A study was undertaken to evaluate effectiveness of foliar spray with 33 plant extracts against leaf spot (Tikka) of groundnut caused by Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum. Bavistin and BAU-Biofungicide were included in the experiment as checks and spray of plain water represented control. Almost all treatments gave considerable reduction in disease incidence and increase in ...

The attention of the profession in this country, was not, I believe, particularly called to the medicinal properties of the Stramonium till Dr Marcet, in an interesting paper, read before the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, in June 1816, and published in their Transactions *, detailed the ^results of his experience of its use. Storck, it is true, so early as 1762, in a pamphlet publi...

In the tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plant, the fruit juice was found to be the richest source of agglutinating activity. The lectin responsible could be inhibited by oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine, and this property was exploited to purify the lectin by affinity adsorption on trypsin-treated erythrocytes. The lectin is a glycoprotein that cross-reacts immunologically with the lectin from ...

Phytochemical screening of various fractions of Datura alba showed bioactive secondary metabolites based on microbial and antioxidant activities. n-Hexane fraction showed a significant activity against three selected bacterial strains; Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus while other isolated fraction showed moderate activity. The ethyl acetate (88.89 %) and methan...

pattern by making it difficult to delimit sectors clearly. Although the data at hand precluded the possibility of making rigorous comparisons between plants arising from seed subjected to thermal neutrons and plants from x-irradiated seed, no developmental or morphological disturbances or lethality patterns in Datura unique to either kind of treatment were detected. Caldecott, Frolik, and Morri...

Twenty-four yeast strains were isolated from ephemeral flowers of Ipomoea spp. and Datura sp. and their associated insects in the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador, and from Ipomoea spp. and associated insects in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. Sequences of the D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene indicated that these strains belong to a novel yeast species of the Kodamaea clade, although...

A 12 year old boy presented with an acute onset of anisocoria and blurred vision. Ocular motility was normal but his right pupil was dilated, round but sluggishly reactive to light. There was no history of trauma, eye drops' instillation, nebulised drugs or local ointments. His past medical history was negative.A third nerve palsy was considered but the performed cerebral MRI was normal.On furt...