Cultivation conditions may greatly affect fruit quality, especially in the accumulation of functional metabolites. Blackcurrant fruits (Ribes nigrum L.) have high ascorbic acid (AsA) concentrations. The purpose current study was to investigate influence different shading treatments (full sunlight, and 40% 60% sunlight) on fruits’ maturity, levels firmness, soluble solid, AsA, enzyme activity in...

The genus Ribes (Grossulariaceae) is widespread across the northern hemisphere, but also species-rich in tropical Andes. In Peruvian Andes mostly found at least seasonally moist cloud and scrub forests, subparamo habitats hedges. However, some taxa are from more extreme semi-arid of western slope (Andean scrub, ovalifolium) respectively high Andean puna paramo elevations up to 5100 m asl (Ribes...

The aim of this research was to study the relationships between presence of plant species and environmental factors in Garizat rangelands of Yazd province and providing their predictive habitat models. After delimitation of the study area, sampling was performed using randomized-systematic method. Accordingly, vegetation data including presence and cover percentage were determined in each quadr...

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Diabetes mellitus has been treated orally with herbal remedies based on folk medicine since ancient times. Embelia ribes burm (Myrsinaceae), known commonly as vidanga, was used in Ayurveda for its anthelmintic activity. Ayurveda describes vidanga as pungent, causes increase in digestive fire, and cures flatulence and colic. A single study reported the antihyperglycemic activity of decoction of ...

OBJECTIVE The present study was carried out to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of the aqueous extract of Embelia ribes, in focal ischemic brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS Adult male Wistar albino rats were fed with the aqueous extract of Embelia ribes (100 and 200 mg/kg, p.o.) for 30 days. After 30 days of feeding, all the animals were anaesthetized with chloral hydrate (400 mg/kg, i.p.). The...