Many plants used in Saurashtra folk medicine have been reported to exhibit high antibacterial and antioxidant activities. In the present study, some parts of five plants, Guazuma ulmifolia L., Manilkara zapota L., Melia azedarach L., Syzygium cumini L. and Wrightia tomentosa R.& S., were evaluated for their antibacterial activity, total phenol content, flavonoid content, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhy...

Background & Aim: Aphids are of serious pests and vectors of multitude of viral diseases of field crops, vegetables, ‎and greenhouse crops. They have displayed a remarkable ability to establish resistance to ‎almost every insecticide with which it has been treated. To reduce the damage of these pests ‎and dependence on the sometimes unwise use of synthetic pesticides in crop and vegetable ‎plan...

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The aim of this study was to carry out a survey of the flora with potential for beekeeping in the counties of Ubiratã and Nova Aurora-PR through the collection of plants and pollen analyses in honey samples collected monthly. 208 species of plants were recorded, distributed in 66 families. The families that showed the major richness of pollen types were: Asteraceae, Myrtaceae and Solanaceae. Ap...

O fungo Penicillium sp foi isolado do córtex das raízes de Melia azedarach após a esterilização da superfície de seus tecidos e foi cultivado durante três semanas sobre arroz previamente esterilizado. Um novo meroterpeno, denominado austinoneol, e os meroterpenos já conhecidos 7-β-acetoxi-dehidroaustina, neoaustina e de-hidroaustina foram isolados do extrato metanólico desta cultura. Suas estru...

Abstract Melia L. is a small genus of only 2–3 species, which native to Indo-Malesia, India, Pakistan and southern parts tropical Africa. Fossil records are known from the early Miocene Pleistocene. Here we describe some mummified fossil endocarps upper part Yongning Formation (late Oligocene) in Nanning Basin, South China. These well-preserved stony 8–14 mm long 5–9 wide, have 5 locules with s...