Backgrounds: The use of belalai gajah plants (Clinacanthus nutans (Burm.fil.) Lindau) is believed by the Chinese community to be able treat hypertension, so prove whether this power exists in do a diuretic activity test. Objective Study: determine presence potency plants. Methods: This test used male white rats Sprague Dawley strain with body weight 200-250 grams aged 2-2.5 months as many 35 wh...

Global temperature has been increased by 0.6 °C over the past century and is predicted to increase by 1.4–5.8 °C by the end of this century. It is unclear what impacts global warming will have on tallgrass species. In the present study, we examined leaf net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and leaf respiration rate in darkness (Rd) of Aster ericoides (L.) Nesom, Ambrosia psilostachya DC., Helianthus mo...

After logging, 17% of the stumps left in pondcypress (Taxodium distichum var. nutans) swamps produced sprouts that persisted for several years. Significantly more sprouts were present on stumps with diameters < 60 cm (perhaps left from younger trees) and shorter than 70 cm. Stumps in large openings and from trees cut in winter tended to have more sprouts than stumps left in thinned swamps and f...