Rhubarb is often used to establish chronic diarrhea and spleen (Pi)-deficiency syndrome animal models in China. In this study, we utilized the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR) method to detect changes in bacterial diversity in feces and the bowel mucosa associated with this model. Total microbial genomic DNA from the small bowel (duodenum, jej...

Introduction Herbal medicine has been recognized as one of useful treatments for chronic liver diseases. Inchinko-to (TJ135) consists of Artemisia Capillaris Spike, Gardenia Fruit and Rhubarb Rhizome. Artemisia Capillaris Spike and Gardenia Fruit promote bile secretion [1,2]. Rhubarb Rhizome is used for constipation. Rhubarb Rhizome contains anthraquinone derivatives, such as aloe emodin and em...

Background Bolting is regarded as the initiation of reproduction stage in the growth and development of an Arabidopsis plant, when a set of floral integrator genes activate the expression of floral meristem identity genes LFY and AP1 to initiate flowering transition[1,2]. However, how the expression of key genes, such as AP1, responds of diverse signals during flower development remains largely...

effect of automobile pollution on the productivity of crocus sativus was studied for one year time period (october 2005-april 2006). the parameters which were analyzed viz total chlorophyll, carotenoids, leaf area, plant height, corm size, corm weight, corm yield, biomass, flower production, and length of stigma and style, showed a remarkable decrease as compared to control. total chlorophyll ,...

Objective: To observe synergistic antibacterial effect of Er yanning in vitro. Methods: The Er Yanning NO1 (the main component of rheum officinale), No2 (main component of Scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron bark) and Er yanning NO1-NO2 compatibility antibacterial activity were detected against anaerobic bacteria and aerobic bacteria. Results: No 1 anaerobic obviously, No 2 on aerobic bacter...

Both earthworms and symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) often co-occurr in ecosystems, however very little is known on their interrelationships. Here we tested to what extent earthworms (Annelida) or AMF (Glomales) separately or in combination affect the growth of the pharmaceutical plant species, pot marigold (Calendula officinalis, Asteraceae). We conducted a greenhouse experiment us...

Insects pinpoint mates, food and oviposition sites by olfactory cues. Recognizing and localizing a suitable target by olfaction is demanding. Odor sources emit characteristic blends of compounds that have to be identified against an environmentally derived olfactory background. This background, however, does not necessarily disturb the localization of a source. Rather, the contrary. Sex pheromo...

We present the plant classification system submitted by the QUT RV team to the LifeCLEF 2015 plant task. Our system learns a content specific feature for various plant parts such as branch, leaf, fruit, flower and stem. These features are learned using a deep convolutional neural network. Experiments on the LifeCLEF 2015 plant dataset show that the proposed method achieves good performance with...

The timing of crucial events in plant life cycles is shifting in response to climate change. We use phenology records from PlantWatch Canada 'Citizen Science' networks to study recent rapid shifts of flowering phenology and its relationship with climate. The average first flower bloom day of 19 Canadian plant species has advanced by about 9 days during 2001-2012. 73% of the rapid and unpreceden...

Origanum onites and Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum were collected from Balikesir, on the north west of Turkey. The nitrogen contents in organs such as root, stem, leaf and flower of Origanum onites and Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum taxa in vegetative and generative growth stages were investigated. Nitrogen analyses of soil and plant samples were carried out according to the Kjeldahl method. It was...