Phenolic compounds are industrial chemicals widely used in the manufacture of products. Most of them are generated artificially and are found in the wastewaters from chemical plants, exhaust gases from incinerators, the side stream smoke from cigarettes. They are easily adsorbed in humans, regardless of their form. High levels of phenols have been shown to have detrimental effects on animal hea...

one-year-old seedlings of olive cultivars, zard, roghani, koroneiki and manzanilla, were transplanted to different sets of pots each pot containing 2000g of sterilized sandy loam soil. the experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design of 32 treatments, each in five replications. treatments were comprised of: control, mere nematode, mere fungus, and fungus+nematode. pots were inocul...

Medicinal plants were shown to play a significant role in curing many diseases of ancient times. The plant kingdom is truly goldmine potential drug compounds. Several earlier reviews and research studies summarized that the products from natural sources have contributed significantly discovery drugs health benefits for people. Moreover, it believed are less deadly than synthetic medicines becau...

Aromatic plants contain natural antioxidant constituents such as phenolic compounds, which have attracted a great deal of public and scientific interest because of their health-promoting effects as antioxidants. Five plants, Filipendula ulmaria (meadow sweet), Crataegus monogyna (hawthorn), Polygonum aviculare (polygonum), Potentilla anserina (silverweed), and Pelargonium purpureum (little robi...