Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell cultures have been used to produce plant secondary metabolites, as well as in biosynthetic studies. Shikonin, a representative secondary metabolite of L. erythrorhizon, was first produced industrially by dedifferentiated cell cultures in the 1980s. This culture system has since been used in research on various plant secondary metabolites. Other boraginaceaeous pl...

Iranian Echium species (Boraginaceae), popularly known as "Gol-e-Gavzaban" are native plants that some of them have been used widely as food and traditional medicine since long times. In this work organs from different populations of two Iranian Echium species were collected from their natural locations in order to analyze their phenolic content and antioxidant activity. Hydroalcoholic extracts...

echium amoenum (boraginaceae), a very popular medicinal plant in iran traditional medicine, is used as a tonic, tranquillizer, diaphoretic, cough and sore throat remedy, and antipneumonia. preliminary phytochemical studies of the plant showed that it contains saponins, flavonoids, unsaturated terpenoids and sterols. in this study, an aqueous extract from petals of this plant was used 125 mg/kg ...

A világon mindenütt, így hazánkban is folyamatosan nő az újonnan megjelenő nem őshonos növényfajok száma. Az új megjelenések felfedezésében, dokumentálásában nemcsak a hivatá­sos kutatók vehetnek részt, hanem nagy szerepe lehet civileknek is. útifűlevelű kígyószisz (Echium plantagineum L.) egyik első hazai adata egy internetes, növényhatározással foglalkozó csoportban került elő. faj nyugat-med...