Fusarium spp. cause significant plant diseases and are responsible for food contamination with mycotoxins. Sustainable crop protection relies on a combination of different measures; among others, plants contain bioactive compounds providing antifungal antimicrobial properties. Coriander seed extracts have composition rich in fatty acids, sterols, essential oils, polyphenols etc. Therefore, this...

Apiaceae is a major family from Apiales and includes many important vegetable medicinal crops. Heat shock transcription factors (Hsf) play roles in heat tolerance during plant development. Here, we conducted systematic analyses of the Hsf gene three species, including 17 Apium graveolens (celery), 32 Coriandrum sativum (coriander), 14 Daucus carota (carrot). A total 73 genes were identified rep...

Coriander oil is a vegetable extracted from coriander seed that has about 70% of petroselinic acid, apart anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties, thus gaining the status new food ingredient. Due to its properties added value, it can become target adulteration as occurs with other edible oils high market value. Therefore, objective this work was identify authenticity commercial such palm ol...

Background: Coriandrum sativum L. has been recommended for relief of insomnia in Iranian traditional medicine. However, no pharmacological studies have yet evaluated its sedative effects. The aim of this study was to determine if extracts and essential oil of coriander seeds have sedative-hypnotic activity. Methods: The aqueous or hydro-alcoholic extracts or essential oil of coriander seeds (10...

Western scientists and development officials are often discomfited by the fact that farmers in the developing world rarely behave like the independent actors of neoclassical economics. Instead, farmers appear to be enmeshed in a social fabric, and their decisions often seem unduly guided by social factors such as customs, obligations, and beliefs. It is not surprising that many outsiders regard...

When, in turn-of-the-20 th -century America, Alfred L. Kroeber continued the work of Franz Boas, in establishing anthropology as an academic discipline in the US, he defined culture as a phenomenon sui generis. For this he asked geneticists to enter into a coalition against hereditarian thoughts prevalent at that time in the US. To goal was to make room for anthropology as part of academia and ...