Known as dogwood,C. floridaroot barks were described as astringent, tonic, antiseptic (for ulcers, erysipelas, and anthrax), anti-periodic, stimulant, and febrifuge, and when it was used fresh, as emetic. The powdered bark was used as a substitute toCinchona, indicated for the treatment of ...
We identified the orthologs and paralogs of PAL, CHS, HMGR, and PK based on the genome sequences of Arabidopsis and grape (http://www.phytozome.net; Additional file 2: Table S7) and built phylogenetic trees (Figure 7 and Additional file 1: Figure S9). First, between FLJ and rFLJ, ...
A. officinalis leaves collected from several field-grown trees were used for SH. The upper epidermal peels were separated from the mesophyll as described earlier [25] and kept frozen separately in -80°C until RNA was extracted. Total RNA was isolated using Qiagen plant RNAeasy kit, from the...
Dogwood is a really interesting medicine. During the age of colonialism, it was right up there with quinine as a treatment for malaria and other infectious diseases, but, it has been completely forgotten. Somebody needs to dig in and figure out how we can use this herbal medicine in the mo...