Salvia L. has a wide variety of traditional usages as digestive, appetizer, carminative, antiseptic, stimulant, pain reliever, antipyretic, diuretic, antitussive and for bronchitis, asthma cold. Anatomical features are extremely important the taxonomy species, especially leaf stem represent many specific characteristics. The aim this study is to determine distinctive anatomical structures S. au...

background & aim:dorema   ammoniacum d. don. (ammoniac plant) belongs to   apiaceae family and dorema genus. it is one of the most important   endemic medicinal plants in its family which grows in the arid and semi-arid   areas in the regions of iran and some of the asian countries such as   turkmenistan, afghanistan, pakistan and india. this study was carried out   with aim of the extraction a...

the species of larinus spp. feed on developing achiness of flowerhead of plants in the family asteraceae and cause decrease in seed production of these plants. in this study, the life cycle parameters of the weevil larinus affinis fremuth on echinops aucheri boisswere studied in kerman under natural conditions during 2010 and 2011. this weevil overwintered as adults under ground litter. the fem...

stemflow is a part of precipitation which enters in to the soil through stem and branches. in this paper, we studied the stem flow features of anabasis aphylla as a bush and pteropyrum aucheri as a shrub in northwest of isfahan. stemflow production mechanism as well as the effects of canopy cover on this system was investigated during precipitation seasons in 2013 and 2014. a rain simulator was...

Background and objectives: Dorema ammoniacum D. Don (Apiaceae) is a monocarpic plant endemic to central Iran. The gum resin of this species is a known therapeutic agent in Iranian, Indian and Western traditional medicines. The aim of the present study was to investigate essential oil constituents and evaluation of antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the essential oils and extracts of D....

Some Dorema species are used in Persian traditional medicine. In the present study the total extract from the roots of Dorema hyrcanum Koso-Pol. was investigated for its in vitro (pLDH assay) and in vivo (Peters’ 4-days suppressive test) antiplasmodial effects and assessed for cytotoxicity against the normal cell line MDBK (MTT test). The IC50 values for a chloroquine- sensitive (3D7) and a chl...