Preliminary screening of endophytic fungi isolated from medicinal plants in MARDI Sessang, Sarawak for their bioactivity by Lim, Jeffrey Seng Heng, Radu, Son, Sadi, Tosiah

“…A total of 100 isolates of endophytic fungi were isolated from 19 species of medicinal plants collected at MARDI Station Sessang, Sarawak. A total of 55% of the endophytic fungi were isolated from the leaves while 45% from the branches. …”
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A Changing Role for the Arboretum of the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH) by Paulina Hechenleitner Vega

“…Changing the way in which the Arboretum manages its plant collections, so that it can play a more effective role in conservation, has been an important output of a Darwin Initiative funded project run in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. …”
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Passiflora Subgenus Astrophea by Rebecca Hilgenhof

“…Despite the problems these plants present in cultivation they are rewarding additios to any plant collection which in future is likely to be of great importance due to many being threatened in their natural habitats. …”
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Trials and tribulations of Neotropical plant taxonomy: Pace of tree species description by Manuel Luján, Rosalinda Medina Lemos, Eve Lucas, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Ghillean T. Prance, Terry D. Pennington, Jerzy Rzedowski, Daniel Santamaría‐Aguilar, Ella Serpell, Cynthia A. Sothers, Alexandre R. Zuntini

“…We argue that enhancing international collaboration and training opportunities in Latin American countries, as well as ensuring safe plant collection campaigns, are critical to complete the inventory of the Neotropical flora.…”
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Eco-biochemical responses, phytoremediation potential and molecular genetic analysis of Alhagi maurorum grown in metal-contaminated soils by Yasmin M. Heikal, Mohamed A. El-Esawi, Ravi Naidu, Maha M. Elshamy

“…The highest levels of expression of GST, G6PDH, 6PGD, nitrate reductase 1, and sulfate transporter genes were found in plants collected from site A1. However, auxin-induced protein exhibited its highest expression in plants collected from A2. …”
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The production of 7-methyljuglone, plumbagin and quercetin in wild and cultivated Drosera rotundifolia and Drosera intermedia by B. Baranyai, C. Bäcker, C. Reich, U. Lindequist

“…Concentrations did not differ between plants collected in the morning and in the afternoon. Drosera plants cultivated under semi-natural conditions are suitable as sources of raw materials for industrial pharmacological applications.…”
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Morphological and chemical variations of sweet flag (Acorus calamus L.) in the Czech and Finnish gene bank collection by K. Dušek, B. Galambosi, E. B. Hethelyi, K. Korany, K. Karlová

“…The aim of this study was to analyze both the morphological and chemical characteristics of Acorus calamus plants collected from the natural sites in the Czech Republic and to compare them to the sweet flags growing in Finland, Slovenia and Canada, which are concentrated in the Gene Bank collections in Finland. …”
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What survived from the PLANAFLORO Project: Angiosperms of Rondônia state, Brazil by Samuel Carleial, Narcísio Bigio

“…More than a decade after the PLANAFORO program concluded, the aim of the present work is to recover and share the information from the long-abandoned plant collections made during the project’s ecological-economic zoning phase. …”
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How to transform urban institutional green spaces into Ancillary Botanic Gardens to expand informal botanical learning opportunities in cities by M. Melhem, A. Forrest, Y. Abunnasr, R. Abi Ali, S. N. Talhouk

“…Online maps of 220 botanic gardens were reviewed to define types of plant collections and produce an exhaustive list of physical botanic garden elements. …”
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Evaluation of Medicinal Plant Trade Contribution, And Challenges Affecting Its Conservation in the Urban Livelihood of Ibadan and Ogbomoso Metropolis, Nigeria by R.T. Abisoye, V.O. Oyerinde, A.T. Atanda, A.O. Adekungbe, H. Adigun

“…The people mostly obtained their medicinal plants from the forest which came first in position, and grazing lands as second. 3) Plant collection for them is easy (because they do have information on where to get it) and difficult which is because of changes in land use and overexploitation (as the distance get farer). …”
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Introduction to the flora, Life form and plant geographical distribution of Deh Zaman iron mine in Bardascan (Razavi Khorasan province) by M Joharchi, M Ghorbanli, F Asadollahi

“…In this survey flora of Deh Zaman iron mine region in Bardascan. has been studied. The method of plant collection in this region was classical method of plant taxonomic studies. …”
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Distribution of S-alk(en)yl-l-cysteine Sulfoxides in Garlic (Allium sativum L.) by J. Horníčková, J. Velíšek, J. Ovesná, H. Stavělíková

“…The content of S-alk(en)yl-L-cysteine sulfoxides, important non-volatile precursors flavour-active compounds, was determined in four parts (roots, bulbs, false stems, and leaves) of six different clones of garlic (Allium sativum L.) plants collected during the whole of vegetation - in March, April, May, June, and July. …”
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Variation in Morphological Characteristics and Andrographolide Content in Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Nees of Central India by A.K. Pandey, A.K. Mandal

“…The differences in growth characteristics among the plants collected from different locations were not significant. …”
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Essential Oil Composition of Artemisia herba-alba from Southern Tunisia by Ferchichi Ali, Haouari Mohsen

“…The composition of the essential oil hydrodistilled from the aerial parts of 18 individual Artemisia herba-alba Asso. plants collected in southern Tunisia was determined by GC and GCMS analysis. …”
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The Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia, Northern Greece : by Eleni Maloupa, Nikos Krigas

“…The living native plant collections of the BBGK are presented quantitatively and the number of plant sections and displays designed in the BBGK and in the newly established Garden of Environmental Awareness are described. …”
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APHID INFESTATION OF DECORATIVE PERENNIALS by Barbara Wilkaniec, Hanna Piekarska-Boniecka

“… The many years’ study on species composition and harmfulness of aphids infesting perennials in the decorative plant collection Agricultural University in Poznań permited to ascertain occurrence of 23 aphid species on 66 species of decoratice perennials, representing 20 botanical families. …”
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How Not to Overwater a Rheophyte by Clive R. Lundquist, Rahayu S. Sukri, Faizah Metali

“…As a result, many appear to be underrepresented in ex situ living plant collections. Under the leaf-litter, lowland rainforest soils are typically surprisingly low in organic content (< 2%) and many of the smaller forest-floor-dwelling plants exist mainly on steep slopes of bare mineral soils with limited leaf-litter cover. …”
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Seventeenth-century plant lists and herbarium collections: a case study from the Oxford Physic Garden by Harris, S

“…Lists of pre-Linnaean polynomial names of the plants growing in seventeenth-century European living plant collections are commonplace. However, comparison among lists and interpretation of polynomials in terms of modern Linnaean binomials is a major challenge for researchers. …”

Identify the toxicological factors of a food poisoning caused by ingestion of Datura stramonium L. using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry by LIU Feng, ZHANG Yinhao, MA Mingyang, QIN Yingxu, XU Fei

“…Morphological identification was carried out on the suspicious plants collected on site， and the poisoning factors were determined by epidemiological investigation.ResultsOn the day of poisoning， tropane alkaloids， such as atropine， scopolamine and anisodamine， were detected in the wild vegetable cake and biological samples provided by the hospital. …”
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De l’objet à caractère végétal à l’objet ethnobotanique. Penser les collectes de plantes et objets en plante by Carole Brousse

“…The Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris houses 189 samples of medicinal plants collected during the twentieth century by various anthropologists and correspondents of the Musée de l’Homme. …”
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