Pharbinilic acid (1), the first naturally occurring allogibberic acid, was isolated from ethanol extracts of morning glory (Pharbitis nil) seeds. Its absolute configuration was determined by NOESY NMR and ECD experiments. Compound 1 showed weak cytotoxicity against A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, and HCT-15 cells and weakly inhibited nitric oxide production in lipopolysaccharide-activated BV-2 microgl...

In 1976 a boy of 12 presented with unilateral morning glory syndrome connected with oedema of the posterior fundus and marked loss vision. The recovery was complete within a few months, with visual acuity improving to 6/4. The other eye could see 6/4 and had a normal fundus throughout.

One of the most important, but difficult forecasting problems in northern Australia is to predict the occurrence of deep convection. On occasion, convective storms are triggered along convergence lines that originate as a result of organised mesoscale circulations such as sea-breezes. If one can forecast these lines, it might be possible also to forecast the storms that they initiate. The Gulf ...

For life to survive outside the biosphere, it must be protected from UV light and other radiation by exterior shielding or through sufficient inherent resistance to survive without protection. We tested the plausibility of inherent resistance in plant seeds, reporting in a previous paper that Arabidopsis thaliana and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) seeds exposed for 558 days outside the Internation...