Ficcus racemosa is a moderate sized avenue tree found throughout India. It is popular in indigenious system of medicine like ayurveda, siddha, unani and homoeopathy. In the traditional system of medicine various plant parts such as bark, root, leaves, fruits and latex are used in dysentry, diarrohoea, diabeties, stomachache, piles and as carminative and astringent and also as antioxidant and an...

Methods Sequences of elongation factor alpha (EFA), beta tubulin (BTUB) and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions were obtained from 54 collections of D. caperata collected from Caribbean and Pacific L. racemosa forests in Central America. Measures of haplotype and nucleotide diversity, nested clade analyses and coalescent analyses were used to estimate the direction and e...

Two distinct patterns of cytoplasmic streaming in the leaf of Caulerpa prolifera are described. Broad, longitudinally running, two-way streams are restricted to the endoplasm of one leaf surface. Also present are large numbers of narrow, two-way streams that coil helically throughout the endoplasm surrounding the central vacuole. Numerous unique bundles of aggregated, evenly spaced, oriented mi...

1 Faculty of Applied Sciences, UCSI University, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2 Secretariat, International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems, c/o Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0129, Japan. 3 Centre for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-0053, Japan. 4 School of Science, Monash Uni...

Codonoboea personatiflora Kiew & Y.Y.Sam, sp. nov., is described from lowland forest in the foothills in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. It is unique in the genus in its personate flower. Its conservation status falls within the IUCN Endangered category.

Chemical analysis of the secondary metabolite pattern of the sacoglossan mollusc Elysia cf. expansa, collected along South Indian coasts, showed the presence of the typical Caulerpa-derived sesquiterpene caulerpenyne (1) and two new minor co- occurring metabolites, the compounds dihydrocaulerpenyne (4) and expansinol (5). The chemical characterization of these molecules, structurally related to...