Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) has recently become a potentially valuable and reliable tool for analyses of plant samples in forage-breeding programs. The success of NIRS is dependent on identification of appropriate and reliable selection criteria and development of reliable calibration. The objectives of this study were to develop and compare NIRS analysis equations for the in ...

Incidence of cancer is growing swiftly worldwide and sparse supply of anticancer drugs; unaffordable cost and its lethal effect have shown the way to adopt complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment and/or prevention of cancer. The isolation of anti-cancer alkaloids vinblastine, vincristine and podophyllotoxins during 1950s prompts research on anticancer agents from plant origins....

The occurrence of three species belonging to the small coenobia forming green algae Desmodesmus and Didymocystis is reported from northernmost part Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. During a monitoring between September 2011 October 2013 highest number cells bicellularis comasii were observed in August September, at end dry season. On other hand, third taxon, cf. inermis , was only sporadically Mar...