background & aim: dracocephalum genus belongs to the lamiaceae family which has eight species in iran. dracocephalum kotschyi boiss is an important medicinal and aromatic plant that use in pharmaceutical industry. in addition, this species is used in iranian traditional medicine. the aim of current study was to examine the various growth regulations and explants on direct organogenesis of d...

Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. has been used as part of an ethnobotanical remedy against many forms of human cancer in Iran. It has been demonstrated that a flavonoid named xanthomicrol from D. kotschyi contributes to its preferential antiproliferative activity against malignant cells. In the present study, the antiproliferative activity of its flavonoid fraction was further characterized. Using...

BACKGROUND Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss is a herb with wide-spread applications. Lorestan traditional healers have applied it for the treatment of rheumatoid diseases and stomach disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS Hydrodistillation process was used for essential oil extraction, the extracted essential oil was then analyzed through combination of capillary GC-FID, GC-MS and RI. The in vitro anti...

Background and objectives: Dracocephalum kotschyi is a plant which belongs to the Lamiaceae family and exists mostly in south-west Asian countries, including Iran. This plant is used as antispasmodic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory to treat rheumatoid diseases. Methods: In order to investigate the impact of the harvesting time changes on the quantity and quality of monoand sesquiterpenoid comp...

Leaf gas exchange characteristics of a desert annual (Triticum kotschyi [Boiss.] Bowden) and the wheat cultivar TAM W-101 (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell) were compared over a range of leaf water potentials from -0.50 to -2.9 megapascals. At an ambient [CO(2)] of 330 microliters per liter, T. kotschyi had higher conductance and CO(2) assimilation (A) at a given water potential than T. aestivum. ...