Over 80% of pregnant women in Western Uganda deliver at home with the assistance of mainly traditional birth attendants who use herbal remedies to complete the processes of child bearing in the rural communities. In Uganda, complications resulting from reproductive health related conditions such as maternal mortality and morbidity (20.4%) account for number one problem among the disease burden ...

R. Ordinola-Zapata 1 , C. Monteiro Bramante 1 , I. Gomes de Moraes 1 , N. Bernardineli 1 , V. Carvalho Porto 2 , AP. Campanelli 3 , RB Garcia 1 and M. Húngaro Duarte 1 . 1 Department of Endodontics, University of São Paulo, Av. O. Pinheiro Brisola 9-75, 17012-901, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 2 Department of Prosthodontics, University of São Paulo, Av. O. Pinheiro Brisola 9-75, 17012-901, Bauru, SP, Braz...

A new species of Orthosiphon (Lamiaceae), Orthosiphoncinereus A.J.Paton, sp. nov. from Angola is described and the eight species of Orthosiphon in Angola listed with reference to previous accounts. Orthosiphonnewtonii Briq. is reduced to the synonymy of Endostemontubulascens (Briq.) M.Ashby.

The study compared mineral, chemical and antioxidant qualities of Cleome gynandra, a wild leafy vegetable, with two widely consumed commercial vegetables, Brassica oleracea and Beta vulgaris. Mineral nutrients were quantified with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), phenolic compounds using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS)...

C(4) photosynthesis involves alterations to leaf development, cell biology and biochemistry. Different lineages of C(4) plants use varying mechanisms to generate the C(4) pathway. Although the biochemistry of C(4) photosynthesis was described around 20 years ago, the phylogenetic distance between Arabidopsis and the traditional C(4) models has not facilitated the transfer of knowledge from Arab...

Next-generation sequencing enables the study of species without a sequenced genome at the 'omics' level. Custom transcriptome databases are generated and global expression profiles can be compared. However, the assembly of transcriptome sequence reads into contigs remains a daunting task. In this study, five different assembly programs, both traditional overlap-based, 'read-centric' assemblers ...