Background As agriculture has intensified, many once-common wildflowers have declined in arable landscapes, which widespread implications for associated ecosystem services. The incorporation of sustainable practices, example, growing living mulches (in-field, non-crop plant ground cover, maintained during the target crop season), can boost biodiversity, but few wildflower species been utilised ...

Achene morphology of 49 taxa of the genus Centaurea L. was studied in terms of 19 different characteristics. On the basis of the variation in these features, some sections, such as sect. Cyanus with hairy hilum, were separated. Despite various differences, C. leuzeoides and C. gilanica were categorized in the section Psephelloideae, a section with lots of character variations within its species...

ABSTRACT Edible flowers are rich in bioactive compounds and pigments that on increasing demand nutraceutical, medicinal, food, cosmetic dyeing industries. This study evaluated the anthocyanins, phenolics antioxidant activity of eight edible ( Bellis perennis L., Centaurea cyanus Dianthus carthusianorum Lavandula angustifolia Mill., Primula vulgaris Huds., Rosa canina pendulina L. Viola odorata ...

The genus Centaurea s.l. is one of the richest and most taxonomically complex Asteraceae family. It includes between 400 700 species, which more than 70 are found in Bulgaria – a territory considered as secondary centers speciation genus. There large number endemics (Bulgarian Balkan) with endemism reaching up to 50% some groups, such Cyanus gr. Due ongoing active Balkans, boundaries closely re...

Wood distillate (WD) is an environmentally safe bio-based product stimulating plant growth and yield allowed in Italy organic farming. To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies on effects WD spontaneous plants growing among crops, including their functional traits such as biomass. test effects, we carried out a lab experiment artificially reconstructed arable communities composed five ...