Ongoing efforts in metabolic profiling of both cultivated and wild plants continue to identify new plant compounds, many of them unique to a single species or found only in closely related species. Such compounds are defined as specialized, or secondary, metabolites and they play many physiological and ecological roles, including in plant-insect and plant-pathogen interactions. To date, only a ...

Sir,?At page 191 of Valentine Baker's Clouds in the East, he mentions, that when suffering from dysentery, near Meshed, he got from an official, Abbas Khan, a remedy "called in Persia barhangIt consisted of a small seed somewhat resembling linse ed, and was made into a tea like linseed tea, with the addition of a teaspoonful of oil of sweet almonds." "Diet was restricted to rice and a wash of s...

the autotetraploidy was achieved in basil using tip meristem treatment of seedlings with various concentrations of colchicine solution (0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 0.75% (w/v) ph = 6). a significant increase in the essential oil content was observed in tetraploids as they carry the potential of productivity of 69 % more oil over the diploids. a field experiment was conducted to investigate the e...

a randomized complete block design with four replications and a split plot arrangement was conducted in 2010, in order to study the effect of limited irrigation on yield and yield component of sweet corn. water levels were (100%, 80%, and 60% replacement of plant water requirement) which served as main plots. subplot was a factorial arrangement of three different sweet corn varieties (merit, ob...