Fast-growing pioneer tree species play a crucial role in triggering late successional development forests. Experimental evidence of the soil legacy effects pre-existing plants on performance is lacking. We explored soils conditioned by early herbs (Poa poophagorum Bor and Potentilla fragarioides L.) mid-successional shrubs (Rhododendron fortunei Lindl. Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour.) late-succe...

Potentilla fulgens (Rosaceae) root traditionally used as a folk remedy by local health practitioners of Khasi Hills, Meghalaya was investigated for its effects on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in alloxan-induced diabetic mice. Significant increase in levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and decrease in activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismu...

Purpose: The nomenclature of the wild strawberries inhabited in Sri Lanka is ambiguous. In Lanka, this species still named Duchesnea indica which needs a revision. Wild grow well natural habitats upcountry Lanka. Since commercial strawberry cultivations gain popularity upcountry, studies on essential for crop improvement and management.Research Method: present study, we conducted extensive fiel...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Intraspecific reproductive differentiation into sexual and apomictic cytotypes of differing ploidy is a common phenomenon. However, mechanisms enabling the maintenance of both reproductive modes and integrity of cytotypes in sympatry are as yet poorly understood. This study examined the association of sexual and apomictic seed formation with ploidy as well as gene flow towar...

Immunomodulators are agents that are able to stimulate or inhibit the immune response. The leaf extracts from Potentilla indica and Dendrophthoe pentandra were analyzed in vitro for immunomodulatory activity and an MTT colorimetric assay was conducted to determine the proliferation of mice splenocytes and thymocytes. A bromodeoxyuridine assay was performed to analyze DNA synthesis and the Trypa...

The phylogenetic relationships of the most dominant and morphologically cryptic endophytic fungal isolates from each of five selected medicinal plants, namely Potentilla fulgens, Osbeckia stellata, Osbeckia chinensis, Camellia caduca, and Schima khasiana of the biodiversity rich state of Meghalaya, were assessed with random amplification of polymorphic DNA and PCR-restriction fragment length po...