Ethnopharmacological relevance: Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of non-specific inflammatory bowel disease that mainly affects the colon. Recently, UC has become a significant social and economic problem worldwide. Baitouweng decoction (BD), a traditional Chinese medicine described in the "Treatise...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Comprising of about 30 species, the genus Toxicodendron (Anacardiaceae) are mainly distributed in East Asia and North America. Among them, 13 species have been traditionally used as folk medicines in Asia and other parts of the world to treat blood diseases, abnormal ...

Severe incidence of tea mosquito bug Helopeltis antonii Signoret (Hemiptera: Miridae) on neem Azadirachta indica A. Juss was noticed during 2021-22 in northern parts of Karnataka. The incidence level (expressed in damage score) varied from 1 to 4 across the surveyed locations, and mean damage score ...

Ambarella (Spondias dulcis) tropical fruit showing typical galling symptoms caused by root-knot nematode was discovered in the orchard located in Phaya Yen, Pak Chong district Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. The nematode was identified based on morphological and molecular information and its...

The spice sumac is prepared from the fruit of the small deciduous tree Rhus coriaria L. (family Anacardiaceae), which is cultivated mainly in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, and the Middle East. The genus Rhus contains well over a hundred individual species of flowering plants, some of...

Bay leaf, or Bay laurel, is a culinary herb obtained from the small evergreen tree Laurus nobilis L. (family Lauraceae). This plant is native to the Mediterranean region and is widely cultivated in warm climates of the southern United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. As a ...

'Masui Dauphine' (synonym of 'San Piero') fig trees in a study field were found to have grown progressively weaker over the last five years, and showed typical symptoms of soil sickness. Compost produced from the branches and leaves of roadside trees (about 0.4 m³.m^-2) was used to mulch the ground...

The current report reveals the assessment results of Azadirachta indica Dieback disease in the Narayanpet District of 12 locations as mandals, Telangana State, India. The die back disease has damaged hugely in Telangana State. In the present documentation Narayanpet Dist. was selected as study...

In a forest nursery located in Brazil, seedlings of Khaya spp. were observed showing leaf spot symptoms. From these symptoms, the phytopathogen Colletotrichum nymphaeae were isolated and characterized based on morphological, molecular and pathogenicity characteristics. To the best of our knowledge, ...

Eucalyptus production mainly destined to cellulose pulp production has expanded strongly in the last 30 years in Uruguay. Eucalyptus smithii has recently emerged as a promising species for cellulose pulp production. However, an average of 40% of young trees die during the first and second summer of ...