Purification of lectin from the seeds of Crotalaria medicaginea Lamk by affinity chromatography on asialofetuin-linked amino activated silica, yielded a single band on non-denatured PAGE at pH 4.5 and 8.3 and, a single peak on HPLC size exclusion and cation exchange columns. The molecular mass of the native C. medicaginea lectin was determined to be 125 kDa by gel filtration. In SDS-PAGE, the l...

The present paper provides an enumeration of leguminous taxa of Balaghat Ranges of Maharashtra along with their habits, phenological deta and voucher specimen numbers. During the present work, a total of 123 species, 4 subspecies and 17 varieties of Fabaceae have been recorded for Balaghat Ranges of Maharashtra, of which 119 taxa are occurring in wild while 25 are under cultivation. The members...