BACKGROUND Mindium laevigatum (Vent.) Rech. F. plant grows in central part of Iran. And used by local people as medical plant. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vitro antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities of the methanolic extracts of aerial and flower parts of plant. MATERIALS AND METHODS The leaves and stem and flower of bark from M. laevigatum ...

There is a world wide interest in searching for the safe and effective novel antibacterial compounds of plant origin for the control of plant pathogenic bacteria which is responsible for the great impact on the growth and productivity of agriculture crops. In this study an attempt was made to determine the in vitro antibacterial activity of sequentially extracted different solvent (dichlorometh...

Efficacy of three different concentrations (5, 10 and 15 mg/ml) of dry flower powder of E. splendens and L. nepetaefolia was tested on the growth of aflatoxin-producing toxigenic strains of fungi A. flavus (NCBT 101) and A. parasiticus (NCBT 128) in Sabouraud dextrose agar medium (SDA). Maximum (75%) inhibition of growth of A. flavus was seen at 15 mg/ml concentration of E. splendens flower dry...

BACKGROUND The chemical compositions of the stem and leaf sheath of few-flower wild rice were analysed. In addition, their extracts were evaluated for diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical-scavenging activity, ferric-reducing antioxidant power and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitory activity, since these are important properties of sources of nutraceuticals or functional foods. ...

First.?A peculiar physiological effect that I met with first in 1862, has not, as far as I know, been observed or published. It occurred in the person of a medical officer, who had served in India about eighteen years. Always fond of gardening, he had purchased a new house ; and, with his usual energy, laid out his compound in the most tasteful manner, with green plots of grass and numerous flo...

Bees, like humans, can continue to see a surface from its color even when the scene's global illuminant changes (which is a phenomenon called color constancy). It is not known, however, whether they can also generate color-constant behavior in more natural complex scenes that are lit by multiple lights simultaneously, conditions in which most computational models of color constancy fail. To tes...

ZnO nanostructures were manipulated, via a low-temperature solution process, from pure nanorod arrays to complex nanostructures of microflowers on nanorod arrays with adjusted quantities of flowers. We proposed the mechanism of local dissolution-driven growth to rationally discuss the novel growth process. These nanostructures were used as photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells. Compared to ...

Greenhouse is a kind of agricultural building structure with glass or plastic roof, where the vegetables or flowers can grow well year round by controlling the inside climatic environment. Fig. 1 shows commercial multispan greenhouses in China. The closed environment of a greenhouse has its own unique requirements, compared with outdoor production. Pests and diseases, and extremes of heat and h...