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Water limitation represents the main environmental constraint affecting crop yield worldwide. Photosynthesis is a primary drought target, resulting in over-reduction of the photosynthetic electron transport chain and inc...

Based on informal interview, ethnoveterinary information about plants used in the prevention and control of bovine mastitis in Southern Brazil were obtained. Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Ktze. ("penicilina"), Foeniculum...

Diuretic activity of five medicinal plants (Cassia alata L., Zanthoxylum fagara L., Nectandra coriacea Sw, Costus pictus D. Don, and Persea americana Miller) used by Cuban population was assessed. Plants decoctions (30 %...

Son presentados datos etnobotánicos sobre el uso de plantas por los herederos culturales de los africanos en Brasil. El trabajo de campo fue conducido en la ciudad de Recife, estado de Pernambuco. Se informan los nombre...

Inflammatory diseases including different types of rheumatic diseases are very common throughout the world. The greatest disadvantage in the presently available potent synthetic drugs lies in their side effects, toxicity...

Species of Sapindus (Sapindaceae) are widespread throughout the tropics (e.g., Brazil, China and India). The present report is based on available data and references on species of this genus. The main substances found ...

Many plants have recently been considered as potential sunscreen resources because of their capacity to absorb the solar ultraviolet radiation. The objective of this work was to evaluate the sunscreen activity of ten Zon...

Extractos de once especies de la flora brasileña fueron estudiados para evaluar la actividad citotóxica por el test de Artemia salina. Las plantas seleccionadas fueron: Baccharis pseudotenuifolia, Baccharis ligustrina...

Solanaceous plants are widely distributed around the world and they are traditionally used as drugs for the treatment of cancer and herpes, and include familiar foods such as potato, tomato and eggplant and some berries ...

Crude drug and different extracts of Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC., A. tomentosa Rusby, Gnaphalium cheiranthifolium Lam. and G. gaudichaudianum DC. (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae) are widely used in South America mainly ...

Actualmente la osteoporosis es reconocida como un problema de salud pública dado que esta enfermedad, que aumenta la fragilidad del hueso y por lo tanto el riesgo de fracturas, se asocia en todo el mundo a alta mortalid...

The use of and search for drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Ethnopharmacologists, botanists, microbiologists, and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phyt...

Several reactive oxygen species (ROS) are continuously produced in plants as byproducts of aerobic metabolism. Depending on the nature of the ROS species, some are highly toxic and rapidly detoxified by various cellular ...