The effect of herbal extracts four ethnomedicinal herbs (Zanthoxylumarmatum, Litsea cubeba, Heracleum nepalense, and Evodia fraxinifolia) culinary importance on the microbial quality sukuti (a traditional dried meat product) was studied. Herbal were prepared by grinding each herb to particle size < 250 μm, extracting in 50% (v/v) ethanol, concentrating a rotary vacuum evaporator at 50oC. Fou...

Along with the ongoing climate crisis, research efforts increasingly focus on Pleistocene environmental archives. Interglacial periods are of special interest, as they offer crucial information about natural interactions (i.e. not influenced by human activities) between and ecosystems within a climatic setting comparable to Holocene and/or change projections. The sedimentary infill Rodderberg c...

the occurrence of soil water repellency and its intensity were studied in three sites under pinus teada, petrocarya fraxinifolia and sombucus ebulus in talesh township, western part of guilan province. seventy nine undisturbed soil samples from 0–5 cm depth were collected for water repellency and water-soil contact angle to be determined in a dry season. soil water repellency was assessed using...