piriformospora indica, a cultivable root colonizing endophytic fungus of sebacinales, promotes plant growth and confers resistance against biotic and abiotic stress. the fungus has also the ability to colonize the roots of many varieties of plant species. the goal of present study was to clarify the colonization ability of p.indica in artichoke roots and the respond of plant to water stress. re...

Two field experiments were carried out during the winter seasons of 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 at the Agricultural Experimental Station (at Abeis) Alexandria University, to investigate the response of globe artichoke plants cv. French, to the inoculation with Halex2 and Microbein biofertilizers under varying N levels (0, 45, 90 and 135 kg N fed -1 ). The results indicated that increasing N applied...

• sistema gastro intestinal: aumenta a secreção gástrica e sua acidez, laxativo; • rim: diurético, usado nas nefrites agudas e nas uremias (aumenta a excreção de amônia); • vasos sanguíneos: hemorróidas, varizes e reumatismo; • obesidade: auxiliar nos regimes de emagrecimento; • diabetes: hipoglicemiante, auxiliar nos regimes de emagrecimento; • combate a anemia, raquitismo; • diminuição do col...

Cynara scolymus is a pharmacologically important medicinal plant containing phenolic acids and flavonoids. Experimental studies indicate antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of C. scolymus but there have been no studies about therapeutic effects of liver diseases yet. In the present study, hepatocurative effects of C. scolymus leaf extract on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced oxidative st...

Artičoka (Cynara scolymus L.) je višegodišnja biljna vrsta koja zahvaljujući svojim prehrambenim ali i zdravstvenim značajkama postaje sve raširenija kultura na području primorske hrvatske otoka. Tijekom svog razvoja artičoka podložna napadu brojnih štetnika među kojima su gospodarski značajni nekoliko lisnih ušiju leptira. Lisne uši kao fiziološki štetnici sisanjem listova cvjetnih glavica pos...