The impact of excess fat and high-calorie intake on the human body is an acute problem for many economically developed countries. Modelling effects health rats supplementing their diet with crushed seeds Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Sylibum marianum Gaertn was carried out in a laboratory experiment. In control group animals, weight increased by 700 mg/day, addition E. – 1394 mg/day S. only 15...

The plant growth regulator diethyl aminoethyl hexanoate (DA-6) has proved highly effective on micropropagation of the medicinal plant purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench), however, sharp variation of the effects existed among explants in the same treatment, making the application of DA-6 in micropropagation difficult. In order to clarify factors that influencing the treating resul...

Echinacea is one of the top ten selling medicinal herbs in Europe and United States. Commercially available formulations may contain different plant parts of three species (Echinacea purpurea, E. pallida, and E. angustifolia). Our study evaluates the diversity of microbial community associated with healthy E. purpurea clones and their ability to produce defense compounds. We recovered and ident...

Abstract Attractive displays can stimulate sales in the retail setting. With most plants still sold physical outlets, influence of display layout on visual behavior and purchasing is interest to academicians practitioners. Using a within-subjects in-lab experiment eye tracking technology, we explored how cognitive load imposed by horticultural affects attention choice. Display layouts were vari...

background: applications of natural ingredients not only increase the shelf life of food but also omit the problems of synthetic preservatives compounds. objective: cinnamon verum essential oil (cveo 0.05, 0.1, 0.15%) and echinacea purpurea extract (epe 0.25, 0.5, 0.75%) were added to kolompe (a traditional cookie in kerman-iran) and their antioxidant and antimicrobial effects were compared wit...

background: oxidation of lipids causes reduction of different properties of products that contains lipids. nowadays, there is a growing demand for the natural antioxidants due to the harmful effects of synthetic antioxidants such as bha, bht and tbhq. objective: in this study, extract of aerial parts of echinacea purpurea l. was used instead of synthetic antioxidants in cake then, antioxidant a...