The antibacterial activity of essential oils extracted from medicinal plants (Ocimum gratissimum, L., Cybopogum citratus (DC) Stapf., and Salvia officinalis, L.) was assessed on bacterial strains derived from 100 urine samples. Samples were taken from subjects diagnosed with urinary tract infection living in the community. Microorganisms were plated on Müller Hinton agar. Plant extracts were ap...

Documented pollinator declines have encouraged the installation of plantings in residential, commercial and agricultural settings. Pollinator visitation among cultivars coreopsis, salvia asters was compared on 40 dates a 2-year study resulting 6,911 observations across all plant taxa with bees, butterflies syrphids well-represented. Diversity insect visitors represented differently within broad...

The coexpression of plant resistance traits suggests the hypothesis that they may have complementary functions in defense against herbivory. To address the extent to which defensive traits are necessarily coupled in plants grown under various conditions, we focused on latex and cardenolides, two potent defenses of milkweeds. We measured defenses across ontogenetic stages, different biotic and a...

The Pharmacological Properties of Salvia Essential OilsZhiming Fu, Hang Wang, Xiaofei Hu, Zhaolin Sun, Chunchao Han

Introduction Abstract: We investigated the extent of multiple paternity within and between fruits of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, at one site. Using isozyme polymorphisms at four loci and the maximum likelihood methods of Williams and Evarts (1989), we found no statistical evidence for multiple paternity within fruits. When pairs of fruits obtained from individual ramets were analyze...