Capsicum annum L. (Family: Solanaceae) and Hemidesmus indicus (Linn.) R.Br. (Family: Asclepiadaceae) are commonly used in Tamilnadufor treating various ailments in the native system of medicine. The hydroalcoholic extracts of both plants at dose level of 100 mg/kg body weight showed demonstrable anti-inflammatory activity in the carrageenan-induced hind paw model in rats. Nevertheless, the over...

Entire phenolic and flavonoid content are the basis for evolution of the preventive role of plant material as compensating factor to oxidative damage caused by free radicals which is a critical etiological aspect responsible for several chronic human ailments, the maximum content of phenol was found in Capsicum annum and the richest source of flavonoid in Lactuca sativa. However the highest fla...

Dentre as hortaliças de destaque está o gênero Capsicum pertencente à família Solanaceae, que envolve pimentas (Capsicum spp.) e os pimentões annum). Os frutos C. chinense são caracterizados por uma grande diversidade, em termos cores, formatos pungência, podem ser suaves até extremamente pungentes. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar desenvolvimento plântulas variedades spp. cultivadas diferent...

Cytological characters and protein profile of 5 species (Solanum melongena, S. xanthocarpum, Datura alba,Lycopersiconesculentum and Capsicum annum) of family Solanaceae were investigated through poly acrylamide gel electrophoresis and using cytological characters viz. mitotic index and pollen viability. The present protein profile revealed that experimental genusLycopersicon is very close to th...