Genetic Variation in Damaged Populations of Desf.

The Atlas Pistachio tree, Desf., has great importance in the ecological landscape of North Africa, due to its adaptive plasticity, as well as its use as a rootstock in the cultivation of the economically important species, L. The conservation and valuation of this species require sampling and an assessment of its genetic variability.

Potential Anticancer Activity of Crude Ethanol, Ethyl Acetate, and Water Extracts of on Human Osteosarcoma U2OS Cell Viability and Migration.

Medicinal plants are potential sources for a wide range of complex compounds with probable anticancer activity. Forssk. (), a medicinal plant found in the Eastern Mediterranean, has recently been gaining popularity as a cancer remedy; there is, however, a paucity of empirical evidence supporting this claim.

Molecular characterization of three common olive ( L.) cultivars in Palestine, using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers.

Eight accessions of olive trees from three common varieties in Palestine, Nabali Baladi, Nabali Mohassan and Surri, were genetically evaluated using five simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total of 17 alleles from 5 loci were observed in which 15 (88.2%) were polymorphic and 2 (11.

When do different C4 leaf anatomies indicate independent C4 origins? Parallel evolution of C4 leaf types in Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae).

Broad-scale phylogenetic studies give first insights in numbers, relationships, and ages of C4 lineages. They are, however, generally limited to a model that treats the evolution of the complex C4 syndrome in different lineages as a directly comparable process. Here, we use a resolved and well-sampled phylogenetic tree of Camphorosmeae, based on three chloroplast and one nuclear marker and on leaf anatomical traits to infer a more detailed picture of C4 leaf-type evolution in this lineage.