We investigated the effects of sap of the common oleander Nerium indicum (Apocyanaceae) on male fertility and spermatogenesis in the oriental tobacco budworm Helicoverpa assulta. We found that continuous feeding of oleander sap during the larval period significantly affects fertility in males but not in females. This effect was also induced by direct injection of oleander sap into the hemocoel ...

An investigation has been made about the vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization in some medicinal plants Catharanthus roseus, C. pusillus, Wrightia tinctoria, Thevetia peruviana, Nerium indicum and Alstonia scholaris belongs to family Apocyanaceae were screened for the occurrence and association of VA mycorrhizal fungi. All the plants screened in the study harbored VA mycorrhizal f...

Cardiovascular diseases are increasingly becoming one of the leading diseases causing morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Ethnographic evidence suggests that these diseases are often first managed by indigenous and related herbs before patients are referred for allopathic forms of management. One such herb of interest is Nerium oleander. Therefore the crude ethanolic extracts of the dried leaves...

Air pollution is one of the most important problems threatening organic life and ecosystem throughout world. Among components air pollution, ones are heavy metals that can be toxic carcinogenic even at low concentrations nutrient elements harmful when high concentrations. Thus, monitoring metal in very plants widely used as biomonitor for this purpose. However, which organs more suitable determ...