Phytoremediation is the technique based on the use of plants to remediate sites contaminated with organic and inorganic pollutants. This technology is rapidly growing as is helpful to growing industries. Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corm and the root vegetables. It has many names like Taro and Eddoe. It is a wide spread emergent aquatic plant, generally...

Dental caries was the most common disease in both adults and children. Streptococcus mutans is main bacteria causing plaque formation initiator of dental caries. Antibacterials derived from plants can be used to prevent formation. Taro (Colosia esculenta) has been traditional medicine. Antibacterial compounds have discovered C. esculenta leaves. This study aimed determine ability leaf ethanol e...

Anthelmintic resistance has become a serious world-wide problem and has affected ruminant productivity in many countries. Thus the search for alternative methods of worm control has been an important priority in many small ruminant industries. Manihot esculenta had been shown to reduce trichostrongyloid eggs in infected sheep fed with such fresh leaves for prolonged period of time. Thus, this s...

Root crop production in Papua New Guinea is reviewed. Crops considered are the major ones (Ipomoea batatas, Colocasia esculenta, Dioscorea aiata, D. escuienta, Xanthosoma sagitti!olium), other significant root crops (Manihot esculenta, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, Cyrtosperma chpmissonis., Alocasia macro"htza and Solanum tuberosum) and 27 minor crops. For the major and significant crops, aspect...

In central Europe, the hybridogenetic waterfrog Rana esculenta, a hybrid between Rana ridibunda and Rana lessonae, lives in sympatry with one of its parental species, the poolfrog Rana lessonae. As R. esculenta has to backcross constantly with R. lessonae in order to produce viable offspring, this coexistence is obligatory for R. esculenta. Since R. esculenta has a higher primary fitness than R...

Myrica esculenta belongs to the family Myricaceae is a sub-temperate evergreen tree found throughout the mid-Himalayas, starting from about 1,300 meters and going up to about 2,100 meters. The tree yields a drupaceous fruit which is one of the tastiest wild fruits of the sub-Himalayan region. It is medium to large woody, evergreen, dioecious tree, 12 to 15 meters high; trunk girth, 92.5 cm; the...

Leafy vegetables are an important source of essential components rural people diet in tropical Africa. This study aimed to characterize the free amino acids five leafy consumed Western Côte d 'Ivoire. The leaves Abelmoschus esculentus, Celosia argentea, Ipomea batatas, Manihot esculenta, and Myrianthus arboreus were collected at maturity from cultivated farmlands located Dabou (Abidjan District...

Symbiotic relations are present in the nature and can contribute to success of organisms involved. Endophytic fungi live within leaf tissues without causing any harm host plant, some them be a defense mechanism against attack by leaf-cutting ants. Ants genus Atta known as ants have an obligatory association with fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, cutting pieces leaves bringing back colony fung...

The European waterfrog, Rana esculenta, is a hemiclonal hybrid that must coexist with the parental species Rana lessonae in order to reproduce. It is not clear what allows the two morphologically, genetically, and ecologically similar forms to coexist, but differential success of the hybrid and its sexual host among environments suggests that these frogs may differ in their adaptive abilities, ...