Article history: Received on: 20/02/2016 Revised on: 31/05/2016 Accepted on: 02/08/2016 Available online: 05/09/2016 This is the first report on review of Lagerstroemia species which includes the detailed description on phytochemistry and its pharmacological research. Despite being rich in important phytochemicals and having possible medicinal value there is no enough information available on t...

Medicinal plants acts as a raw material base for the elaboration of more complex semi-synthetic chemical compounds. India is a home to a variety of traditional medicine systems that relay to a very large extent on native plant species for their raw drug materials. Therefore, now there is a need to look back towards the traditional medicine which can serve as novel therapeutics. Toddalia asiatic...

Exotic Wisteria species are highly favoured for their horticultural qualities and have been cultivated in North America since the early 1800s. This study determines the identity, genetic diversity and hybrid status of 25 Asian Wisteria cultivars using plastid, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data. Fifteen (60%) hybrid cultivars were identified. All of the ‘Wisteria sinensis’ cultivars sampled are...

Pollen analysis of a sediment sample obtained at 222 cm from the top of a drilling core collected in the Bay of Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, was used as a tool to obtain more knowledge about pre-historical human living and environment. 14C datation revealed the age of 4210 years B.P. Most frequent pollen grains came from plants like Alchornea (Euphorbiaceae), Celtis (Ulmaceae), Lecythidaceae, Mel...

Cytoplasmic inheritance was investigated in interspecific hybrids of Wisteria sinensis and W. floribunda. Species-specific nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid DNA markers were identified from wild-collected plants of each species in its native range. These markers provide evidence for the bi-parental transmission of plastids in hybrid swarms of these two species in the southeastern USA. These po...

Buruli ulcer (BU) imposes a serious economic burden on affected households and on health systems that are involved in diagnosing the disease and treating patients. Research is needed to find cost-effective therapies for this costly disease. Plants have always been an important source of new pharmacologically active molecules. Consequently we decided to undertake the study of plants used in trad...