Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gaseous mediator, which is generated via anenzymatic reaction of heme oxygenase, and it plays physiological roles in regulating cellular respiration and blood flow in the liver. The concentration and distribution of CO molecules in the living body is unknown owing to a lack of a suitable technique for measuring them in vivo. A needle-type CO sensor has been used for bi...

Plant-fungal associations have been explored by routine cultivation based approaches and cultivation based approaches cannot catalogue more than 5% of fungal diversity associated with any niche. In the present study, an attempt has been made to catalogue fungal diversity associated with belowground parts i.e. rhizosphere and cormosphere, of Crocus sativus (an economically important herb) during...

Banana (Musa spp.) is the most important fruit crop of world. The production banana propagules for different scales its cultivation by local farmers still an researchable issue as micropropagation only available source plantlets production. An experiment on macro-propagation belonging to three genomic groups (AAA, AAB, ABB) was conducted at Department Plant Physiology, BCKV Mohanpur, West Benga...

Natural products are the best sources of drugs and drug leads this remains true today although fact that many pharmaceutical companies have focused on natural research for two decades. Colocasia esculenta (L) Schott (C. esculenta, Family Araceae) is an annual herbaceous plant with a long history usage in traditional medicine several countries across world grown its edible corm as staple foods t...

Clonality is often implicated in models of the evolution of dioecy, but few studies have explicitly compared clonal structure between plant sexual systems, or between the sexes in dioecious populations. Here, we exploit the occurrence of monoecy and dioecy in clonal Sagittaria latifola (Alismataceae) to evaluate two main hypotheses: (i) clone sizes are smaller in monoecious than dioecious popul...

abstract colchicum kotschyi boiss (colchicaceae) is one of the sixteen iranian native colchicum species, containing considerable amount of colchicine. to study the effect of different nutrient levels on corm yield and colchicine content of colchicum kotschyi boiss under open field soilless culture, an experiment was performed in a randomized complete design at the horticultural research station...