background and aims: the achillea genus has a wide distributional range, and the differences in oil composition may be affected by different environmental factors such as plant genetic type, seasonality, and developmental stage. the aim of this research was to determine the chemical combination of the essential oils derived from flowering aerial parts of achillea millefolium, a. biebersteinii a...

The genus Achillea L. includes more than 100 species and is a polyploid complex of di-, tetra-, hexa- and octaploids, individuals.

Cultivation and preservation of yarrow has recently attracted wide attention due to its beneficial properties; however, genetic variation of Achillea species is still relatively unknown. We used RAPD and ISSR markers to assess genetic diversity in 16 accessions of yarrow belonging to two species native to Iran. Seven ISSR and nine RAPD primers generated 187 amplified fragments, of which 1...

The cytological features including chromosome numbers and detailed measurements of 46 populations ten Achillea species ( A. aleppica, bibersteinii, eriophora, filipendula, millefolium, nobilis, pachycephala, tenuifolia, vermicularis, wilhelmsii ) were reported from Iran. Sample plants seeds collected diff erent geographical regions Total length, long/ short arm ratio, centromere index, total fo...

BACKGROUND Achillea kellalensis, which is frequently used by Chaharmahal va Bakhtiarians residing in, Southwest of Iran, as a traditional herbal medicine for the treatment of acute diarrhea, has been selected to examine its antiviral activities against bovine rotavirus and cell toxicity activity in MA-104 cells. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxic and anti-...

A simplified identification key described by Deak and Beuchat (T. Deak and L. R. Beuchat, J. Food Prot. 50:243-264, 1987) and the computer method of Barnett et al. (J. A. Barnett, R. W. Payne, and D. Yarrow, Yeast Identification Program, 1985) were used to identify 12 reference strains and 382 yeasts isolated from cultured milk products. Because the simplified key failed to account for species ...