The lotus plant is recognized as a 'King plant' among all the natural water repellent plants due to its excellent non-wettability. The superhydrophobic surfaces exhibiting the famous 'Lotus Effect', along with extremely high water contact angle (>150°) and low sliding angle (<10°), have been broadly investigated and extensively applied on variety of substrates for potential self-cleaning and an...

Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. (Nymphaeaceae) is a potential aquatic crop grown and consumed throughout Asia. All parts of N. nucifera have been used for various medicinal purposes in various systems of medicine including folk medicines, Ayurveda, Chinese traditional medicine, and oriental medicine. Many chemical constituents have been isolated till the date. However, the bioactive constituents of lo...

IT is clear from his Tract on Establishing the Vow 立誓願文 that Huisi 慧思 (515–577), the Grand Master of Nanyue, had a profound faith in the Prajñå SËtra and Lotus SËtra. Fortunately for us, it is possible to ascertain Huisi’s view of the Lotus SËtra from Huisi’s Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss in the Lotus SËtra 法華經安樂行義 (hereafter abbreviated as Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss). Th...

the low pO 2 treatment in both species. Immunogold labelling showed that the MAC265 antigen was localThe pasture legumes Lotus uliginosus (Schk.) and ized primarily within intercellular spaces within nodule Lotus corniculatus (L.), known to differ in their tolercortices from both Lotus species. A marked decrease ance to flooding, were inoculated with Rhizobium loti in deposition of the MAC265 a...

The multi-scale microstructure of a lotus leaf is rendered non-wetting by micro-protrusions and nano-hairs present on its surface. The mechanical properties of the surface become important since the water droplet has to be supported on the micro-protrusions without wetting the surface. Current work correlates the non-wetting behavior of the lotus leaf with its mechanical properties (Young's mod...

Lotus seeds were identified by the Ministry of Public Health of China as both food and medicine. One general function of lotus seeds is to improve intestinal health. However, to date, studies evaluating the relationship between bioactive compounds in lotus seeds and the physiological activity of the intestine are limited. In the present study, by using medium pressure liquid chromatography coup...

Symbiosis involves responses that maintain the plant host and symbiotic partner's genetic program; yet these cues are far from elucidated. Here we describe the effects of lumichrome, a flavin identified from Rhizobium spp., applied to lotus (Lotus japonicus) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Combined transcriptional and metabolite analyses suggest that both species shared common pathways that ...

Zizyphus lotus, belonging to the Rhamnaceae family, is a deciduous shrub which generally grows in arid and semiarid regions of the globe. In traditional medicine, Z. lotus is used as antidiabetes, sedative, bronchitis, and antidiarrhea by local populations. Recently, several scientific reports for health benefit and nutritional potential of bioactive compounds from this jujube have been reporte...