Host size and distance from an infected plant have been previously found to affect mistletoe occurrence in woody vegetation but the effect of host plant competition on mistletoe infection has not been empirically tested. For an individual tree, increasing competition from neighbouring trees decreases its resource availability, and resource availability is also known to affect the establishment ...

Halophytes develop various morphological and physiological traits that enable them to grow successfully on saline substrates. Parasitic plants on halophytic hosts may also encounter salt stress. We investigated the mistletoe Plicosepalus acaciae (syn: Loranthus acacia; Loranthaceae), which occurs on 5 halophytic and at least 10 non-halophytic hosts in the Southern Arava Valley (Israel). Plicose...

Az Antispila Hübner, 1825 génusz három fajának – a típusfaj, vagyis az A. metallella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), petryi Martini, 1899 és treitschkiella (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1843) honossága igazolt. fajt szinonimájának tekintették negyven éven át, csak legutóbbi időkben állították vissza faji rangját. A szerzők elmúlt években két bábot egy hernyót gyűjtöttek, melyeket molekuláris ...

The incidence of trypanosomiasis remains a source concern in the tropics and other parts world. Trypanosomiasis is lethal disease which affects both man animals. It caused by parasitic protozoon Genus Trypanosoma. Effects aqueous crude leave extracts Loranthus micranthus on biochemical parameters wistar rats infected with Trypanosoma brucei were examined. Seventy-two adult-male grouped into six...

We investigated the vascular responses and the blood pressure reducing effects of different fractions obtained from the methanol extract of Loranthus ferrugineus Roxb. (F. Loranthaceae). By means of solvent-solvent extraction, L. ferrugineus methanol extract (LFME) was successively fractionated with chloroform, ethyl acetate and n-butanol. The ability of these LFME fractions to relax vascular s...

OBJECTIVE To provide further evidence for the ethnomedicinal use of the Eastern Nigeria mistletoe, Loranthus micranthus (L. micranthus), as an immunostimulant. METHODS Solvent fractions from the crude extract of the mistletoe plant was obtained and screened by the cell mediated delayed type hypersensitivity reaction (DTHR) model in mice. Then the immunomodulatory potentials of a major lupane ...