background aloe vera l. is an important pharmaceutical plant from which several medicinal and cosmetic compounds are extracted. aloe is naturally propagated through offset, which is a slow and expensive labor cost method with low economical income. objectives in this study, the effect of different media on shoot proliferation of the shoot tip of aloe vera l. was investigated. materials and meth...

in countries having traditional medicine (tm), one of the main challenges for any researcher is research methodology. current methodologies are different with what was in past. the main purpose of this article is to present the steps (herbs, claims and methodology) of research in tm fields. 1. assessment of herbs history, method of study, quality assessment, efficacy, safety, toxicity and the...

in the first experiment, twelve species of the most plentiful and fresh seaweeds and one species of seagrass from the beach were collected at kingston, south australia. all species were then separately sun-and oven-dried and ground. the ground samples were analysed for dry matter, ash, organic matter, crude protein, crude fibers, ether extract and digestibility in vitro. the digestible and ...

background medicinal plants with natural antioxidants have been shown to be beneficial in a variety of complications such as anxiety. the elevated plus-maze (epm) is one of the most widely used models to assess anxiety in small rodents. objectives this study was designed to characterize the anxiolytic-like activity of borago officinalis (linnaeus, family boraginaceae) or borage flowers extract,...

salinity is one of the most brutal environmental stresses that hamper crop productivity worldwide approximately 10% of the total land surface is salt affected and about 10 million hectare of agricultural land is lost annually due to salinization and water logging. this study was conducted to determine the ion exchanges in halocnemum strobilaceum and halostachys caspica in saline conditions. the...

sunflower (helinathus annuus) is a susceptible host to the holoparasite hemp broomrape (orobanche ramosa) in central parts of iran, causing yield loss due to severe infestations. a field study was conducted in 2006 to evaluate the efficacy of glyphosate for controlling the parasitic weed hemp broomrape in sunflower. glyphosate was applied once or twice at five rates ranging from 0.075 to 0.450 ...

low phosphorous (p) availability in soils limits production of soybean [glycine max (l.) merr.] around the world. this study was conducted to determine whether exogenous expression of the rice (oryza sativa l.) phosphates transporter gene ospt2 would increase inorganic phosphates (pi) acquisition and improve yield in transgenic soybean. cotyledonary-node explants of the soybean were inoculated ...

background & aim: a herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens. herbarium specimens form an important recorded of what plants grew where over time. kerman province with area about 171993 km2 has a lat of difference vegetation because of climatic and topography variations. it has different elevation (above sea level) from 300 m in shahdad to 4420 m in hezar mountains. material &...

antioxidants have important preventive roles, not only on undesirable changes in the flavor and nutritional quality of food, but also on tissue damage in various human diseases. some of iranian plants, despite wide spread use of them as medicines in iran have been investigated for their beneficial use as an antioxidants or source of antioxidants. the present review deals with a list of such pla...