Laboratory of Natural Products and Metabolic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. Institute of Ornamental Plants Research, Southwest...

Rosa damascena mill L., known as Gole Mohammadi in is one of the most important species of Rosaceae family flowers. R. damascena is an ornamental plant and beside perfuming effect, several pharmacological properties including anti-HIV, antibacterial, antioxidant, antitussive, hypnotic, antidiabetic, and relaxant effect on tracheal chains have been reported for this plant. This article is a comp...

Cyclamen persicum (cyclamen) is a commercially valuable, winter-blooming perennial plant. We cloned two cyclamen orthologues of AGAMOUS (AG), CpAG1 and CpAG2, which are mainly expressed in the stamen and carpel, respectively. Cyclamen flowers have 5 petals, but expression of a chimeric repressor of CpAG1 (CpAG1-SRDX) caused stamens to convert into petals, resulting in a flower with 10 petals. B...

The concentration of antioxidant compounds is constitutive and variable from species to species and is also variable considering the development of the plant tissue. In this review, we take into consideration the antioxidant changes and the physiological, biochemical and molecular factors that are able to modulate the accumulation of antioxidant compounds in ornamental flowers during the whole ...

Nature of Work: The development of new and superior plants helps to stimulate excitement and demand, improve competitiveness and profitability, and ultimately deliver superior and more diverse products to consumers. Numerous sources of novel traits have provided the current diversity in ornamental plants including wild collections of whole plants and seeds, open-pollinated seedling selection, r...

To the. Editor of" The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?I beg to ask the favour of your publishing the following lines which contain additional facts and information in connexion with Ixora and which have not been published in the Indian Medical Gazette. It will not come into general use if trouble is not taken to spread its cultivation in hospital compounds and gardens or in other places. As Ixor...