Abstract Since the 1980s, there has been a significant emphasis in biotechnology on utilisation of medicinal plants as source raw materials for pharmaceutical industry. Moreover, have identified potential alternative essential compounds with wide range applications, including those involved producing medications, nutraceuticals, food additives, cosmeceuticals, natural pigments, and preservative...

Abstract Anacardiaceae is an ecologically and economically important plant family of about 200 species in 32 genera the Neotropics. The particularly diverse leaf architecture fruit morphology, making it a model to study evolution structural diversity as correlates with lineage diversification. This primary reason 11 Neotropical are monotypic that so many recognized Anacardiaceae. economic value...

The use of traditional medicine is expanding to newer horizons and plants still remain as the novel source of structurally important compounds that lead to the development of innovative drugs. India has about 45,000 plant species among which medicinal property has been attributed to several thousands. The traditional Indian system of medicine, the Ayurveda, mentions the use of plants in the tre...

Background & Aim: Iran with about 8000 plant species and 1728 endemic species; is one of the most important sources of medicinal plants. Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss., belonging to the Lamiaceae family, is one of the endemic plants in Iran. It grows in regions of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Gorgan, Mazandaran, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Tehran, Fars and the northern heights of Semna...

Plants are attractive platforms for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Plants' modular and plastic body plans, capacity for photosynthesis, extensive secondary metabolism, and agronomic systems for large-scale production make them ideal targets for genetic reprogramming. However, efforts in this area have been constrained by slow growth, long life cycles, the requirement for specializ...

Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) has a long and prestigious history of publishing high-quality papers presenting new findings across a broad range of plant sciences. This year, 2017, marks the journal’s 68th year, and the coming two years leading up to our 70th anniversary will be a particularly exciting period. With a new Editor in Chief five years ago, it was an important point to reflect...

The genus Cassia, comprising about 600 species widely distributed worldwide is well known for its diverse biological and pharmacological properties. Cassia spectabilis (sin Senna spectabilis) (DC) Irwin et Barn (Fabaceae) is widely grown as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical areas. C. spectabilis has been commonly used in traditional medicine for many years. Information in the biom...