An AFLP data set comprising 95 accessions from 20 species of Lactuca s.l. (sensu lato) and related genera was generated using the primer combinations E35/M48 and E35/M49. In phenetic analyses of a data subset, clustering with UPGMA based on Jaccard's similarity coefficient resulted in the highest cophenetic correlation, and the results were comparable to those of a principal coordinates analysi...

Six woody legume tree species, Acacia ehrenbergiana (Hayne.), Acacia nilotica (Willd.), Acacia saligna (Labill.), Acacia tortilis (Forssk.), Acacia tortilis var. reddiana ( Savi.) and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) were performed the growth characteristics and to identify the resistance of native isolated Rhizobium strains from root zone surrounding trees to environmental stressesantibiotic, high...

Soil carbon accumulation is largely dependent on net primary productivity. To our knowledge, there have been no studies investigating the dynamics of carbon accumulation in weathered subtropical soils, especially in managed eucalyptus plantations. We quantified the seasonal input of leaf litter, the leaf decomposition rate and soil carbon stocks in an commercial plantation of Eucalyptus saligna...

Fabaceae (leguminous species) is the third-largest family of angiosperms. Floristical and vegetation analysis studies of wild leguminous species in Taif, Saudi Arabia were the prime aims of the current work. General survey of the studied area resulted to the selection of three different locations (Alshafa area (with its different habitats), Wadi seesed and Taif Hawia road (cutting many small wa...


 Purpose: The present study was done to evaluate the antimycobacterial activity of aqueous and methanol extracts nine plants viz., Buddleja saligna, Carpobrotus dimidiatus, Capparis tomentosa, Dichrostachys cinerea, Ekebergia capensis, Ficus sur, Gunnera perpensa, Leonotis leonurus Tetradenia riparia in South Africa.
 Methods: Aqueous leaves were tested vitro for their against Mycoba...

According to a common hypothesis, some of the epidermal structural features in leaves tracheid-bearing plants “offset” low specific conductivity vesselless wood. The data concerning this issue is contradictory, which can be explained by fact that leaf water relations depend not only on epidermis structure, but also structure other tissues. In current study we aimed evaluate diversity transp...