As its name would suggest, flaxseed is? a seed from the flax plant! These sometimes golden or reddish brown seeds come from the flax herb (Linum usitatissimum), and are about the same size as sesame seeds. The National Institutes of Health [2] (NIH) suggests this blue flowering plant may have originated in Egypt. While small in size and mild in flavor, flaxseeds pack a nutritional punch! Many p...

Aim Understanding plant diversity and how different traits have shaped the current biodiversity setting across world is one of major challenges for evolutionary biology. In this sense, genus Linum been broadly studied as a model species showing heterostyly, but no studies attempted to investigate possible correlations between heterostyly diversification. Thus, in study we aim explore origin div...

In a wild plant-pathogen system, host resistance and pathogen virulence varied markedly among local populations. Broadly virulent pathogens occurred more frequently in highly resistant host populations, whereas avirulent pathogens dominated susceptible populations. Experimental inoculations indicated a negative trade-off between spore production and virulence. The nonrandom spatial distribution...

the natural lignan podophyllotoxin, a dimerized product of two phenylpropanoid moieties which occurs in a few plant species, is a pharmacologically important compound for its anticancer activities. optimization of the in vitro cultures might lead to a renewable source of lignans for medicinal uses. in order to maximize efficiency of podophyllotoxin accumulation via in vitro cultures, the effect...