Visiting the plant kingdom

Plant kingdom Nutraceuticals for diabetes

Recent years witnessed an upsurge in the use of nutraceuticals, nutritionals and naturals in therapeutics at global level. Conventional treatment options available as synthetic drugs does not meet properly the therapeutic needs for treating diabetes and the herbal remedies provide a better therapeutic hope with lesser side effects. Nutraceuticals are nonspecific biological therapies including b...

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Insights into Cross-Kingdom Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

Plant and human pathogens have evolved disease factors to successfully exploit their respective hosts. Phytopathogens utilize specific determinants that help to breach reinforced cell walls and manipulate plant physiology to facilitate the disease process, while human pathogens use determinants for exploiting mammalian physiology and overcoming highly developed adaptive immune responses. Emergi...

Metabolic symbiosis and the birth of the plant kingdom.

Eukaryotic cells are composed of a variety of membrane-bound organelles that are thought to derive from symbiotic associations involving bacteria, archaea, or other eukaryotes. In addition to acquiring the plastid, all Archaeplastida and some of their endosymbiotic derivatives can be distinguished from other organisms by the fact that they accumulate starch, a semicrystalline-storage polysaccha...

Patterns of diversity in cranial shape among plant-visiting bats

The independent origins of associations between morphology and ecology are often viewed as evidence of adaptation (e.g., Larson and Losos, 1996). There are many examples of morphological and ecological convergence among bats that are linked to diet. One of the most widely cited instances of trophic convergence is the independent evolution of plant-visiting in the families Pteropodidae (Old Worl...