Th e term “planta hortifuga“ refers to all cultivated plant species that have escaped from cultivation and grow spontaneously in diff erent natural, semi-natural or manmade habitats. List of “planta hortifuga” (Tab.1) consists of 120 taxa. Traits are given for each species: Raunkiaer’s life-form groups, taxonomic rank (family and species), geographical origin, use value, invaded habitat, invasi...

Calotropis procera is a wild species that drought-resistant and plays number of economic ecological uses. The important in soil fertility improvement, pollution control by monitoring sulphur dioxide emissions the air suitable indicator exhausted soil. This study was undertaken drylands South Eastern Kenyato evaluate species’ ecology ability to bioaccumulate heavy metalsThe objectives research w...

infectious diseases are responsible for thousands of worldwide early death .many commercial antibiotics have been used to control human's infectious diseases all over the world. calotropis procera linn a wild growing plant of asclepiadaecae family is known to possess multifarious medicinal properties. total 80 non repetitive clinical e. coli strains recovered during 7 month, and were screened f...

demographic toxicology is a common method for an investigation of the sub lethal effects of pesticides on natural enemies. the present study was conducted to evaluate the side effects of the extracts of calotropis procera (willd.) r. br. (asclepiadaceae), teucrium polium l. (labiatae), fumaria parviflora lam. (fumariaceae) and thymus vulgaris l. (labiatae) in comparison with three pesticides: h...

The benefits of mutualistic interactions are often highly context dependent. We studied the interaction between the milkweed aphid Aphis asclepiadis and a tending ant, Formica podzolica. Although this interaction is generally considered beneficial, variation in plant genotype may alter it from mutualistic to antagonistic. Here we link the shift in strength and relative benefit of the ant-aphid ...