The alkaloid fuyuziphine was isolated from the whole plant of Fumaria indica. It had inhibitive effect against spore germination of some plant pathogenic fungi (Collectotrichum sp., C. gloeosporioides, C. falcatum, Curvularia maculans, C. lunata, Erysiphe cichoracearum, Helminthosporium pennisetti, Oidium erysiphoides, Ustilago cynodontis, Alternaria chieranthi, A. melongenae, A. brassicicola a...

Article info: Received: 25 October 2012 Accepted: 21 December 2012 ABSTRACT A rapid and accurate TLC-densitometry method for qualitative and quantitative determination of protopine has been developed. The best separation was achieved using a mobile phase chloroform – ethyl acetate – methanol – ammonium hydroxide (80:80:40:0.05, v/v/v/v). The results obtained by this method (CV% 3.4) corresponde...

to evaluate the effect of crop rotation on spatial dynamic of fumaria vaillantti and polygonum aviculare a study was conducted at the three farms with different rotation in the astan ghods razavi filed that located at 10 kilometers southeast of mashhad, iran. the rotations were alfalfa- fallow- wheat, canola- fallow- wheat, and wheat- fallow- wheat. at the crosses of 7×7 m quadrangular grids ne...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued U.S.Patent No. 8,337,911 B2 which is entitled “Herbal formulation for the prevention and management of Type-2 Diabetes mellitus and vascular complications associated with diabetes”. This patent was assigned to SRM University, Kattankulathur, India contains claims for treatment of the vascular complications associated with type-2 diabetes mell...

Pseudaspidapion botanicumsp. n. from China is described and figured. Its host plant is Grewia biloba G. Don var. parviflora (Bunge) Hand.-Mazz (Malvaceae: Grewioideae). The genus Harpapion Voss, 1966 is recorded as new for China and Vietnam and two comb. n. are proposed: Harpapion vietnamense (Korotyaev, 1985) (from Aspidapion) and Harpapion coelebs (Korotyaev, 1987) (from Pseudaspidapion). A k...