[HTML][HTML] Cosmetopoeia of African Plants in Hair Treatment and Care: Topical Nutrition and the Antidiabetic Connection?

AA Ajao, NJ Sadgrove - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
To make the distinction against pharmaceuticals, natural product medicines are more
accurately denoted as nutritional therapies. In the context of topical therapies targeting …

Asclepiadoideae subfamily (Apocynaceae): ethnopharmacology, biological activities and chemophenetics based on pregnane glycosides

TA de Souza, FSV Lins, J da Silva Lins, AF Alves… - Phytochemistry …, 2024 - Springer
Apocynaceae, one of the largest plant families with over 5.100 widely distributed species,
serves as a significant model for evolutionary and biochemical studies. Within this family …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary Study on Insecticidal Potential and Chemical Composition of Five Rutaceae Essential Oils against Thrips flavus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

TH Pei, YJ Zhao, SY Wang, XF Li, CQ Sun, SS Shi… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
To meet the demand for novel pest management strategies to combat the development of
insecticide resistance, plant essential oils may be a promising alternative source. This study …

Understanding the phytochemical diversity of plants: Quantification, variation and ecological function

H Petrén, RA Anaia, KS Aragam, A Bräutigam, S Eckert… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Plants produce a great number of phytochemical compounds mediating a variety of different
functions. Recently, phytochemical diversity (chemodiversity), a way which to quantify the …

[HTML][HTML] Phytochemical diversity within and among Sardinian populations of the endemic Teucrium marum L.(Lamiaceae) is determined by ecological factors

A Maccioni, S Macis, M Gibernau, E Farris - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Wild aromatic plants present high intra-and inter-population chemical polymorphisms which
are of great ecological and economic interest; however, the factors influencing the …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical diversity and redox values change as a function of temporal variations of the essential oil of a tropical forest shrub

C Costa-Oliveira, JG Gouvêa-Silva, D Brito Machado… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the chemical phenotypical variability of Piper lhotzkyanum Kunth
(Piperaceae), a shrub found in Brazilian tropical forests, over time (different periods of the …

Antifouling activity of aquatic macrophyte extracts on estuarine bacterial biofilms

MLP Morales, GP Figurelli, B Oleinski… - Chemistry and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ecologically safe antifouling solutions have received growing attention since the
acknowledgment of the environmental risks of traditional biocides used currently. Given that …

Chemodiversity and Trypanocidal Activity of the Volatile Oils of Tropical Black Sage

EADP de Medeiros, RV Nascimento… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2024 - Springer
Tropical black sage (Varronia curassavica Jacq., Cordiaceae) is a species native to
ecosystems subject to strong anthropic action, and thus is at risk of genetic erosion …

[HTML][HTML] Rumors of Psychedelics, Psychotropics and Related Derivatives in Vachellia and Senegalia in Contrast with Verified Records in Australian Acacia

NJ Sadgrove - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
There are almost 1000 species of Acacia sensu stricto in Australia, while the 44 species and
4 subspecies in southern Africa were taxonomically revised in the year 2011 to Senegalia …

Optimizing Variation in Agronomic Traits of Cymbopogon flexuosus and Cymbopogon winterianus in Different Treatments and Altitude of Uttarakhand, India

R Gupta, N Lodhiyal, S Tamta… - … JOURNAL OF PLANT …, 2023 - ijplantenviro.com
Cymbopogon flexuosus and Cymbopogon winterianus are aromatic grasses, valued for
essential oils. This study aims to develop propagation protocol for C. flexuosus and C …