An elevated level of serum urea and creatinine was observed in doxorubicin (DOX) treated animals indicating DOX-induced nephrotoxicity. Enhanced lipid peroxidation (LPO) in the renal tissue was accompanied by a significant decrease in the levels of reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR) and catalase (CAT) activities. Administration of lycopene (LycT)...

Until now numbers of efforts have been made to deduce the optimized conditions for the in vitro regeneration of tomato plant. The optimized conditions deduced are contradictory to each other and to validate the optimum conditions the present investigation was carried out which directs the use of 1.5 mg/l IAA + 1.5 mg/l Zeatin with full strength Murashige and Skoog’s (MS) medium for the developm...

Cattle dung vermicompost (VC) was used to prepare different proportions of soil and vermicompost mixtures viz. Soil (control), VC15 (Soil+15% VC), VC30 (Soil+30% VC), VC45 (Soil+45% VC). Vermicompost was chemically analysed for various parameters like pH, Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN), Total Available Phosphorous (TAP), Total Sodium (TNa), Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Electric Conductivity (E...

Endophytes are the microbes, which reside inside the plants without causing any harm. They colonize the internal plant tissues and form a different range of interaction including symbiotic and trophobiotic. Such bacteria promote plant growth and also act as biocontrol agents. In some cases endophytes also applied as biological agents like nanoparticles in controlling human diseases including ca...

BACKGROUND Plants are among promising and suitable platform systems for production of recombinant biopharmaceutical proteins due to several features such as safety, no need for fermentation, inexpensive investment, and fast and easy scale-up. Human insulin is one of the most widely used medicines in the world. Up to now different expression systems including Escherichia coli, yeast and CHO have...

The capacity of a leonardite humic acid (LHA), a soil humic acid (SHA), and a soil fulvic acid (SFA) in modulating the allelopathic potential of caffeic acid (CA), ferulic acid (FA), and salicylic acid (SA) on seedlings of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) was investigated. Lettuce showed a sensitivity greater than that of tomato to CA, FA, and SA phytotoxic...

Nitrogen is an indispensable element for plants, being the fourth element as a percentage of plants by carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, in his absence they do not develop as a result of inhibition of chlorophyll synthesis and loss of nutritional values of fruits, hence the efficiency of this element in plans fertility of all plants. Conversely nitrogen (N), plants sensitizes the fall and decreases ...

The occurrence of triploidy in the tomato has recently been reported (LESLEY 1925). In 1923 one of two triploid plants of Dwarf Aristocrat, a dwarf variety with scarlet fruit, was crossed with Globe, a diploid with standard habit and crimson fruit. The dwarf habit is a simple recessive to standard, and the yellow skin of scarlet fruit is a simple dominant to the colorless skin of crimson. An F1...