BACKGROUND Recent circumstantial evidences are suggesting that an increasing number of Iranian patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis are unresponsive to meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime®). Pistacia atlantica is native plant in Iran (central, western, and eastern regions). Gum obtained Pistacia atlantica has been reported to possess considerable in vitro antimicrobial activity. In this study, w...

The growing demands of consumers for edible seed oils containing high unsaturated fatty acid and antioxidant content have resulted in considerable efforts to investigate plants as possible sources of oils and nuts. In this research, the amount of fatty acid compositions, total flavonoid, phenol and antioxidant properties of Pistacia atlantica and Pistacia khinjuk were evaluated. The kernel oil ...

Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is the only edible and cultivated species. economically importance dioecious species in genus Pistacia. There are basic problems pistachio breeding such as flower structure, long juvenile period alternate bearing. These can be overcome not with classical methods, but modern molecular methods. In this study, very high numbers of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), ...

background and purpose: pistacia atlantica, which belongs to the anacardiaceae family, grows in the zagrossian region of iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal properties of pistacia atlantica and olive leaf extracts against different fungal species. materials and methods: in this study, we assessed the activities of olive leaf extracts and pistacia atlantica leaf and fruit ...

The hydrodistilled essential oils from Pistacia vera.L stem exudates have been tested against three bacteria (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus spp) using three methods: agar disc diffusion, determination of MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) and in the liquid phase by Maruzella method. The results obtained showed that essential oil resin of P. vera L. has antimicrobial ac...

Mastic gum is a viscous light-green liquid obtained from the bark of Pistacia lentiscus var. chia. which belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. The gum has been fractionated to investigate the antimicrobial activity of the whole gum and its fractions against various strains of Helicobacter pylori. The polymeric gum fraction was separated from the essential oil and the resin (trunk exudates withou...

The Thousand-Island Lake region in Zhejiang Province, China is a highly fragmented landscape with a clear point-in-time of fragmentation as a result of flooding to form the reservoir. Islands in the artificial lake were surveyed to examine how population sex ratio of a dioecious plant specie Pistacia chinensis B. was affected by landscape fragmentation. A natural population on the mainland near...

The majority of the ethnographic references to greasewood gum or creosote gum probably refer to the resin of the creosote lac scale. This conclusion is based on the fairly consistent color (red) of the reported material, that the creosote bush itself does not produce usable (i.e., flowing) sap, and the lack of evidence that a creosote plant product (sap) was ever used. Examples in the archaeolo...

Leaf water potentials measured by in situ psychrometry were compared with leaf water potentials measured by the pressure chamber technique at various values of water potential in Helianthus annuus, Helianthus nuttallii, Vigna unguiculata, Nerium oleander, Pistacia vera, and Corylus avellana. In V. unguiculata, the leaf water potentials measured by the in situ psychrometer oscillated at the same...