Desert truffles belonging to Terfezia are well known mycorrhizal members of the mycota of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. We aimed to test (i) whether the morphological criteria of Terfezia species regularly collected in Spain enable their separation and (ii) whether the previously hypothesized edaphic/biotic specificity of one group could be confirmed by study of a larger number ...

When I was a student of medicine, we were taught that malaria was not an infectious disease—i.e., not transmissible from person to person—and that it was originated by inhaling bad air. It was regarded as the type of the miasmatic as contrasted with the contagious diseases. What a change has taken place since then! Now we know that malaria can be transmitted when one injects the blood of a mala...

We have performed the isolation, functional characterization, and expression analysis of aquaporins in roots and leaves of Helianthemum almeriense, in order to evaluate their roles in tolerance to water deficit. Five cDNAs, named HaPIP1;1, HaPIP1;2, HaPIP2;1, HaPIP2;2, and HaTIP1;1, were isolated from H. almeriense. A phylogenetic analysis of deduced proteins confirmed that they belong to the w...

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the phytochemical contents and antioxidant activity Helianthemum lippii (L.) Dum.Cours. crude extract. Methods: For preliminary analysis, standard procedures were applied, while identification quantification individual phenolic compounds performed by HPLC analysis. Folin–Ciocalteu method was used evaluate total acid content plant extracts, flavon...