Two kinds of algal beads were prepared using a carrageenan-based alga (Chrondrus crispus) and an alginate-based alga (Laminara digitata) ionotropically gelled with K(I) and Ca(II), respectively: the process consists of biopolymer partial extraction followed by hydrogel formation. The beads were modified with branched polyethylenimine (bPEI) and glutaraldehyde (GA) using the impregnation method ...

Stress proteins biosynthesis, DNA and RNA content, electron microscopy of leaf cells from plants with different types of ecological strategies have been studied. Brassica campestris var.olifera and Amaranthus caudathus L. were selected as ruderals. Rumex patienta L. x Rumex tianshanicus A.Los. was selected as stress-tolerant. Biosynthesis of stress proteins, DNA and RNA content, the ultra struc...

PURPOSE: A small-scale study was conducted to evaluate fluridone (1-methyl-3-phenyl-5-[3trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4(1H)-pyridinone) efficacy under varying levels of turbidity when controlling curlyleaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus L.). There is no information on the effect of turbidity on fluridone efficacy against curlyleaf pondweed. It is unknown if turbidity impacts aqueous fluridone concentr...

Cancer is a major cause of death worldwide, as exemplified by millions cancer diagnoses every year. The use chemotherapy in treating has many disadvantages which include recurrence cancer, associated with drug resistance, and severe side effects that are harmful to the patients. A better source anticancer drugs can come from nature. Strobilanthes crispus (S. crispus) herbal medicinal plant indi...

Rumex vesicarius L .commonly known as” Bladder dock or Chukkakura” is a renowned medicinal plant, which belongs to the family polygonaceae.It posses anti inflammatory, antimicrobial, analgesic, antiviral, antioxidant, cordial and stomachache properties. An attempt has been made to study clonal propagation of this important medicinal plant from nodal segments as explants. These explants were ino...

In this paper, we analyze a satellite-DNA family, the RAYSI family, which is specific of the Y chromosomes of Rumex acetosa, a dioecious plant species with a multiple sex-chromosome system in which the females are XX and the males are XY(1)Y(2). Here, we demonstrate that this satellite DNA is common to other relatives of R. acetosa, including Rumex papillaris, Rumex intermedius, Rumex thyrsoide...

The effects that ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 280 to 400 nm) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400 to 700 nm) had on early life stages of Mastocarpus stellatus and Chondrus crispus were studied to determine if differences in UVR tolerance could influence their recruitment success on the upper eulittoral shores of Helgoland (North Sea). Photosynthesis, germination capacity, DNA damage...