Background and objectives: The main aims of this study have been finding out the antibacterial activity and preliminary phytochemical screening of some fern species. Methods: The antimicrobial activity of the methanol extracts of Polypodium interjectum Shivas, Polystichum woronowii Fomin, Polystichum aculeatum (L.) Roth., Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk...

Mechanisms of uptake of rare earth elements (REEs) were investigated, particularly those by REE accumulator species (autumn fern). Rare earth elements are practically insoluble under natural conditions, suggesting some unknown mechanism in REE accumulator species. In the present investigation, two notable phenomena were observed. (I) Concerning the ionic-radius dependence of REE uptake by leave...

The RNA base analogues, 5-fluorouracil, 2-thiouracil, and 8-azaguanine, inhibit the growth of Dryopteris borreri, but do not prevent the transition from filamentous to biplanar growth. Transition, which occurs only when the filament has developed to 4 or 5 cells, may be considerably delayed, due to inhibition of filamentous growth, but it always occurs when the critical cell number of the filam...