The larval food plant of the Apochima diaphanaria ssp. rjabovi (Wehrli, 1936) in Geometridae family has not been known until now. In this study, medicinal plants Ferula haussknechtii H. Wolff ex Rech.f., Prangos uloptera DC. (Apiaceae) and Rheum ribes L. (Polygonaceae) species are identified for first time as rjabovi. addition, Drino imberbis (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera, Tachinidae) is recorded ...

Centella asiatica(L) commonly known as Asiatic pennywort which is having great medicinal history. It a small herbaceous plant belongs to the family Apiaceae family. used traditional ayurvedic medicine. The active metabolites like Alkaloids, flavonoids, Glycosides, Saponins, Phenolic compounds etc has wide range of pharmaceutical uses Memory enhancing, Treatment skin related diseases, Wound heal...

In this study, in order to explore the anti-melanogenic effect of PFE (Paederia foetida L. extract) and suggest its availability, B16F10 cells, which are murine melanoma were stimulated with alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) conduct an vitro experiment. Treatment cells activated melanogenesis due stimulants showed that significantly inhibits melanin content as well intracellular tyro...

Paederia foetida L. is widely used for the treatment of myriad ailments. Thus, searching plant parts having greater antioxidant potential would make it easy to get suitable materials herbal drugs. The present effort was made explore potentials in P. grown under natural conditions by means physiological and biochemical analyses. young leaves showed highest reservoir non-enzymatic antioxidants su...

Objective: The present study was conducted to find cytotoxic compounds from oleo-gum-resin of Ferula assa-foetida (asafoetida). Materials and Methods: A di...

Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Lso) is bacterium transmitted by psyllids to Solanaceae and Apiaceae plants. So far, Lso is found in Europe affecting Apiaceae. In the Mediterranean region, Bactericera trigonica is the only known vector of Lso, but the leek-onion psyllid Bactericera tremblayi is another widespread psyllid and potential vector of Lso. Commonly, carrot, leek and potato are c...

Despite the increasing sales of black cohosh (the dried rhizome and root of Cimicifuga racemosa L.) in the world herbal market, these products have continuous adulteration issues. The botanical authenticity of the black cohosh products is the first important step for ensuring their quality, safety and efficacy. In this study, we genetically identified the botanical sources of 10 black cohosh pr...

We studied the phylogeny of 22 accessions of Daucus and seven accessions in related genera, with DNA sequences from eight nuclear orthologs and one plastid (psbA/trnH) region. Maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of the concatenated data matrix of 7,212 aligned nucleotides provided excellent bootstrap support for many clades. Concordant with prior molecular results Pseudorlaya pumi...