to study the effect of some varying treatments including such environmental factors as temperature, moisture, and light as well as plant growth regulators on breaking dormancy of datura stramonium l. seeds, several experiments were conducted. seeds of datura stramonium l. possess full dormancy immediately following harvest. storing the seeds for 3 months (15 dec. 2005 to 15 march 2006) at room ...

the present study is a designed protocol for investigation of the analgesic effect of oral and intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of alcoholic datura stramonium (ds) seed extract as a rich source of alkaloid substances. male nmri rats were divided into control and treatment groups. the treatment rats received different doses of the ds seed extract, which was prepared from alcoholic smashed s...

The present paper was a part of Ph.D research work, conducted during the year 2014, in which 87 poisonous plants belonging to 54 genera, were collected, documented and preserved in the herbarium of Bannu, Department of Botany UST, Bannu Khyber Pakhtunkwa Pakistan. The plants were identified botanically, arranged alphabetically along with their Latin name, family name, common name, poisonous par...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to quantify the allelopathic potential of Datura stramonium (Jimson weed). Sorghum halepense (Johnsongrass) tolerance was assessed by germinating, seed and growing seedlings, dosing of photo-synthesis pigments, followed by treatment with D. stramonium extract tropane alkaloids. RESULTS Preliminary chemical analysis of the extracts showed the presence of alkaloids.T...