Zygotic embryos excised from immature green fruits of the rattan palm, Calamus thwaitesii and cultured for 16 weeks under optimum culture conditions in Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 31.67 μM 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 35.23 μM 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) produced mixed (compact and friable) calli at 70 and 92 % rates. The semi-friable part of ...

Nootropic drugs used as a memory enhancer can improve thinking, memory, and alertness in people with Alzheimer’s disease and other disease that affect the mind. Memory is perhaps the most vital of all aspects that differentiates human beings from other animals. However, memory can become faulty due to several reasons, and in that case the person is not able to make full use of his or her potent...

The relationship between plants and human beings has been known since time immemorial. Nowadays, there is scientific study of the that exists people plants. This includes used as food, phytochemicals, pharmacology, clothing, currency, ritual, medicine, dye, construction, etc. Manipur was a small princely state in North-East India, having history about 2000 years. As under Indo-Burma Biodiversit...

The objectives of the present study were to investigate phytochemical composition essential oils (EO) from rhizomes Acorus calamus collected Jorhat, Assam; Munsyari and Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. EOs studied for different pesticidal activities viz; nematicidal, insecticidal, herbicidal activity. To synergistic effect on activity, four combinations prepared. Phenylpropanoids with β-asarone a...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed for the rare sedge Lepidosperma bungalbin (Cyperaceae) to assess genetic variation and its spatial structuring. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted shotgun sequencing on an Illumina MiSeq and produced 6,215,872 sequence reads. The QDD pipeline was used to design 60 primer pairs that were screened using PCR. We developed 17 loci, of which...