botany

Visitors also learn medicinal uses of therapeutic plants during immersive experience in the tranquil space.

BackgroundSchinusmolle L. (Anacardiaceae), the Andean “molle” or “mulli,” is among the longest-used trees of western South America. Despite more than 3 decades of pharmacological research, reports remain heterogeneous and no reproducible phytopharmaceutical candidate has emerged—an inconsistency that may arise less from insufficient experimentation than from the biological object never having bee…

Part 2 of our botanical jaunt to Ben Lawers, featuring a clamber up Beinn Ghlas and eventually, Ben Lawers itself. The post Botanising Ben Lawers – Part 2 appeared first on James Common .

Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks strikingly unlike a typical plant. The newly named Thismia daemona is known from fewer than 50 individuals and may already be critically endangered.

Paeonia lactiflora Pall. (P. lactiflora) is a medicinal plant with considerable economic value. During its growth, root secondary metabolism and rhizosphere microbes interact closely; however, no systematic study has examined microbiome and metabolome dynamics under different planting systems and harvest times. To address this, we employed amplicon sequencing for microbial diversity and untargete…

BackgroundThe root tuber of Curcuma wenyujin Y. H. Chen et C. Ling (taxonomically a synonym of the accepted species Curcuma aromatica Salisb.; hereafter C. wenyujin) has been prescribed in Chinese medicine for over a millennium to promote bile flow and alleviate jaundice. While its lipophilic constituents have received considerable attention, the bioactive potential of its water-soluble polysacch…

A tiny deletion in a single gene can dramatically reshape the appearance--and development--of crape myrtle. Researchers have identified a 32-base-pair deletion in LiBBX16 that drives the dominant purple-leaf trait in Lagerstroemia indica, a popular ornamental tree valued for its colorful summer foliage. The altered allele, LiBBX16p, promotes strong anthocyanin accumulation while also affecting se…

A tiny deletion in a single gene can dramatically reshape the appearance--and development--of crape myrtle. Researchers have identified a 32-base-pair deletion in LiBBX16 that drives the dominant purple-leaf trait in Lagerstroemia indica, a popular ornamental tree valued for its colorful summer foliage. The altered allele, LiBBX16p, promotes strong anthocyanin accumulation while also affecting se…

A tiny deletion in a single gene can dramatically reshape the appearance--and development--of crape myrtle. Researchers have identified a 32-base-pair deletion in LiBBX16 that drives the dominant purple-leaf trait in Lagerstroemia indica, a popular ornamental tree valued for its colorful summer foliage. The altered allele, LiBBX16p, promotes strong anthocyanin accumulation while also affecting se…