Objective:Boswellia papyrifera (Del.) Hochst and Ruta chalepensis L. are aromatic plants used in the Republic of Djibouti, both as food and medicine. The importance of essential oil...
Objective:To evaluate the anti-infectious and antioxidant activities of hydroethanolic extract of Canarium schweinfurthii on broiler chickens infected by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium,known to be threatening...
In the Amazonian rainforest, many species of Burseraceae known locally as “breu” are explored for the medicinal and aromatic uses of their trunk exudates. This material also has a long-standing use by the forest com...
Supported by International Foundation for Sciences(Grant No.AF/20286)
Objective: To assess the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities as well as to determine the flavonoids and phenolic acids content of active fractions.Methods: Two medicinal plant samples were extracted successiv...
Research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) #0919179 (AW), NSF #14o315o (AW and MRG), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (Graduate Research Grant to MRG), the George Mason University Department of Environmental Science and Policy (Graduate Research Fellow- ship to MRG), and the George Mason University Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR Undergraduate Research Scholars Program award to KAC and MRG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or our other sponsors. Joe Boland (NIH AGI), John Lynch and Lena Emadi (Fluidigm Corporation), Simon Uribe-Convers (University of Idaho), Doug Soltis (University of Florida), Eric Carpenter (OneKP project), and the Beijing Genomics Institute (OneKP) provided invaluable technical advice as well as generous material support and guidance. Lastly, we thank herbaria and other institutions that were integral to our conducting this research: Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, Madagascar (TAN); Centre National de la Recherche Appliquee au Developement Rural, Madagascar (TEF); Mis- souri Botanical Garden; and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Developing effective and cost-efficient multilocus nuclear datasets for angiosperm species is a continuing challenge to the systematics community. Here we describe the development and validation of a novel set of 91 n...
The preliminary study is aimed at evaluating the cytotoxic activity of crude extracts from the stem bark of Canarium odontophyllum against colorectal carcinoma cell HCT 116. Result of the extraction yield showed that ...
financially supported by the National Medicinal Plants Board,New Delhi
Guggal, a threatened species that is endemic to western India, is tapped to extract medicinally important oleo-gum-resin (guggul). However, the plant dies after gum exudation. The indigenous tapping techniques used ...