The pharmacognostic features of Cleome gynandra L. a traditional anticancer drug for ascertaining its authenticity. Macroscopic, microscopic, histochemical localization studies and preliminary phytochemical screening along with HPTLC analysis were carried out the aerial parts selected plant. results macro, quantitative revealed presence some unique microscopic features. Preliminary data suggest...

The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of the crude extract of Cleome droserifolia (CD) leaves on experimentally infected mice with Schistosoma mansoni. Two groups of mice, showing a patent infection of S. mansoni, one of them was daily treated with an alcoholic extract of CD leaves (0.31 g kg-1 body weight, i.p.) for 21 days. The schistosomicidal activity of the CD extract was e...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Ibicella lutea and Proboscidea parviflora are two American semi-desert species of glandular sticky plants that are suspected of carnivory as they can catch small insects. The same characteristics might also hold for two semi-desert plants with glandular sticky leaves from Israel, namely Cleome droserifolia and Hyoscyamus desertorum. The presence of proteases on foliar hairs,...

During evolution, genomes expanded via whole-genome, segmental, tandem, and individual-gene duplications, and the emerged redundant paralogs would be eliminated or retained owing to selective neutrality or adaptive benefit and further functional divergence. Here we show that tandem paralogs can contribute adaptive quantitative benefit and thus have been retained in a lineage-specific manner. In...

Spiderplant (Cleome gynandra L.,) exists as a semi-cultivated, indigenous leafy vegetable in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It has natural habitat the tropics and sub-tropics. The crop potential to contribute sustainable food nutritional security. This is due its richness both macro- micro-nutrients (minerals, vitamins essential oils respectively). With ethnopharmacological uses, it underutilized la...