Pharmacologyonline 3: 64-72 (2006) Newsletter ROLE AND SCOPE OF ETHNOMEDICAL PLANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIVIRALS Debprasad Chattopadhyay ICMR Virus Unit‚ ID & BG Hospital‚ GB 4‚ First floor‚ 57 Dr. Suresh C Banerjee Road‚ Beliaghata‚ Kolkata 700 010‚ India. Summary Ethnomedicinal plants have been used as source of drugs for almost all diseases‚ but none are used against viruses probably because there are a very few specific viral targets for natural molecules to interact. Most
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BANGLADESH INTRODUCTION by Abdul Wahab Akonda Area: 144‚054 sq.km. Population: 104‚000‚000 (1987). Bangladesh lies between latitudes 20°34 ’N and 26°38 ’N and longitudes 88°0l ’E and 92°41 ’E. It is bounded by India in the west and north‚ by India and Burma in the east‚ and by the Bay of Bengal in the south. Zoogeographically‚ Bangladesh is an interesting country lying at the junction of the Indian and Malayan sub-regions of the Indomalayan Realm. The country has a very long history of human settlement
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waterfowl‚ the Government of Maharashtra declared this wetland as Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary in 1986. The aquatic vegetation includes mainly the species of species of chara‚ Spirogyra‚ Hydrilla‚ Potamogeton and Vallisneria. Argemone mexicana and Ipomoea fistulosa are found in the surrounding area. Nearby areas are irrigated agricultural fields. The newly created reservoir has changed ecological conditions from semi-arid to rich cultivated fields. The Sanctuary is rich in bird fauna associated
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Eco-degradation AND PHYTODIVERSITY OF PULICAT LAGOON‚ EASTCOAST OF SOUTHREN INDIA S.K.M.BHASHA‚ M. JOHNPAUL‚P.SIVA KUMAR REDDY NBKR Medicinal Plants Research Institute‚ SPSP Nellore (DT)‚ Bharathiyar University‚ Coimbatore. drskmbasha@gmail.com ABSTRACT: Pulicat Lake is the second largest brackish water lagoon after Chilika Lake of Orissa along the east coast of India. Estuaries and lagoons have brackish water which shows high biological productivity
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Cassava (Manihot esculenta)‚ also called manioc‚ yuca‚ balinghoy‚ mogo‚ mandioca‚ kamoteng kahoy‚ tapioca (predominantly in India) and manioc root‚ a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge) family native to South America‚ is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root‚ a major source of carbohydrates. It differs from the similarly spelled yucca‚ an unrelated fruit-bearing shrub in the Asparagaceae family. Cassava‚ when dried
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Tamarind Crop for the future Spices & Condiments Report Shalini Shashi 11FET1001 T.Y.Btech Foods History Tamarind is a native of tropical Africa and southern Asia. Various geographical areas have been proposed for the origin of tamarind: India or the Far East or Africa but the consensus is that it is Africa. Seeds are reported from the early historic site of Ter in Maharashtra. Cultivation of tamarind in Egypt by 400 BC has
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CHAPTER 1 The Background Introduction Chickens are probably the most numerous birds in the world‚ largely because of their importance; chickens are raised as a hobby by fancies that breed them for their beauty and for other special characteristics.( Retrieved November 2010 from‚ Encyclopedia Americana 1998‚) In many countries ‚ highly efficient industry engaged in production ‚ processing and marketing of chicken meat and eggs has evolved ‚ making the raising of chickens one
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View Article Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue Green Chemistry Cite this: Green Chem.‚ 2011‚ 13‚ 2638 www.rsc.org/greenchem Dynamic Article Links CRITICAL REVIEW Green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using plants Siavash Iravani* Received 10th April 2011‚ Accepted 20th July 2011 DOI: 10.1039/c1gc15386b In recent years‚ the development of efficient green chemistry methods for synthesis of metal nanoparticles has become a major focus of researchers. They have
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FACTORS AFFECTING BELOWGROUND BIOCONTROL ACTIVITY IN URBAN GARDENS AND VACANT LOTS Priyanka Yadav‚ Kuhuk Sharma and Parwinder S. Grewal* Center for Urban Environment and Economic Development‚ Department of Entomology‚ The Ohio State University‚ OARDC‚ 1680 Madison Avenue‚ Wooster‚ OH 44691‚ USA. *Corresponding author Tel.: +1 330-263-3963; Fax: +1 330-263-3686 E-mail address: grewal.4@osu.edu Abstract Conservation of naturally occurring belowground pest biocontrol services can enhance
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Chapter 2. Forest and Terrestrial Biodiversity of Mauritius 2.1 Overview of Biodiversity Mauritius has an area of 1‚865 km2‚ of which 30% is considered forested. The area of good quality native forest‚ (i.e. that with more than 50% native plant cover‚ Page & d’Argent 1997)‚ is estimated to cover less than 2% of the island (NEAP 1999‚ MWF unpublished‚ Fig.2.1). The rest consists of plantation forestry‚ deer-ranches or highly degraded vegetation invaded by alien plant and animal species. As a result
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