Anhoplocampa is redescribed based on new material. Anhoplocampa bicoloricornissp. n. from China is described. Anhoplocampa yunanensis (Haris & Roller, 1999), comb. n. is transferred from Trichiocampus. A key to species of Anhoplocampa is provided. The differences between Anhoplocampa and Trichiocampus Hartig, 1837, Priophorus Dahlbom, 1835, Hoplocampa Hartig, 1837 and Renonerva Wei & Nie, 1998 ...

Aim. 5S ribosomal DNA (5S rDNA) represents a universal model for studying the evolution of repeated sequences in eukaryotic organisms. Taking into account that this region genome still remains almost undescribed species family Sapindaceae, we investigated molecular organization unit rDNA member family, Litchi chinensis. Methods. PCR amplification, cloning and sequencing rDNA. Results. It was fo...

Using RecA as the phylogenetic marker, the relationships of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum and the green non-sulfur bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus to other eubacteria were investigated. The recA genes of the two organisms were cloned, and the resulting protein sequences aligned with 86 other eubacterial RecA sequences. Cb. tepidum was placed as the nearest relative to the Cyt...

The antiviral activity of Callissia fragrans and Simnondsia chinensis aquatic and ethanol leaf extracts, as well as purified fractions from these extracts was studied against herpetic viruses in vitro. Ethanol extract of C. fragrans effectively inhibited the infection of Vero cells by HSV-1, HSV-2 in vitro, while its aquatic extract inhibited only VZV. Although S. chinensis leaf extract strongl...

Wedelia chinensis is a small much branched annual herb, commonly known as “pilabhamgara” or “bhringraj” in Hindi. Wedelia in Chinese, “pitabhrnga” in Sanskrit [1]. The fresh juice from the leaves of Wedelia chinensis has been used by ayurvedic physicians in India for external use to treat skin problems, dermatitis, eczema and acne [2]. The leaves are regarded as tonic and alternative, useful in...

Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. grows mainly in the northeast China and its mature fruits are famous traditional Chinese medicine recorded in “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”. As a traditional medicinal herb, S. chinensis has been used as an astringent curing dry cough, asthma, night sweats, nocturnal seminal emissions and chronic diarrhea [1,2]. Modern medical research had proved that S. chinensis...

The objective of this experiment was to optimize the post-harvest handling techniques for four Ixora genotypes grown loose flower purpose. laid out in Factorial Completely Randomised Design (FCRD) with namely viz., Red (Ixora casei-G1), Pink (I. chinensis-G2), Orange coccinea-G3) and Yellow chinensis-G4) six treatments replicated three times. Observations were made on floral quality criteria as...

Six rotenoids have isolated from Indigofera tinctoria, characterized by means of their spectral data and/or co-tlc. The total estimation studies revealed that rotenol was major rotenoid in both in vivo and in vitro. Similarly, by elicitation studies, we observed that summatrol synthesis was higher at the concentration of 0.01 mM ergosterol and salicylic acid. Among all sequential fractions, met...