This commentary is motivated by the publication of the Briefing Document on the use of somatropin for non– growth hormone deficiency short stature by Eli Lily on 1 May 2003. This was followed by approval by the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) on 10 June 2003, and subsequent full approval by the FDA on 25 July 2003. Eli Lily...

BACKGROUND To describe a mammoplasty technique that we called "Florentine Lily" because of the shape of the pre-operative drawings similarity with the symbol lily Florentine. METHODS In a group of 190 women who underwent reductive mammoplasty, 23 women affected by severe enlarged breasts were selected. Main selection requirements were: 18-30 cm rising of the Areola-Nipple Complex (NAC). RES...

Flowering plants possess specialized extracellular matrices in the female organs of the flower that support pollen tube growth and sperm cell transfer along the transmitting tract of the gynoecium. Transport of the pollen tube cell and the sperm cells involves a cell adhesion and migration event in species such as lily that possess a transmitting tract epidermis in the stigma, style, and ovary....

Krejzar V., Mertelík J., Pánková I., Kloudová K., Kůdela V. (2008): Pseudomonas marginalis associated with soft rot of Zantedeschia spp. Plant. Protect. Sci., 44: 85–90. For the first time in the Czech Republic, bacteria identified as Pseudomonas marginalis, Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum and Pseudomonas putida were isolated from tubers of Zantedeschia spp. with symptoms of tuber...

“The greatest mitzvah,” Lily Lerner remembers what her mother taught her, “is to accompany a dead person burial” (Lerner 1980, p. 35) [...]

This study was conducted in two phases: 1) to investigate the effect of drought stress on relative water content and proline of leaf and 2) to evaluate the effect of drought stress and potassium concentrations in nutrient solution on the lily (Lilium longifolium × Asiatic cv. Termoli). Based on a completely randomized design in mixture of sand and perlite medium and in three levels of potassium...

Oriental hybrid lily “Arabian Red” mother scales were stored in moist cocopeat and perlite (1:1) for 3 or 5 months at 25 ̊C. The numbers of scale bulblets per mother scale were nearly identical in two durations. Increasing storage duration promoted the growth of roots (number and length) and No. scales per scale bulblets. And, diameters of scale bulblets were more in longer storage duration (5 m...

Chromosome morphology was studied in lily genotypes L. candidum, L. × formolongi, L. henryi and L. pumilum, and cultivars ‘Alma Ata,’ ‘Expression,’ ‘Marco Polo,’ ‘Muscadet’ and ‘Star Gazer’ belonging to the horticultural group Oriental hybrids. All genotypes tested represented 2n = 2x = 24 chromosomes. Chromosomal markers were established after Feulgen and silver staining, from analysis of the ...