Herbal medicine has been used for the treatment of human and livestock ailments since ancient times. Numerous rural and urban communities in Ethiopia practice traditional medicine and transfer the knowledge verbally from generation to generation. Thus, t
The vegetation has naturally recovered to form a shrub community with well-grown shrubs and belongs to mid-restoration stage according to the succession process of subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest (Xiang et al. 2016). However, the shrub community has no obvious arbor layers and herbaceous ...
more than 80 % of vascular plants are herbaceous plants (Whigham2004), and herbaceous plants are of great significance for maintaining the species diversity of forest ecosystems. Compared with trees and shrubs, understory herbs are more sensitive ...
A total of 276 articles were included in the systematic review, with a further 145 reviewed for information on a general discussion of scrub typhus ecology. Only 6 articles were excluded, as the full text could not be obtained (Fig.1). Systematic review articles were published between 1924 an...
Short blades of green wheat sprouted out of dark soil near the edge of the road. Once in a while, I spotted evergreen windbreaks. Some sheltered foundations of houses that fell apart years ago. Highways in the country are narrow; few allow for a shoulder. Reflectors, paced every hundred...
The final article in a series of three publications examining the global distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of malaria is presented here. The first publication examined the DVS from the Americas, with the second covering those species prese
many tree species also assist staple crops through soil-fertility improvement. This was demonstrated in an analysis of more than 90 peer-reviewed studies on the planting of nitrogen-fixing green fertilizers, including trees and shrubs, which found consistent evidence of benefits to cereals in semi-...
Teklu Y. Ethnobotanical study on the diversity and utilization of wild edible plants in Majang Zone of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia. Int J Innov Sci Res Technol. 2019;4:880–6. Google Scholar Yimer A, Forsido SF, Addis G, Ayelign A. Nutritional composition of some wild edible pla...
Camellia sinensis belongs to the Theaceae family and has small perennial shrubs widely used to produce green and black teas [131]. Its beneficial properties are attributed to green tea’s polyphenol components (catechins). Epicatechin-3-gallate and epigallocatechin-3 gallate are the two significant ...