OBJECTIVE Biebersteinia (Geraniaceae) has a history of use in traditional medicine in some countries including Iran. In the present study, cytotoxic and apoptogenic properties of hydro-ethanol extract of B. multifidi was investigated on human prostate cancer cell lines (PC3 and DU 145) and human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 medium...

THE FLORAS of Formosa and the Philippines are, in spite of the ir geographic proximity , distinctive in their general nature. The tw<? regions wereseparated by the Formosan rift (the Bashi Channel), probably in the early Tertiary, long' before their connections with other respective neighboring areas were severed. Thus the bulk of the Formosan flora was derived from China or from other floras t...

UNLABELLED Pelargonium L. genra (Fam. Geraniaceae) includes over 250 species, most of it native to southern Africa. Nowadays, four perennial species are cultivated in Romania as ornamental plants. Our aim was to establish the main characteristics and differences that occur between Pelargonium zonale, P. hispidum, P. grandiflorum, P. peltatum and P. radens. All in all, the quantitative differenc...

Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) is an important plant genus used in ornamental horticulture in temperate regions worldwide. As such, numerous hybrids have been developed. However, DNA sequence resources and genome information for Lagerstroemia are limited, hindering evolutionary inferences regarding interspecific relationships. We report the complete plastid genome of Lagerstroemia fauriei. To our...

The evaluation of 10 essential oils of geranium, Pelargonium graveolens (Geraniaceae), were all shown to have repellent activity against nymphs of the medically important lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.). The biological tests were carried out using a vertical filter paper bioassay, where ticks must cross an area of the paper treated with repellent to approach host stimuli. One of the e...

Sweet-scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens L'Hér), a plant belonging to the Geraniaceae family, has medicinal and aromatic properties and is widely used in the cosmetic, soap, perfume, aromatherapy, and food industries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of fertilization and the use of different colors of plastic mulch on sweet-scented geranium biomass and essential oil. Th...

Bu çalışma, Sarp Sınır Kapısı (Kemalpaşa, Hopa) Çevresi florasının tespit edilmesi amacıyla 2013-2014 yılları arasında yapılmıştır. Araştırma alanı, Davis’in grid sistemine göre A8 karesinde yer almakta olup, Holarktik bölgenin, Avrupa-Sibirya Fitocoğrafik alanının Karadeniz provensinin Kolşik kesiminde almaktadır. alanı deniz seviyesinden başlayıp 1513 m yükseltiye kadar çıkmaktadır. araştırma...