BACKGROUND Currently-available antidepressant agents produce various adverse effects, and are expensive. At present, various plants are being evaluated for their possible role against numerous diseases, and no doubt, the role of traditional and complementary medicines in the development of effective therapy is incredible. The present study was designed to evaluate antidepressant-like activity o...

-A lectin of M, ca 45,000 per subunit from Amaranthus leucocarpus seeds, has been isolated and purified by affinity chromatography using a stroma column. It is a glycoprotein (10% w/w carbohydrate) containing six N-acetylD-glucosamines, four D-galactoses, one D-glucose and traces of xylose residues for each three D-mannose residues per molecule. Its amino acid composition reveals a predominance...

Simultaneous use of parasitoids and entomopathogenic nematodes for codling moth (CM) control could produce an antagonistic interaction between the two groups resulting in death of the parasitoid larvae. Two ectoparasitic ichneumonid species, Mastrus ridibundus and Liotryphon caudatus, imported for classical biological control of cocooned CM larvae were studied regarding their interactions with ...

Teff and amaranth are gluten-free cereals with significant nutritional health benefits. However, they underutilized known in limited areas of the world. The present study evaluated fatty acid profile, crude fat, squalene content lipid quality seven teff (Eragrostis (Zucc.) Trotter) three (Amaranthus caudatus L.) varieties from Ethiopia. fat ranged 2.92 to 3.34% (averaging 3.06%) 8.28 9.21% 8.6%...

One of the important areas modern science is conservation biodiversity, including plant diversity, which occurs through introduction. Among introducers are species genus Amaranthus L., promising for use in many sectors economy. Species well known crop production, and fodder becoming more widespread as food, medicinal, technical plants. Due to high productive potential sagebrush plants multifunc...