Mullein leaf (Verbascum ) is a common weed used for centuries in herbal medicine. Herbalists often use mullein flowers and leaves to treat respiratory problems, digestive issues, and skin conditions, ...

Green Leaf Australia Group Pty Ltd, an irrigator located at Clybucca in the Kempsey region, was sentenced along with one of its directors in the NSW Sydney Downing Centre Local Court last week ...

IN silkworms, it has been found that tyrosine is used not only for biosynthesis of the silk proteins 1, but also to form melanin pigments, but little is known of its origin. The present work was ...

In human studies, powdered leaf supplements were mostly used. These effects may be due to several plant compounds, such as quercetin, kaempferol, glucomoringin, chlorogenic acid, and isothiocyanate.

Mulberry leaves were collected from the Mulberry leaf Garden of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Coomassie brilliant Blue G-250 was purchased from Shanghai Yuan Ye Biotechnology Co., Ltd.; ...

Some sea slugs sequester chloroplasts from algal food in their intestinal cells and photosynthesize for months. This phenomenon, kleptoplasty, poses a question of how the chloroplast retains its ...

Plant-eating insects use their sense of taste to decide where to feed and where to lay their eggs. They do this using taste sensors called gustatory receptors which reside in the antennae and legs of ...

Chl a and Chl b absorb sunlight at different wavelengths (Chl a mainly absorbs red-orange light and Chl b mainly absorbs blue-purple light), leading to the assumption that the total amount leaf ...