Plant based natural products have been widely used as antibacterial and insect repellent
agents globally. Because of growing resistance in bacterial plant pathogens and urban …

The need for herbal medicinal plants is steadily increasing. Hence, the accurate
identification of plant material has become vital for safe usage, avoiding adulteration, and …

Herein, we applied DNA barcoding for the genetic characterization of Sideritis syriaca
subsp. syriaca (Lamiaceae; threatened local Cretan endemic plant) using seven molecular …

Culex pipiens mosquitoes are the most widely distributed primary vector of the West Nile
virus worldwide. Many attempts for investigation of botanical pesticides to avoid the …

Herbal medication developed from natural resources has to have antibacterial and
antioxidant effects. The aim of this research is to look at the chemical makeup of Solanecio …

Background Spices and herbs are food categories regularly cited as highly susceptible to be
adulterated. To detect potential adulteration with undeclared species, DNA-based methods …

Tulsi (Holy basil, Ocimum tenuiflorum L., Lamiaceae), native to Asia, has become globalised
as the cultural, cosmetic, and medicinal uses of the herb have been popularised. DNA …

Sideritis elica, from the Rhodope Mountains, is described as a species new to science.
Results of a detailed morphological analysis were combined with the data of molecular …

Adulteration and substitution of medicinal plants have become a matter of great concern in
recent years. Euphorbia tithymaloides is one such medicinal plant that has gained …

Thymus persicus is a valuable natural source of anticancer triterpenic acids (TAs) such as
betulinic acid (BA), oleanolic acid (OA), and ursolic acid (UA), which is growing wild in the …