analysis


Tan Eng Chong, Foo Gen Teck, Wong Sher Ming, Noorsaadah Abd Rahman, Norzulaani Khalid, Saiful Anuar Karsani, Shatrah Othman and Rohana Yusof

Optimization of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis protocols for Boesenbergia rotunda in vitro suspension culture


Igor A. Rodrigues, Daniela S Alviano, Marta T. Gomes, Davi O. Silva, Rosemar Antoniassi, Antonio Jorge R. Silva, Humberto R. Bizzo, Celuta S. Alviano, Alane B. Vermelho and Maria do Socorro S. Rosa

In vitro anti-Leishmania amazonensis activity of the polymeric procyanidin-rich aqueous extract from Syagrus coronata


O. O. Olajuyigbe and A. J. Afolayan

In vitro antibacterial activities of the methanol extract of Ziziphus mucronata Willd. subsp. mucronata Willd.


Shabnum Shaheen, Mushtaq Ahmad, Farah Khan, Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana, Mir Ajab Khan, Muhammad Khan Leghari, Muhammad Jamil and Hina Fatima

Morpho-playnological and foliar epidermal anatomy of genus Cenchrus L.


Reza Ebrahimi Hariry

Anticonvulsant effects of hydroalcoholic extract of Melissa officinalis on pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) model of convulsion in mice


Shiguang Sun, Xiaodi Sun, Qinggui Zhou, Hui Yan, Xiumin Li, Jie Cui, Jianfang Liu, Shujie Wang, Lihua Li and Shoucheng Liu

Establishment and standards for “high risk medicines” management system


Dongjie Shang, Lili Zhang, Shuying Han and Guiyun Wang

Adjuvant effect of a novel water-soluble polysaccharide isolated from the stem of Physalis alkekengi L. var. francheti (Mast.) Makino


Song Yi Koo, Kwang Hyun Cha, Dae-Geun Song, Donghwa Chung, Dong-Un Lee and Cheol-Ho Pan

Amplification of allyl isothiocyanate in red cabbage using high hydrostatic pressure treatment


H. M. Asif, Khan Usmanghani, Naveed Akhtar, M. Uzair, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, M. Akram and Zahoor-ul-Hasan

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in gastroenterological disorders in Shifa Ul Mulk Memorial Hospital Karachi, Pakistan


Sirvan Atashak, Maghsoud Peeri, Afshar Jafari and Mohammad Ali Azarbayjani

Effects of ginger supplementation and resistance training on lipid profiles and body composition in obese men


O. A. Sodipo, F. I. Abdulrahman, U. K. Sandabe and J. A. Akinniyi

Total lipid profile and faecal cholesterol with aqueous fruit extract of Solanum macrocarpum in triton-induced hyperlipidaemic albino rats


S. M. Jodi, T. Adamu, U. Abubakar, M. G. Abubakar, U. M. Chafe, V. E. Ukatu, D. M. Sani and S. Adamu

Effects of treatment with ethanol extract of Gardenia sokotensis on haematological and biochemical changes in Trypanosoma brucei brucei infected rabbits


A. Shojaii, A. Goushegir, F.Hashem Dabaghian, M. Abdollahi Fard, H. Fallah Huseini

Herbs and herbal preparations for glycemic control in diabetes mellitus (a systematic review)


Maher Obeidat

Antimicrobial activity of some medicinal plants against multidrug resistant skin pathogens


Sudawadee Yotarlai, Vipavadee Chaisuksunt, Kanokporn Saenphet and Paiwan Sudwan

Effects of Boesenbergia rotunda juice on sperm qualities in male rats


Xiao-Ying Cao, Chang-Gen Li, Qian Miao, Zhu-Jun Zheng and Ji-Hong Jiang

Molecular cloning and expression analysis of a leaf-specific expressing 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase gene from Michelia chapensis Dandy


Ala Issa, Mohammad Mohammad, Mohammad Hudaib, Khalid Tawah, Talal Abu Rjai, Sawsan Oran and Yasser Bustanji

A potential role of Lavandula angustifolia in the management of diabetic dyslipidemia


Y. Wen Xu, Qian Rong Cai, Dan Zhao and Wei Wu

Monoterpene composition of flower and bract from Houttuynia cordata


Sobia Chohan, Rashida Atiq, Mirza Abid Mehmood, Safina Naz and Saleem Haider

Efficacy of few plant extracts against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. gladioli, the cause of corm rot of gladiolus


Muhammad Ismail, Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Naveed Muhammad, Nadeem Mohani, Muhammad Asif Khan2, Barkatullah and Javid Hussain

Pharmacognostic and phytochemical investigation of the stem bark of Pistacia integerrima Stew ex Brandis


Xihai Li, Jun Peng, Yanfang Xu, Mingxia Wu, Hongzhi Ye, Chunsong Zheng, Guangwen Wu, Huifeng Xu, Xuzheng Chen and Xianxiang Liu

Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) promotes chondrocyte proliferation via pushing the progression of cell cycle


Annabelle A. Herrera, Rich Ericson C. King and Lerrie Ann D. G. Ipulan

Effects of oral administration of crude leaf extracts of Aglaia loheri Blanco and Ardisia pyramidalis (Cav.) Pers on mouse embryo morphology and maternal reproductive performance


C. M. Ashraf, Shahid Iqbal and Dildar Ahmed

Nutritional and physicochemical studies on fruit pulp, seed and shell of indigenous Prunus persica


Hongbo Zhao, Huiqin Zheng, Xianglong Li, Rongyan Zhou and Lanhui Li

Characterization, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) identification and variation of goat c-Kit gene in different populations


N. D. Kannan and G. Kulandaivelu

Drought induced changes in physiological, biochemical and phytochemical properties of Withania somnifera Dun.


Jyoti Ashok Chavan, Santosh Jalindar Patil and Ganesh Parashram Bhawane

Screening of aqueous plant extracts against Beauveria Bassiana infection to 5th instar larvae of Bombyx mori L.


Madeeha Malik, Shahzad Hussain, Farnaz Malik, Tipu Sultan, Hussain Ali, Abdul Hameed, Naila Abbasi and Khan Usmanghani

The effect of supplemental dietary chromium on blood glucose, body weight and liver enzymes of rabbits


Shaker A. Seddiek, Mohamed M. Ali, Hanem F. Khater and Mohamed M. El-Shorbagy

Anthelmintic activity of the white wormwood, Artemisia herba-alba against Heterakis gallinarum infecting turkey poults


Muhammad Rashid Awan, Zafar Iqbal, Syed Muqarab Shah, Zafar Jamal, Gul Jan, Muhammad Afzal, Abdul Majid and Alia Gul

Studies on traditional knowledge of economically important plants of Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Pakistan


Ying Zhang, Qing Li, Wen-tao Liu, Xiao-hui Chen, Ying Zhang, Xian-min You, Gui-xin Zou, Ting-guo Kang and Kai-shun Bi

Simultaneous quantification of schisandrin and gomisin A in rat plasma by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS): Application to a pharmacokinetic study


Gerard L. Penecilla and Celia P. Magno

Antibacterial activity of extracts of twelve common medicinal Plants from the Philippines


A. Namuli , N. Abdullah, C. C. Sieo, S. W. Zuhainis and E. Oskoueian

Phytochemical compounds and antibacterial activity of Jatropha curcas Linn. extracts


Hossein Afshari, Mostafa Eftekhari, Miad Faraji, Abdol Ghaffar Ebadi and Abbas Ghanbarimalidareh

Studying the effect of 1000 grain weight on the sprouting of different species of Salvia L. grown in Iran




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (17), 2011


Contents:

Mini Review


M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, H. M. Asif, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Arshad Mahmood and Nadia Shamshad Malik

Butea monosperma Lam.: A review


Review


M. Akram, H. M. Asif, M. Uzair, Naveed Akhtar, Asadullah Madni, S. M. Ali Shah, Zahoorul Hasan and Asmat Ullah

Amino acids: A review article


Du Jing, Wan Deguang, Huang Linfang, Chen Shilin and Qin Minjian

Application of chemometrics in quality evaluation of medicinal plants


Olawole O. Obembe, Tanveer Khan and Jacob O. Popoola

Use of somatic embryogenesis as a vehicle for cotton transformation


Research Articles


Momoh, M. A. and Muhammed, U.

Toxicological and hypoglycemic studies on the oil extracted from seeds of Khaya senegalensisis on blood glucose levels of alloxan-induced diabetic albino rats


S. Haripriya and Usha Chandrasekhar

Immunocompetence potential of Tinospora cordifolia on selected postmenopausal women


Gao Chen, Biao Liu, Miao Jiang, Yong Tan and Ai-ping Lu

Functional networks for Salvia miltiorrhiza and Panax notoginseng in combination explored with text mining and bioinformatical approach


Sun Cunhua, SHI Jian-jie, WANG Dan, LI Bai-wei and SUN Dong

Effects on physiological and biochemical characteristics of medicinal plant pigweed by drought stresses


Eman M. El-Sayed, Amal, S. Abd El-azeem Abeer, A. Afify, Manal H. Shabana and Hanaa H. Ahmed

Cardioprotective effects of Curcuma longa L. extracts against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats


Ling-Yun Cai, Feng-Xiang Shi and Xia Gao

Preliminary phytochemical analysis of canthopanan trifoliatus (L.) Merr


Aglaia Liopa-Tsakalidi, Georgios Zakynthinos, Theodoros Varzakas and Ioannis Nickolaos Xynias

Effect of NaCl and GA3 on seed germination and seedling growth of eleven medicinal and aromatic crops


Olgica Stefanovic, Milan S. Stankovic and Ljiljana Comic

In vitro antibacterial efficacy of Clinopodium vulgare L. extracts and their synergistic interaction with antibiotics


Sabahat Zahra Siddiqui, Muhammad Athar Abbasi, Aziz-ur-Rehman, Tauheeda Riaz, Tayyaba Shahzadi, Muhammad Ajaib and Khalid Mohammed Khan

Olea ferrugenia: A potential natural source of protection from oxidative stress


Dyamavvanahalli Lakshmanachar Shrisha, Koteshwara Anandrao Raveesha and Nagabhushan

Bioprospecting of selected medicinal plants for antibacterial activity against some pathogenic bacteria


Riaz Ur Rehman, Khan Usmanghani, Halima Nazar, Shahab uddin, M. Akram, H. M. Asif, Zahoor U. l. Hasan

Clinical study on the management of obesity with certain natural medicine


Dawood Khan, Khan Usmanghani, Shahab Uddin, E. Mohiuddin, Halima Nazar, M.Akram, H.M. Asif, Sultan Ayaz, Ibrahim Khan

Clinical evaluation of herbal medicine for treatment of bacillary dysentery


Chandan Kumar Pati and Aloke Bhattacharjee

Alleviation of seed deterioration and enhancement of plant potential of a pea species using selected medicinal plant extracts


MIdadul Haq, Wirakarnain Sani, A. B. M. S. Hossain, Rosna Mat Taha and K. M. Monneruzzaman

Total phenolic contents, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza


A. Ghasemi Pirbalouti, G. H. Rahnama, F. Malekpoor and H. Roohi Broujeni

Variation in antibacterial activity and phenolic content of Hypericum scabrum L. populations


Quanjun Yang, Mingsong Fan, Bin Wu, Zhaolin Sun, Xiaolan Cui, Xiaowei Du and Chenggang Huang

Quality assessment for fructus Gardeniae by multi-component quantification, chromatographic fingerprint and related chemometric analysis


Emira Noumi, Mejdi Snoussi, Najla Trabelsi, Hafedh Hajlaoui, Riadh Ksouri, Eulogio Valentin and Amina Bakhrouf

Antibacterial, anticandidal and antioxidant activities of Salvadora persica and Juglans regia L. extracts


Emira Noumi, Mejdi Snoussi, Hafedh Hajlaoui, Najla Trabelsi, Riadh Ksouri, Eulogio Valentin and Amina Bakhrouf

Chemical composition, antioxidant and antifungal potential of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) and Eucalyptus globulus essential oils against oral Candida species


Keivan Saeb, Ali Askar Kiaee, Mahmoud Asadi, PourShamsian Khalil, Jafari Hajati Razieh and Eslami Alireza

Investigation of the effect of light intensity on five essential oils of Hypericum perforatum L: A case study of Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran


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

Antioxidant properties of cashew leaves' extracts before and after treatment with activated carbon used in cosmetics


Ali Ghasemzadeh and Neda Ghasemzadeh

Optimization of flavonoids extraction process from mulberry (Morus alba L.) leaves


Tauheeda Riaz, Muhammad Athar Abbasi, Tayyaba Shahzadi, Aziz-ur-Rehman, Sabahat Zahra Siddiqui and Muhammad Ajaib

Colebrookia oppositifolia: A valuable source for natural antioxidants


Shyam Kumar R., Naif Abdullah Al-Harbi and Thajuddin N.

Macromolecular and fatty acid profile studies on symbiotic cyanobacterial isolates of cyanolichens


Kun Silprasit, Supaporn Seetaha, Parinya Pongsanarakul, Supa Hannongbua and Kiattawee Choowongkomon

Anti-HIV-1 reverse transcriptase activities of hexane extracts from some Asian medicinal plants


J. J. Kiplimo, C. A. Everia and N. A. Koorbanally

Novel polyene from Vernonia urticifolia (Asteraceae)


Ibegbulem, C. O., Eyong, E. U. and Essien, E. U.

Polymerization inhibition activity of Raphia hookeri palm sap and its effect on osmotic fragility of sickle cell red blood cells


Wu Xiong-Zhi, Zhang Shuang-Xia, Zhu Cong and Chen Dan

Effects of sulfated polysaccharide extracted from Prunella vulgaris on endothelial cells


Najihah Mohd. Hashim, Mawardi Rahmani, Shireen Shaharina Shamaun, Gwendoline Cheng Lian Ee, Mohd Aspollah Sukari, A. Manaf Ali, and Rusea Go

Dipeptide and xanthones from Artocarpus kemando Miq.


Mostafa A. A., Al-Rahmah A. N. and Abdel-Megeed A.

Evaluation of some plant extracts for their antifungal and antiaflatoxigenic activities


Usama Waheed Hawas, Eman Fadl Ahmed, Amal Fadl Abdelkader and Hanan Ahmed Anwar Aly Taie

Biological activity of flavonol glycosides from Rumex dentatus plant, an Egyptian Xerophyte


Mohammad Hossein Aarabi, Mohammad Esmaeil Shahaboddin, Karim Parastouei, Mitra Motallebi, Akbar Jafarnejad, Mehdi Mirhashemi and Gholam A. Hamidi

Evaluation of 11-hydroxy-?8-THC-dimethylheptyl effects on cytokines profile and locomotor tests in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis


Abdolhossein Rustaiyan, Katayoun Javidnia, Mohammad Hossein Farjam, Fateme Aboee-Mehrizi and Elham Ezzatzadeh

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of the Ephedra sarcocarpa growing in Iran


O. S. Olorunnisola, G. Bradley and A. J. Afolayan

Ethnobotanical information on plants used for the management of cardiovascular diseases in Nkonkobe Municipality, South Africa


Ying Chen, Qing-Wen Zhang, Song-Lin Li, Yan Yi, Jing Zhao, Ying Wang, and Wen-Cai Ye

PSidium guajava, a potential resource rich in corosolic acid revealed by high performance liquid chromatography


Danyang Dou, Wanjun Tao, Lingling Li, Tingjian Jia, Yiding Dou, Wings T. Y. Loo, Mary N. B. Cheung and Ziyuan Luo

The effect of polysaccharide peptide and taxol on human solid tumor tissue in vitro


Liangbin Zhou, Yan Liang, Wenqiong Wang, Haibo Tan, Menghua Xiao, Chen Fan and Rongmin Yu

Biotransformation of 4-phenylcoumarin by transgenic hairy roots of Polygonum multiflorum


Shabnum Shaheen, Mushtaq Ahmad, Farah Khan, Muhammad Zafar, Mir Ajab Khan, Asghari Bano, Shazia Sultana, Muhammad Jamil, Gul Jan and Muhammad Khan Leghari

Micormorphological diversity in leaf epidermal anatomy of Brachiaria species using elemental dispersive spectrophotometer analysis


Musa S. Musa, Fathelrhman E. Abdelrasool, Elsheikh A. Elsheikh, Lubna A. M. N. Ahmed, Abdel Latif E. Mahmoud and Sakina M. Yagi

Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in the Blue Nile State, South-eastern Sudan


Huaxi Xiao, Qinlu Lin, Gao-Qiang Liu, Yue Wu, Wei Tian, Wei Wu and Xiangjin Fu

Effect of green tea polyphenols on the gelatinization and retrogradation of rice starches with different amylose contents


Pengfei Liu, Wanyu Shi, Yantao Zhao and Xiuhui Zhong

Effects of Chinese herbal formula Maxing Shigan powder on IgA secreting cells in chicken bronchus


Heidar Meftahizade

Evaluation of antibacterial activity and wound healing of Pistacia atlantica and Pistacia khinjukn


Lamia Yacoubi, Lotfi Rabaoui, Mohamed Hédi Hamdaoui, Sami Fattouch, Raja Serairi, Nadia Kourda and Saloua Ben Khamsa

Anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects of Trigonella foenum-graecum Linnaeus, 1753 (Fenugreek) seed extract in experimental pulmonary fibrosis


Kefei Hu, Yonghua Li, Yukai Du, Benwei Su and Dong Lu

Analysis of 1-deoxynojirimycin component correlation between medicinal parasitic loranthus from loranthaceae and their mulberry host trees


Talibi I., Amkraz N., Askarne L., Msanda F., Saadi B., Boudyach E. H., Boubaker H., Bouizgarne B. and Ait Ben Aoumar A.

Antibacterial activity of moroccan plants extracts against Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis, the causal agent of tomatoes’ bacterial canker


Ezzeddine Saadaoui, Arbi Guetat, Nizar Tlili, Mohamed El Gazzah and Abdelhamid Khaldi

Subspecific variability of Tunisian wild populations of Capparis spinosa L.


Gian Gabriele Franchi, Cristina Nencini and Elga Collavoli and Paola Massarelli

Composition and antioxidant activity in vitro of different St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) extracts


Nobakht Ali

Effects of different levels of chicory (Cichorium intybus L.), zizaphora (Zizaphora tenuior L.), nettle (Urtica dioica L.) and savoury (Satureja hortensis L.) medicinal plants on carcass characteristics of male broilers


Halil Ozkol, Ismail Koyuncu and Yasin Tuluce

Some medicinal plants counteract alterations of neuroendocrine stress response system, oxidative and nitrosative stress caused by repeated restraint in rats


Mammedova Z. A. and Ibadullayeva S. J.

Antimicrobe characteristics of essence oils of some species of the Nepeta L. Genus


Le Ying, Ping Xu, Shuangru Huang and Yuefei Wang

Antioxidant activity of bioactive compounds extracted from Ampelopsis grossedentata leaves by optimized supercritical carbon dioxide


Tariq Mahmood, Faiza Meer, Faiza Munir, Nazia Nazar and Ishrat Naveed

Genetic diversity of selected Apocynaceae species based on chloroplast gene rps11


Gölge Sarikamiş and Ruhsar Yanmaz

Effects of cultivar and developmental stage on glucosinolates in garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.)


Mostafa, Farajpour. Mohsen, Ebrahimi. Reza, Amiri, Seyed Ahmad Sadat Nori and Rasoul Golzari

Investigation of variations of the essential oil content and morphological values in yarrow (Achillea santolina) from Iran




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (18), 2011


Contents:

Review



Yongsi Zhang, Changmin Liao, Jun Li and Xiaohong Liu

A review on resource status, bioactive ingredients, clinical applications and biological progress in Bergenia



Research Articles



Francisco E. B. Junior, Edinardo F. F. Matias, Dayanne R. Oliveira, Andreza G. B. Ramos, Cícera N. Fernandes, Heloisa H. F. Souza, Luiz J. Lacerda Neto, Anita O. B. Pereira, Mariana K. A. Araruna, Francisco A. V. Santos, Henrique D. M. Coutinho, Jose G. M. Costa, Marta R. Kerntopf and Irwin R. A. Menezes

Modulatory antibiotic activity and chemical composition of hydroalcoholic extract of Croton campestris


Yasser Bustanji, Ala Issa, Ahlam Moulay, Mohammad Hudaib, Khaled Tawaha, Mohammad Mohammad, Saja Hamed, Ihab Masri and Feras Q. Alali

Hormone sensitive lipase inhibition by selected medicinal plants


Md. Sazedul Karim Sarker and Chul Ju Yang

Eosungcho (Houttuynia cordata) with multi strain probiotics as alternative to antibiotic for broiler production


Fu-kang Gao, Ying-hui Yong, Chuan-chao Dai

Effects of endophytic fungal elicitor on two kinds of terpenoids production and physiological indexes in Euphorbia pekinensis suspension cells



Mohammad Shafie B. Shafie, Sayed M. Zain Hasan, Abdullah M. Zain and Ramisah M. Shah

RAPD and ISSR markers for comparative analysis of genetic diversity in wormwood capillary (Artemisia capillaris) from Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia


Mehdi Monfared, Abolfazl Kamkar, Sahar Ghaffari Khaligh, Ashkan Jebelli Javan, Farzad Asadi and Afshin Akhundzadeh Basti

Antioxidative effects of Iranian Urtica dioica L. extracts on the oxidation of sunflower oil


Alireza Azizzadeh Delshad, Mohsen Naseri, Maedeh Parvizi, Noor Fattah and Maryam Sharayeli

The Iranian traditional herbal medicine ostokhodus can prevent axotomy-induced apoptosis in spinal motoneurons in neonate rats[Abstract] [Full Text] [Full Article - PDF] pp. 4446 - 4451



Meifang Peng, Zhihua Liao, Yue Zheng, Chunxian Yang, Lingjiang Zeng, Min Chen, Xingjia Ming and Xiaozhong Lan

Establishment of a high frequency plant regeneration system of Rauvolfia verticillata via somatic embryogenesis


Chia-Yuan Liu, Yuen-Liang Lai, Chin-Ping Lin, Yu-Tse Wu, Tung-Hu Tsai and Yu-Jen Chen

Anti-tumor effect of Archidendron lucidum (benth) against esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer and hepatoma


A. H. A. Abdelmageed, Q. Z. Faridah, F. M. A. Norhana, A. A. Julia and Midhzar Abdul Kadir

Micropropagation of Etlingera elatior (Zingiberaceae) by using axillary bud explants


Xiaozhong Lan, Suxia Ren, Yijian Yang, Min Chen, Hong Quan and Zhihua Liao

Molecular cloning and characterization of the gene encoding pinoresinol synthase from Tibet Dysosma


José R. Santin, Alessandro Silveira, Elisa Muller, Vanessa D. Claudino, Alexandre B. Cruz, Cristiani Bürger, Rilton A. de Freitas and Angela Malheiros

Evaluation of the acute toxicity, genotoxicity and mutagenicity of ethanol extract of Piper aduncum


Masoud Kazemi, Mohammad Dakhili, Abolfazl Dadkhah, Zahra Yasrebifar and Kambiz Larijani

Composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil of Artemisia kermanensis Podl., an endemic species from Iran [Abstract] [Full Text] [Full Article - PDF] pp. 4481 - 4486


C. H. Ahn, Y. S. Kim, S. Lim, J. S. Yi and Y. E. Choi

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and RAPD-derived sequence characterized amplified regions (SCAR) marker development to identify Chinese and Korean ginseng


Adeel Mahmood, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Aqeel Mahmood, Yasmin Sangi, Hamayun Shaheen, Ijaz Ahmad and Zerqa Nawaz

Ethnobotanical survey of common medicinal plants used by people of district Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan


M. Akram, M. Uzair, Nadia Shamshad Malik, Arshad Mahmood, Naila Sarwer, Asadullah Madni and H. M. Asif

Mentha arvensis Linn.: A review article


Arifa Tahir and Rabia Moeen

Comparison of antibacterial activity of water and ethanol extracts of Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze against dental caries and detection of antibacterial components


Cibele Bonacorsi, Luiz Marcoks da Fonseca, Maria Stella G. Raddi, Rodrigo R. Kitagawa, Miriam Sannomiya and Wagner Vilegas

Relative antioxidant activity of Brazilian medicinal plants for gastrointestinal diseases


Nizar Tlili, Ahlem Bargougui, Walid Elfalleh, Saida Triki and Nizar Nasri

Phenolic compounds, protein, lipid content and fatty acids compositions of cactus seeds


Ishfaq Hameed and Farrukh Hussain

Stomatal studies of some selected medicinal plants of family solanaceae


Hossein Ahmadi Chenarbon, Saeid Minaei and Akbar Arabhosseini

Effective parameters on drying of Hypericum perforatum L. leaves


Fatemeh Nejatzadeh Barandozi, Sattar Tahmasebi Enferadi, Mohammad Reza Naghavi, Mohammad Esmaiel Hassani, Younes Mostofi and Amir Mousavi

Effects of fertilizer on morphological traits in Aloe vera


An Na Yang, Lin Lu, Chen Xi Wu and Ming Mei Xia

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Huangshan Magnolia (Magnolia cylindrica)


Lianhua Wu, Yougen Wu, Qiaosheng Guo, Shaopeng Li, Kaibing Zhou and Junfeng Zhang

Comparison of genetic diversity in Pogostemon cablin from China revealed by RAPD, morphological and chemical analyses


Jing Li Yang, Chen Guang Zhou, Bo Zhao, Chun Lian Jin, Teng Zhang and Cheng Hao Li

Rapid direct adventitious shoot organogenesis and plant regeneration from mature seed explants of Phellodendron amurense Rupr.


Mustafa Türk, Bulent Kaya, Yusuf Menemen and Serpil Oguztüzün

Apoptotic and necrotic effects of plant extracts belonging to the genus Alchemilla L. species on HeLa cells in vitro



Hong Zhang, Zhen Wu, Youming Li, Jing Xu, Ling Shen, Zhigang Wu and Lei Geng

Parthenolide augments the anticancer effects of 5-fluorouracil on cell apoptosis and decreased NF-kB activity in a gastric cancer cell line


Carolina Lopes Bastos, Camila Souza da Mata, Vitor Hugo Maia, Rafael Augusto Xavier Borges, Luciana Ozório Franco, Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira and Neusa Tamaio

Anatomical and molecular identification of “guaco” Mikania glomerata and Mikania laevigata (Asteraceae), two important medicinal species from Brazil


Naser Montazeri, Elham Baher, Fateme Mirzajani, Zahra Barami and Soghra Yousefian

Phytochemical contents and biological activities of Rosa canina fruit from Iran


Nisar Ahmad, Bin Guo, Hina Fazal, Bilal Haider Abbasi, Chun-Zhao Liu, Tariq Mahmood and Zabta Khan Shinwari

Feasible plant regeneration in black pepper from petiole explants


A. H. Beiki, F. Keify and J. Mozafari

Rapid genomic DNA isolation from corm of Crocus species for genetic diversity analysis


Arash Khaki, Fatemeh Fathi Azad, Mohamad Nouri and Amir Afshin Khaki

Effects of basil, Ocimum basilicum on spermatogenesis in rats


Mahdi Shirdel, Alireza Motallebi-Azar, Sirous Masiha, Najmedin Mortazavi, Mansour Matloobi and Yavar Sharafi

Effects of inorganic nitrogen source and NH4+: NO3- ratio on proliferation of dog rose (Rosa canina)


Eun-Ju Jung, Myung-Suk Bae, Eun-Kyung Jo, Young-Hong Jo and Seung-Cheol Lee

Antioxidant activity of different parts of eggplant


Zakaria El-Khayat, Jihan Hussein, Tahany Ramzy and Magdy Ashour

Antidiabetic antioxidant effect of Panax ginseng


Sha Sha Chu, Shao Liang Liu, Qi Zhi Liu, Zhi Long Liu and Shu Shan Du

Composition and toxicity of Chinese Dracocephalum moldavica (Labiatae) essential oil against two grain storage insects


Dalel Brahmi, Yousra Ayed, Chayma Bouaziz, Lazhar Zourgui, Wafa Hassen and Hassen Bacha

Hepatoprotective effect of cactus extract against carcinogenicity of benzo(a)pyrene on liver of Balb/C mice


Dossou Sika Salomé Kpoviessi, Fernand A. Gbaguidi, Cosme Kossouoh, Pierre Agbani, Eléonore Yayi-Ladekan, Brice Sinsin, Mansourou Moudachirou, Georges C. Accrombessi and Joëlle Quetin-Leclercq

Chemical composition and seasonal variation of essential oil of Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich.) Hochst subsp birrea leaves from Benin


Zengjun Guo, Ying Xu, Ling Han, Xiaoqian Bo, Chen Huang and Lei Ni

Antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of the acetone extracts of root of Euphorbia hylonoma and its ellagic acid derivatives


Saeed Tajbakhsh, Mahsa Ilkhani, Abdolhossein Rustaiyan, Kambiz Larijani, Kohzad Sartavi, Rahim Tahmasebi and Golandam Asayesh

Antibacterial effect of the brown alga Cystoseira trinodis


E. J. Ndebia, E. Umapathy, B. N. Nkeh-Chungag and J. E. Iputo

Anti-inflammatory properties of Albuca setosa and its possible mechanism of action


Amir Muhammad Khan, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Syed Aneel Gillani and Faizan Ullah

Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants of Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Pakistan


Amir Muhammad Khan, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Syed Aneel Gillani and Faizan Ullah

Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants of Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Pakistan


Haider Ali, Junaid Sannai, Hassan Sher and Abdul Rashid

Ethnobotanical profile of some plant resources in Malam Jabba valley of Swat, Pakistan


Hossein Afshari, Mostafa Eftekhari, Miad Faraji, Abdol Ghaffar Ebadi and Hossein Abbaspour

Effect of different levels of gibberellic acid on seed sprouting of some species of Salvia genus grown in Iran



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (19), 2011


Contents:

Review



Uttara Singh, Anita Kochhar and Sadhana Singh

Blood glucose lowering potential of some herbal plants


Juan A. Ascacio-Valdés, José J. Buenrostro-Figueroa, Antonio Aguilera-Carbo, Arely Prado-Barragán, Raúl Rodríguez-Herrera and Cristóbal N. Aguilar

Ellagitannins: Biosynthesis, biodegradation and biological properties


Riaz Ur Rehman, Naveed Akhtar, M. Akram, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Qaiser Jabeen, H. M. Asif and S. M. Ali Shah

Bacillary dysentery: A review



Research Articles



A. Poongodi, S. Thilagavathi, V. Aravindhan and A. Rajendran

Observations on some ethnomedicinal plants in Sathyamangalam forests of Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India


Sumathi S., Malathy N., Dharani B., Sivaprabha J., Hamsa D., Radha P. and Padma P. R.

Cytotoxic studies of latex of Euphorbia antiquorum in in vitro models


D. M. Kadam, R. K. Goyal and M. K. Gupta

Mathematical modeling of convective thin layer drying of basil leaves


Raginee Verma, G. P. Satsangi, and J. N. Shrivastava

Susceptibility of a weed Calotropis procera (Ait.) against clinical isolates of dermatophytes


Siavash Hosseinpour Chermahini and Fadzilah Adibah Abdul Majid

Antimicrobial activity of cashew leaves’ extracts used in cosmetics before and after treatment with activated carbon


N. K. Srivastava and A. K. Srivastava

Allocation of different 14C substrates into primary metabolites in relation to total alkaloid accumulation into Catharanthus roseus plants


P. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Ramanathan, L. Ramkumar, R. Shanmugapriya and G. Renugadevi

The antioxidant and free radical scavenging effect of Avicennia officinalis


F. Abrahimpour, G. R. Bakhshi Khaniki, M. Ghanavati and Kh Eidi Zade

Investigation of genetic variation on different populations of Silybum marianum L. (Fabaceae) by using cytogenetic parameters


Madhu Chandel, Satwinderjeet Kaur and Subodh Kumar

Studies on the genoprotective/antioxidant potential of methanol extract of Anthocephalus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq



Ju-Sung Kim, Yeo-Jin Sa, Tae Kyung Hyun and Myong-Jo Kim

Comparison of biological activities of Ribes fasciculatum according to regional differences


Sanmuga Priya Ekambaram, Senthamil Selvan Perumal and Venkataraman Subramanian

Assessment of the in-vivo and in-vitro antioxidant potential of Strychnos potatorum Linn. seeds in Freund’s adjuvant induced arthritic rats


Shalinder Kaur, Harminder Pal Singh, Daizy Rani Batish and Ravinder Kumar Kohli

Chemical characterization, antioxidant and antifungal activity of essential oil from Eucalyptus tereticornis


Jie Cui, Xin Yang, Ai-jun Dong, Da-you Cheng, Jing Wang, Hai-tian Zhao, Ren-bo Xu, Pu Wang and Wen-jing LI

Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of Euphorbia fischeriana essential oil from China


Mondal Sunanda and Paul Ranjan

Medicinal plants grown in and around Guskara used by local poor people for treating some common ailments


Punna Ramulu, Nappan Veettil Giridharan and Paruchuri Udayasekhararao

Hypolipidemic effect of soluble dietary fiber (galactomannan) isolated from fenugreek seeds in WNIN (GR-Ob) obese rats


Sakineh Abbaszadeh, Tayebeh Radjabian, Massoud Taghizadeh, Faezeh Fazeli and Yasaman Salmaki

Characterization of fatty acids in different organs of some Iranian Echium plants


Ghassem Habibi Bibalani

Average stem biomass of Althaea ficifolia in Shanjan Rangelands, East Azerbaijan, Iran


Hossein Jahangirian, Jelas Haron, Sidik Silong, Nor Azah Yusof, Kamyar Shameli, Samira Eissazadeh, Roshanak Rafiee Moghaddam, Behnam Mahdavi and Mahtab Jafarzade

Antibacterial effect of phenyl fatty hydroxamic acids synthesized from canola oil


Y. Wen Xu, Dan Zhao, Shuai Shuai Lv, Wen Ting Yang, Jun Wen Chen and Wei Wu

Salicylic acid-induced physiological responses and monoterpene accumulation in Houttuynia cordata Thunb


Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula and Indra Prakash

Diterpene glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana


Aijing Leng, Qiuyang Xu, Ming Xie, Wenjie Zhang, Yongrui Bao, Yang Du, Zhongzhe Cheng, Haibo Wang, Xixiang Ying and Tingguo Kang

ICP-MS determination of trace elements of different growth time in the leaves of Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. var. major


Roshila Moodley, Hafizah Chenia, Sreekanth B. Jonnalagadda and Neil Koorbanally

Antibacterial and anti-adhesion activity of the pentacyclic triterpenoids isolated from the leaves and edible fruits of Carissa macrocarpa


K. K. Naidoo, R. M. Coopoosamy and G. Naidoo

Screening of Chromolaeana odorata (L.) King and Robinson for antibacterial and antifungal properties


Bochra Gargouri, Riadh ben Mansour, Malek Mseddi Jmal, Rihab Nasr Boujelben, Noureddine Allouch, Saloua Lassoued and Khaled hamden

Hydroxytyrosol supplementation inhibits oxidative DNA damage, suppresses protein-lipid oxidation and modulates antioxidant enzymes in human peripheral blood lymphocytes


Vahabi S, Najafi E and Alizadeh S

In vitro antimicrobial effects of some herbal essences against oral pathogens


Naveed Ahmad, Farooq Anwar, Sohail Hameed and Mary C. Boyce

Antioxidant and antimicrobial attributes of different solvent extracts from leaves and flowers of akk [Calotropis procera (Ait.) Ait. F.)]


Soma Saeed, Faiza Munir, Ishrat Naveed, Ghazala Kaukab Raja and Tariq Mahmood

Phylogenetics of selected Plantago species on the basis of rps14 chloroplast gene


Mohammad Sadat Hosseini Grouh, Heidar Meftahizade, Naser Lotfi, Vahid Rahimi and Behdad Baniasadi

Doubling the chromosome number of Salvia hains using colchicine: Evaluation of morphological traits of recovered plants


Kun Silprasit, Supaporn Seetaha, Parinya Pongsanarakul, Supa Hannongbua and Kiattawee Choowongkomon

Anti-HIV-1 reverse transcriptase activities of hexane extracts from some Asian medicinal plants


Ömer Beyhan, Mehmet Aktaş, Necmettin Yilmaz, Nurten Şimşek and Resul Gerçekçioglu

Determination of fatty acid compositions of some important almond (Prunus amygdalus L.) varieties selected from Tokat province and Eagean region of Turkey


Vali Rabiei, Elham Shirzadeh, Yavar Sharafi and Najmedin Mortazavi

Effects of postharvest applications of calcium nitrate and acetate on quality and shelf-life improvement of “Jonagold” apple fruit


Esfandiar Heidarian, Effat Jafari-Dehkordi and Ali Seidkhani-Nahal

Lipid-lowering effect of artichoke on liver phosphatidate phosphohydrolase and plasma lipids in hyperlipidemic rats


Ying Guo, Hua-liang Liu and Ke Yuan

Determination of trace elements of Melicope patulinervia from different part by microwave digestion-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)


Eun-Soon Son, Jeung-Min Lee, Jeong-Un Choi and Hae-Ryong Park

Selective cytotoxicity of Carthamus tinctorius against glucose-deprived HT-29 human colon carcinoma cells


Sina Cosmulescu and Ion Trandafir

Seasonal variation of total phenols in leaves of walnut (Juglans regia L.)


He Qin Li, Chun Qi Bai, Sha Sha Chu, Ligang Zhou, Shu Shan Du, Zhi Long Liu and Qi Zhi Liu

Chemical composition and toxicities of the essential oil derived from Kadsura heteroclita stems against Sitophilus zeamais and Meloidogyne incognita


Juengwatanatrakul Thaweesak, Sakamoto Seiichi, Tanaka Hiroyuki and Putalun Waraporn

Elicitation effect on production of plumbagin in in vitro culture of Drosera indica L.


Vali Rabiei, Saba Es-haghi, Mohammad-Ali Aazami and Yavar Sharafi

Combined effects of hot air and calcium chloride on quality and antioxidant enzymes activity in ‘red delicious’ apple fruits


Sun Guang Li, Xu Xu Dong, Yang Jun Shan, Zhong Ming Liang, Lv Li Xun and Jing Quan Yuan

Non-alkaloid components from Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil. and their chemotaxonomic significance


A. Khaleghian, Y. Nakaya and H. Nazari

Biodiesel production from Euphorbia tirucalli L.


M. Akram, S. M. Ali Shah, H. M. Asif, Ghazala Shaheen, Tahira Shamim, M. Ibrahim Khan, Asmat Ullah and Khalil Ahmed

Comparative study of similarity and identity of human albumin with some selected organism albumin




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (20), 2011


Contents:

Review



M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, H. M. Asif, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Arshad Mahmood and Nadia Shamshad Malik

Vitamin A: A review article


M. Akram, H. M. Asif, N. Akhtar, P. A. Shah, M. Uzair, G. Shaheen, T. Shamim, S. M. A. Shah and K. Ahmad

Glycogen metabolism and glycogen storage diseases: A review



Research Articles



A. R. Zebarjadi, Sh. Najafi, H. R. Ghasempour and J. Motamedi

Establishment of a practical tissue culture for producing hairy roots of Valeriana officinalis L. via Agrobacterium rhizogenes


Masoud Kazemi, Mohammad Dakhili, Abolfazl Dadkhah, Zahra Yasrebifar and Kambiz Larijani

Composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil of Artemisia kermanensis Podl., an endemic species from Iran


Marielle Cascaes Inácio, Bianca Waléria Bertoni, Suzelei de Castro França and Ana Maria Soares Pereira

In vitro conservation and low cost micropropagation of Cochlospermum regium (Mart. Ex. Scharank)


Sang Min Kim and Byung-Hun Um

Evaluation of the antioxidant activity of phenolic compounds among blueberry cultivars by HPLC-ESI/MS and on-line HPLC-ABTS system


Demet ALTINDAL and Nüket ALTINDAL

The effects of sage volatile oil (Salvia officinalis) and Turkish oregano volatile oil (Origanum onites) on stored cowpea (Vigna nisensis L.) seed


Rajbir Kaur, Upendra Sharma, Bikram Singh and Saroj Arora

Antimutagenic potential of chickrassy (Chukrasia tabularis A. Juss) bark


Rasul Jalili Marandi, Abbas Hassani, Ali Abdollahi and Soyli Hanafi

Application of Carum copticum and Satureja hortensis essential oils and salicylic acid and silver thiosulfate in increasing the vase life of cut rose flower


Rasul Jalili Marandi, Abbas Hassani, Ali Abdollahi and Soyli Hanafi

Improvement of the vase life of cut gladiolus flowers by essential oils, salicylic acid and silver thiosulfate


V. Sudarshana Deepa, K. Rajaram, M. Anis Kumar, Soni Das and P. Suresh kumar

High frequency regeneration and shoot multiplication in Andrographis lineata wall. ex. nees: an endemic medicinal plant of south India


Mohd Sabri Pak-Dek, Azizah Osman, Najla Gooda Sahib, Nazamid Saari, Masturah Markom, Azizah Abdul Hamid and Farooq Anwar

Effects of extraction techniques on phenolic components and antioxidant activity of Mengkudu (Morinda citrifolia L.) leaf extracts


Nada K. K. Hendi, Habeeb S. Naher and Alaa H. Al-Charrakh

In vitro antibacterial and antifungal activity of Iraqi propolis


Kiran Yasmin Khan, Mir Ajab Khan, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Mushtaq Ahmad, Mamoona Munir, Imran Hussain, Hina Fazal, Paras Mazari, Barkat Ali, Nighat Seema and Syeda Huma Bokhari

Palynomorphological characterization of some species of Ficus L. from Pakistan


Abd El-Moneim M. R. Afify, Emad A. Shalaby and Hossam S. El-Beltagi

Antioxidant activity of aqueous extracts of different caffeine products


Ayda Khadhri, Ridha El Mokni, Khaled Mguis, Ines Ouerfelli and Maria Eduarda M. Araújo

Variability of two essential oils of Ammi visnaga (L.) Lam. a traditional Tunisian medicinal plant


Ahmed E. Abdel Moneim, Mohamed A. Dkhil and Saleh Al-Quraishy

Studies on the effect of pomegranate (Punica granatum) juice and peel on liver and kidney in adult male rats


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

Antifungal activity of the essential oil of Iranian medicinal plants


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

Garlic-mode treatment effects on rat brain redox status


Magdy M. D. Mohammed, Eman R. El-Sharkawy and Azza A. Matloub

Cytotoxic flavonoids from Diplotaxis harra (Forssk.) Boiss. growing in Sinai


F. Ahrabi, Sh. Enteshari and A. Moradshahi

Allelopathic potential of para-hydroxybenzoic acid and coumarin on canola: Talaieh cultivar


Ahmad Reza Berimavandi, Davood Hashemabadi, Mohammad Vali Facouri Ghaziani and Behzad Kaviani

Effects of plant density and sowing date on the growth, flowering and quantity of essential oil of Calendula officinalis L.


Adefuye A. O., Samie A. and Ndip R. N.

In-vitro evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of extracts of Bridelia micrantha on selected bacterial pathogens


Mudi, S. Y., Ibrahim, H. and Bala, M. S.

Acute toxicity studies of the aqueous root extract of Lawsonia inermis Linn. in rats


Ali Shafaghat

Chemical constituents, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of the hexane extract from root and seed of Levisticum persicum Freyn and Bornm.


Suvarna Shenvi, Vinod, Rajendra Hegde, Anil Kush and G. Chandrasekara Reddy

A unique water soluble formulation of ß-asarone from sweet flag (Acorus calamus L.) and its in vitro activity against some fungal plant pathogens


Mughal Qayum, Muhammad Nisar, Barkat Ali Khan, Mussarat Akhtar, Waqar Ahmad Kaleem, Muhammad Imran Khan, Tariq Mahmood, Shakir Ahmad Shahid and M. Zia-Ul-Haq

Nematicidal potential of Impatiens bicolor Royle


Fatemeh Hajighasemi, Vida Hashemi and Fariba Khoshzaban

Cytotoxic effect of Mentha spicata aqueous extract on cancerous cell lines in vitro


H. R. Khazaie, E. Eyshi Rezaie, M. Bannayan

Application times and concentration of humic acid impact on aboveground biomass and oil production of hyssop (Hyssopus of?cinalis)


Sina Rad, Hossein Afshari, Mehdi Mohamadi Moghadam, Sohyla Tahmasbi, Hamidreza Ziaolhagh and Abdolghafar Ebadi

The study of antifungal effects of herbal essences on Aspergillus parasiticus, an aflatoxin producer in pistachio (Pistacia vera)


Anwar Ali Shad, Hamid Ullah Shah, Jehan Bakht, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary and Javid Ullah

Nutraceutical potential and bioassay of Apium graveolens L. grown in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan


Rahman S, Imran M, Muhammad N, Hassan N, Chisthi A. K., Khan A. F., Sadozai K. S. and Khan S. M.

Antibacetial screening of leaves and stem of Carica papaya


Tariq Mahmood, Soma Saeed, Ishrat Naveed, Faiza Munir, Ghazala Kaukab Raja

Assessment of antioxidative activities of extracts from selected Plantago species


Seyyed Najmedin Mortazavi, Seyyedeh-Farahnaz Talebi, Rouh-Angiz Naderi and Yavar Sharafi

Regulation of ethylene biosynthesis by nitric oxide and thidiazuron during postharvest of rose


Wei Wang, Haibo Shi, Ruonan Zhu, Dianwen Zhang, Yan Han, and Tingting Sun

Simultaneous determination of three bioactive homoisoflavanones in rhizomes of Polygonatum odoratum


P. P. Sarvalkar, M. V. Walvekar and L. P. Bhopale

Antioxidative effect of curcumin (Curcuma longa) on lipid peroxidation and lipofuscinogenesis in submandibular gland of D-galactose- induced aging male mice


Tariq Habib, Zahid Hussain Malik, Muhammad Altaf Hussain and Muhammad Qayyum Khan

Plant species diversity along the altitudinal gradient at Garhi Dopatta Hills, Muzaffarabad


E. Mohiuddin, Khan Usmanghani, M. Akram, H.M.Asif, Naveed Akhtar, Pervaiz A. Shah and M. Uzair

Morus nigra - L. A.


Guru Prasad B. R.

Assessment of ethno-medicinal plants from Chamundi Hill, Mysore




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