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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flavonoid, pterocarpans and steroid from Erythrina fusca Lour. growing in Bangladesh: isolation, and antimicrobial and free-radical scavenging activity

Journal of Medicinal Plants, 2021
Background: Erythrina fusca Lour. (fam. Fabaceae) is a flowering tree, found extensively in tropical and subtropical Asian countries, and is known for its use in traditional medicine for the treatment of various human ailments, for example, fever, liver ...
A Anjum, M. Z. Sultan, S Ferdosh, M Kaisarul Islam, M. A. Rashid, L Nahar, S. D. Sarker   +6 more
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From fertilizer to insecticide: urban leaf litter chemistry alters the survival landscape of Aedes aegypti

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Chemical profiling and bioassays reveal that leaf‐litter leachates from urban trees flip between nourishing and killing Aedes aegypti larvae: dilute Tipuana tipu boosts growth, whereas concentrated, aged extracts are >90% lethal. Species‐specific chemistry thus turns street trees into potential self‐renewing tools for integrated vector control ...
Ana Luiza Caldatto, Gilberto Dinis Cozzer, Heloise Restello Remus, Raquel de Brito, Monica Santin Zanatta Schindler, Cássia Alves Lima‐Rezende, Jacir Dal Magro, Renan de Souza Rezende   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an attract‐and‐reward strategy: evaluating nectar resources and HIPVs under laboratory conditions to enhance Aphelinus mali parasitism activity, a key parasitoid of Eriosoma lanigerum

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Euphorbia segetalis is a promising attractant insectary plant for Aphelinus mali. Meanwhile, Vicia faba and Vicia sativa are a promising nectar resource to sustain the parasitoid in early spring when the population of Eriosoma lanigerum is low, and honeydew is scarce.
Luis Guillermo Montes‐Bazurto, Georgina Alins, Oscar Alomar, Carmen Quero, Sergio López, Judit Arnó   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Pseudarthria hookeri: A narrative review

Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development
Background: Pseudarthria hookeri Wight Arn. is a well-known and widely used medicinal plant in tropical Africa. Aim: The current study was aimed at documenting the ethnomedicinal uses, and botanical, phytochemical and pharmacological properties of P ...
Alfred Maroyi
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Calycosin Targets the CYP1B1‐AKT/SP1‐GPX4 Axis to Modulate Ferroptosis in Colorectal Carcinogenesis

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
Mechanism of Calycosin in Regulating Ferroptosis in Colorectal Cancer via Binding to CYP1B1. ABSTRACT Calycosin, a natural flavonoid small‐molecule compound derived from traditional Chinese medicine, has demonstrated remarkable pharmacological activity in the field of cancer therapy.
Lihan Bie, Xin Lei, Di Wu, Yang Zhang, Chengshan He, Luyao Liu, Jiawei Zhou, Xin Zhou, Yingying Lu, Zheng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A subfamília Faboideae (Fabaceae Lindl.) no Parque Estadual do Guartelá, Paraná, Brasil [PDF]

, 2009
Anna Luiza Pereira Andrade, Sílvia Teresinha Sfoggia Miotto, Dos Santos   +2 more
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Antimicrobial activity and antibiotic modulating effect of the bark extract of Dahlstedtia araripensis (Benth) Fabaceae

, 2022
Lucas Ribeiro de Melo Costa, Jairo Ferreira da Silva Neto, Cícera Janaine Camilo, Débora Odília Duarte Leite, Aracélio Viana Colares, João Tavares Calixto Júnior, Maria Flaviana Bezerra Morais‐Braga, Bruno Pinheiro Máximo, Victor Juno Alencar Fonseca, José Galberto Martins da Costa, Vanessa de Carvalho Nilo Bitu   +10 more
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New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Temperate winters are getting warmer, the length of the growing season is increasing and mid‐winter fluctuations of warm and freezing temperatures are more frequent. Although typically winter dormant, some herbaceous perennials can maintain or grow green leaves during ...
F. Curtis Lubbe, Andrea Kučerová, Martin Bitomský, Jitka Klimešová   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source