IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences-Melbourne, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, Carlton, Victoria 3010, Australia (D.P.O., M.T.D., J.W.); IBM Research-Australia, Carlton, Victoria 3010, Australia (D.P.O., M.T.D., J.W.); Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Botany (M.S.D., A.B.) and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Insti...

Ueli Grossniklaus, d,e and David Twell a,1 a Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom b Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-16502 Praha 6, Czech Republic c Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, United Kingdom d Institute of Plant Biology and Zür...

Iran has a great wealth of various naturally occurring medicinal plants which have great potentialpharmacological activities. Ziziphus vulgaris known as Jujube is one of these plants. For a longtime Z. vulgaris has been used in alternative medicine as anti-hyperglycemic, anti-hyperlipidemiaand anti- hypertension. Z. vulgaris has recently been shown to have antibacterial, antioxidant,anti-hyperg...

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose threats to conservation and public health. Here, we apply the definition of EIDs used in the medical and veterinary fields to botany and highlight a series of emerging plant diseases. We include EIDs of cultivated and wild plants, some of which are of significant conservation concern. The underlying cause of most plant EIDs is the anthropogenic introduct...

Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa, Environmental Resource Management Department (ERMD), Westlake Conservation Office, City of Cape Town, Ou Kaapse Weg, Tokai 7966, Cape Town, South Africa, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden, Stellenbosch Institute for A...

EDWARD A. D. MITCHELL†*, ALEXANDRE BUTTLER‡, PHILIPPE GROSVERNIER§, HÅKAN RYDIN¶, ANDY SIEGENTHALER† and JEAN-MICHEL GOBAT† †Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Émile Argand 11, CH-2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; ‡Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, UMR 6565 CNRS, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, Université de Franche-Comté, F-25030, Besançon...

The Economic Botany Data Collection Standard (EBDCS) has been successfully followed by ethnobotanists investigating plant uses in many parts of the world. However, we have encountered some cases in our study of traditional medicine where the standard seems incomplete and inaccurate when it is applied to plant uses of rural or indigenous societies in developing countries. We propose two categori...

This book offers a concise account of the nature of the plant kingdom. It is intended for use by students in a half-year or one-semester course in botany or plant biology. The chief aim of the book is to broaden the student's outlook and to acquaint him with the natural sciences. Laboratory instruction should be used to supplement the book; experiments are included, so arranged that they may be...

In continuation of our search for biologically active molecules from terrestrial sources, we have investigated the creeping perennial herb Phyla nodiyora (Linn) Greene (Verbenaceae) ("Lippia nodiyora (Linn.) Mich), which grows widely in India. The leaves of P. nodiyora were collected from Bhadrachalam forest in October 1998. The plant was identi"ed by Prof. M. Prabhakar, Plant Anatomy and Taxon...