A Preliminary Study of the Crossing Relationships of Capsicum baccatum

The common bird pepper or chilipequin is a variable species ranging from the southern United States throughout Central America into Columbia. It has generally been assumed that this pepper was first described by Linnaeus in his Mantissa of 1767 under the binomial Capsicum baccatum, although Hunziker in his synopsis of the genus apparently does not accept this interpretation. While some authors have treated this taxon as a distinct species, others have considered it a variety of C. frutescens or as a variety of C. annuum. Hence, it seemed desirable that a study be undertaken to contribute to an understanding of the diverse forms of C. baccatum, both to each other and to other species within the genus

Breeding amphibians in captivity

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73877/1/j.1748-1090.1977.tb00864.x.pd

Ethnobotany and antimicrobial peptide from plants of Solanaceae family: An update and future prospect

The Solanaceae is an important plant family that has been playing an essential role in traditional medicine and human nutrition. Members of the Solanaceae are rich in bioactive metabolites and have been used by different tribes around the world for ages. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from plants have drawn great interest in recent years and raised new hope for developing new antimicrobial agents for meeting the challenges of antibiotic resistance. This review aims to summarize the reported AMPs from plants of the Solanaceae with possible molecular mechanisms of action as well as to correlate their traditional uses with reported antimicrobial actions of the peptides. A systematic literature study was conducted using different databases until August 2019 based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. According to literature, a variety of AMPs including defensins, protease inhibitor, lectins, thionin-like peptides, vicilin-like peptides, and snaking were isolated from plants of the Solanaceae and were involved in their defense mechanism. These peptides exhibited significant antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activity against organisms for both plant and human host. Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Nicotiana, Salpichora, Solanum, Petunia, and Withania are the most commonly studied genera for AMPs. Among these genera, Capsicum and the Solanum ranked top according to the total number of studies (35%–38% studies) for different AMPs. The mechanisms of action of the reported AMPs from Solanaceae was not any new rather similar to other reported AMPs including alteration of membrane potential and permeability, membrane pore formation, and cell aggregation. Whereas, induction of cell membrane permiabilization, inhibition of germination and alteration of hyphal growth were reported as mechanisms of antifungal activity. Plants of the Solanaceae have been used traditionally as antimicrobial, insecticidal, and antiinfectious agents, and as poisons. The reported AMPs from the Solanaceae are the products of chemical shields to protect plants from microorganisms and pests which unfold an obvious link with their traditional medicinal use. In summary, it is evident that AMPs from this family possess considerable antimicrobial activity against a wide range of bacterial and fungal pathogens and can be regarded as a potential source for lead molecules to develop new antimicrobial agents

Narcotic plants : Revised and enlarged

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Detection of palynological introgression in Salvia (Labiatae)

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THE ETHNOBOTANY OF THE DRESDEN CODEX WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NARCOTIC NYMPHAEA AMPLA

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The role of introgressive hybridization in the development of Salvia: section Audibertia (Labiatae)

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