From a questionnaire administered to traditional healers, we and found that three species of medicinal plants including: Alstonia boonei, Picralima nitida and Sarcocephalus latifolius that are commonly used, either singly or in mixtures to treat human diseases such as muscle and joints pains, ...
2003. Native Americans choice of species for medicinal use is dependent on plant family: con- firmation with meta-significance analysis. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 87:51-59.Moerman DE, Estabrook GF. Native Americans’ choice of species for medicinal use is dependent on plant family: confirmation...
Compared with other pairs, the Gedeo and Oromo ethnic groups showed more similarity in species distribution (9.5%), followed by Gedeo-Sidama and Oromo-Sidama (7.94% each) (Fig. 2). The Oromo ethnic group used 24% of medicinal plants distinctively, followed by the Gedeo ethnic group (16.4%...
Torreya grandis, a prominent tree species of the autochthonous subtropical region of China, possesses a drupe-like fruit containing a nut that is rich in nutrients and bioactive compounds. However, the effect of ... Qiandan Xie, Zhengchu Jiang, Chenliang Yu, Qi Wang, Wensheng Dai, Jiasheng ...
High-throughput sequencing has enabled efforts to comprehensively profile the genomes and transcriptomes of plant species with important medicinal, industrial, or scientific applications, and these data have fed computational approaches to enzyme discovery, such as plantiSMASH47 and the 1KP Project48, ...
Evaluation of some medicinal plant species for their antibacterial activity against Xanthomonas compestris pv.compestris, The black rot pathogen of cabbage. Indian Phytopathol., 57(3): 308-311.Tiwari, R.K.S., Chandravanshi, S.S., Ojha, B.M., 2004. Evaluation of some medicinal plant ...
Finally, it is worthwhile to highlight that the same plant species might be consumed cooked in one season and raw in another season (e.g., tender shoots vs. old leaves). In some cases, different preparations are linked with different perceived medicinal properties (e.g., Urtica dioica, see...
and other biological activities of relevance to wound healing. This possibly innovative behavior presents the first systematically documented case of active wound treatment with a plant species know to contain biologically active substances by a wild animal and provides new insights into the origins of ...
●Multiploidisation or genetic engineering of medicinal plants for improved quality and quantity such as for enhanced insect and disease resistance and for improved productivity of pharmaceutical compounds; ●Molecular farming to preserve precious and endangered medicinal plant species. ...
Table 1. Tissue cultures on medicinal plants Plant speciesMetabolitesPlant tissueReference Ajuga multiflora 20-Hydroxyecdysone HR 13 Ajuga reptans Anthocyanins Cell culture 14 Ajuga reptans Phytoecdysteroids (20-hydroxyecdysone, norcyasterone B, cyasterone, isocyasterone) HR 15 Ajuga reptans 20-Hydroxyec...