background & aim: marigold or calendula officinalis l. is a annual herb belongs to the asteraceae family.  marigold is a valuable medicinal plant which is used in pharmaceutical industry.  in addition, this plant is cultivated as an ornamental plant. aim of current study was to evaluate the effect of different concentrations of jasmonic acid (ja), and salicylic acid (sa) on phytochemical pr...

a pot experiment was carried out to determine the effect of foliage spraying of silicon (si) on growth and ornamental characteristics of calendula grown under salt stress and greenhouse conditions. a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design was conducted with 3 levels of si (0, 50 and 100 mg/l) and 3 levels of nacl (0, 100 and 200 mm) with 4 replications. at flowering stage, s...

three major flavonoid fractions were separated from a methanol extract of calendula officinalis flowers by preparative tlc. these fractions were evaluated for the inhibition of parent and tamoxifen resistant t47d human breast cancer cells. we also examined the effect of quercetin and isorhamnetin on the growth of parent and resistant t47d cells in the presence and absence of tamoxifen. it was f...

effect of gibberellic acid on marigold (calendula officinalis l.) was evaluated in a pot culture experiment. a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design including 12 treatments and four replications was carried out. main factor was foliar application stages (first, second and third) and sub factor included different concentrations of ga3 (0, 50, 150 and 250 mg l-1). results sho...

calendula officinalis (family compositae) flowers are recognized as safe substance for food use by food and drug administration. present study was aimed to determine the modulatory effect of floral extracts of c. officinalis administrations on mean blood glucose (mbg), per cent glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c), lipid profile [(total cholesterol (tc), triglycerides (tg), low and high density lipo...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0782 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Medicaments containing various botanical extracts (e.g. tea tree oil, aloe, calendula, Echinacea, propolis) with purported therapeutic benefits are used widely by patients, who often prefer alternative medicine to traditional topical and systemic pharmacological treatments. ...