| pharmacologic and phytochemical study of spartium junceum l. | | 1975 | 827470 |
| evaluation of the antifertility activity of the broom spartium junceum in the mammalian male. | male adult rabbits and rats treated with spartium junceum showed a significant decrease in fertility, demonstrated by a lower number of pregnancies. the target of the drug seems to be the acrosomal protease system, the activity of which appears greatly reduced, while the morphology of testicular cells and epididymal spermatozoa is only partially affected. the antifertility effect is completely reversible. | 1993 | 8081803 |
| correlation between male fertility and acrosin-like protease activity in rats treated with spartium junceum. | intraperitoneal injections of extracts of spartium junceum in adult male rats were shown to reduce the rate of fertility and acrosin enzyme activity. for the latter the drug effects could be divided into two phases: in the first stage a significant increase in proteolytic activity was observed in all experimental animals examined; and in the second stage, there was a general decrease of up to 50% in enzyme hydrolytic properties. there is a notable difficulty in correlating the acrosin activity a ... | 1993 | 8081828 |
| a saponin with anti-ulcerogenic effect from the flowers of spartium junceum. | a new oleanene-type saponin with potent anti-ulcerogenic activity was isolated from the flowers of spartium junceum. the various techniques of nmr spectral analysis, viz. 1h, 13c, dept, c-h cosy, h-h cosy, coloc, noesy, hmbc, hmqc, in conjunction with ei- and fab-mass spectrometry, revealed that the structure of the isolated saponin was 3-o-[alpha-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-->2) -o-beta-d-glucopyranosyl-(1-->2)-beta-d-glucuronopyranosyl]-3 beta,16beta,22 beta,24-tetrahydroxy-olean-12-ene and named as ... | 1999 | 10423862 |
| screening of turkish anti-ulcerogenic folk remedies for anti-helicobacter pylori activity. | the anti-helicobacter pylori effect of the extracts and fractions obtained from seven turkish plants, which are used in folk medicine for the treatment of gastric ailments including peptic ulcers, were studied against one standard strain and eight clinical isolates of h. pylori by using the agar dilution method. flowers of cistus laurifolius and spartium junceum, cones of cedrus libani, herbs and flowers of centaurea solstitialis ssp. solstitialis, fruits of momordica charantia, herbaceous parts ... | 1999 | 10473175 |
| anti-ulcerogenic effects of spartium junceum flowers on in vivo test models in rats. | flowers of spartium junceum l. (fabaceae) are used for the treatment of gastric ulcers in turkish folk medicine. through bioassay-guided fractionation using chemical and chromatographical means and water immersion and restraint-induced stress ulcer model in rats, a saponin fraction was determined as the potent anti-ulcerogenic ingredient. the active fraction was also highly effective in preventing ethanol- and pyloric ligation-induced gastric lesions as well as inhibiting gastric secretion volum ... | 2000 | 10837986 |
| bradyrhizobium sp. nodulating the mediterranean shrub spanish broom (spartium junceum l.). | the molecular diversity of 25 strains of rhizobia, isolated in sicily from root nodules of the mediterranean shrubby legume spanish broom (spartium junceum l.), is presented in relation to the known rhizobial reference strains. | 2002 | 11849323 |
| 'candidatus phytoplasma spartii', 'candidatus phytoplasma rhamni' and 'candidatus phytoplasma allocasuarinae', respectively associated with spartium witches'-broom, buckthorn witches'-broom and allocasuarina yellows diseases. | spartium witches'-broom (spawb), buckthorn witches'-broom (bwb) and allocasuarina yellows (alloy) are witches'-broom and yellows diseases of spartium junceum (spanish broom), rhamnus catharticus (buckthorn) and allocasuarina muelleriana (slaty she-oak), respectively. these diseases are associated with distinct phytoplasmas. the spawb, bwb and alloy phytoplasmas share <97.5 % 16s rdna sequence similarity with each other and with other known phytoplasmas, including the closely related phytoplasmas ... | 2004 | 15280265 |
| folk phytotherapeutical plants from maratea area (basilicata, italy). | field ethnobotanical survey was undertaken for the period of 2002-2003 in the tyrrhenian part of the basilicata region of southern italy. data of 56 species of plants belonging to 29 families where gathered through interviews; among the species, 47 are used in human therapy, 6 as insect repellents, 15 in veterinary medicine, 1 for its ichthyotoxic properties and 3 for magic therapeutic purposes. the most important findings in ethnomedicine relate to nasturtium officinale (renal colic, liver dise ... | 2005 | 15878246 |
| anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of spartium junceum l. flower extracts: a preliminary study. | our objective was to study the anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity of extract of spartium junceum l. flowers. samples of flowers were collected from wild plants, dried, powdered, and extracted with hexane and methanol. the extracts were evaporated to dryness and then suspended in suitable solvent. they were then tested for anti-inflammatory activity in the carrageenin rat paw edema test and for analgesic activity in the randall and selitto mechanical pressure test and in the tail-flick test ... | 2006 | 17004903 |
| stress tolerance, genetic analysis and symbiotic properties of root-nodulating bacteria isolated from mediterranean leguminous shrubs in central spain. | nine root-nodulating bacterial isolates were obtained from the leguminous shrubs spartium junceum, adenocarpus hispanicus, cytisus purgans, cytisus laburnuum, retama sphaerocarpa and colutea arborescens in areas of central spain. a poliphasic approach analyzing phenotypic, symbiotic and genetic properties was used to study their diversity and characterize them in relation to mediterranean conditions. stress tolerance assays revealed marked variations in salinity, extreme ph and cadmium tolerance ... | 2009 | 18784916 |
| cytisus villosus from northeastern algeria is nodulated by genetically diverse bradyrhizobium strains. | fifty-one rhizobial strains isolated from root nodules of cytisus villosus growing in northeastern algeria were characterized by genomic and phenotypic analyses. isolates were grouped into sixteen different patterns by pcr-rapd. the phylogenetic status of one representative isolate from each pattern was examined by multilocus sequence analyses of four housekeeping genes (16s rrna, glnii, reca, and atpd) and one symbiotic gene (nodc). analysis of 16s rrna gene sequences showed that all the isolat ... | 2014 | 24756908 |
| spanish broom (spartium junceum l.) fibers impregnated with vancomycin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles as new antibacterial wound dressing: preparation, characterization and antibacterial activity. | in this work, we propose as new wound dressing, the spanish broom fibers impregnated with vancomycin (vm) loaded chitosan nanoparticles. spanish broom fibers were extracted by patented method dicode and the morphological, physical and mechanical properties were investigated. chitosan nanoparticles were prepared by ionic gelation using different weight ratios between chitosan (ch) and tripolyphosphate (tpp). nanoparticles were characterized in terms of size, zeta potential, yield, encapsulation e ... | 2017 | 27931851 |
| flash pyrolysis of forestry residues from the portuguese central inland region within the framework of the biorefina-ter project. | the feasibility of the valorization by flash pyrolysis of forest shrub wastes, namely bushes (cytisus multiflorus, spartium junceum, acacia dealbata and pterospartum tridentatum) has been studied in a conical spouted bed reactor operating at 500 °c, with a continuous biomass feed and char removal. high bio-oil yields in the 75-80 wt.% range have been obtained for all of the materials, with char yields between 16 and 23 wt.% and low gas yields (4-5 wt.%). bio-oils are composed mainly of water (ac ... | 2013 | 23266853 |
| flower power: its association with bee power and floral functional morphology in papilionate legumes. | a test was made of the hypothesis that papilionate legume flowers filter pollinators according to their ability to exert strength to open flowers to access rewards. in addition, interactions with pollen vectors were expected to explain the structural complexity of the architecture of these flowers since operative flower strength may be determined by a combination of morphological traits which form part of an intrafloral functional module. | 2011 | 21821623 |
| differences in foliage affect performance of the lappet moth, streblote panda: implications for species fitness. | implications for adults' fitness through the foliage effects of five different host plants on larval survival and performance of the lappet moth, streblote panda hübner (lepidoptera: lasiocampidae), as well as their effect on species fitness were assayed. larvae were reared under controlled laboratory conditions on excised foliage. long-term developmental experiments were done using first instar larvae to adult emergence, and performance experiments were done using fifth instar larvae. survival, ... | 2010 | 21062148 |
| snowpack, fire, and forest disturbance: interactions affect montane invasions by non-native shrubs. | montane regions worldwide have experienced relatively low plant invasion rates, a trend attributed to increased climatic severity, low rates of disturbance, and reduced propagule pressure relative to lowlands. manipulative experiments at elevations above the invasive range of non-native species can clarify the relative contributions of these mechanisms to montane invasion resistance, yet such experiments are rare. furthermore, global climate change and land use changes are expected to cause decr ... | 2015 | 25482316 |
| [spartium junceum (spanish broom) poisoning]. | | 2014 | 24582126 |
| spartium junceum aromatic water: chemical composition and antitumor activity. | the purpose of this study was to analyse the chemical composition of spartium junceum l. (also known as spanish broom) aromatic water and to evaluate its cytotoxic activity against a series of human cancer cell lines (melanoma: rpmi 7932; leukemia: k562; breast cancer cell: mcf7-bart and mcf7-iclc, colon adenocarcinoma: sw480). the results show that the aromatic water was cytotoxic toward the tumor cell lines analyzed (rpmi 7932, k562, mcf7-bart, mcf7-iclc, sw480), while it did not appreciably a ... | 2012 | 22428268 |
| a new physical-chemical process for the efficient production of cellulose fibers from spanish broom (spartium junceum l.). | a novel and efficient method for the extraction of cellulose fibers from spanish broom (spartium junceum l.) is presented. the method is based on the sequential combination between an initial chemical stage (alkaline digestion) and a subsequent physical-chemical stage, consisting of compression with hot air in an autoclave followed by rapid decompression (dicode process, digestion-compression-decompression). the alkaline mother liquor deriving from the initial digestion step can be conveniently ... | 2010 | 19734042 |
| the response of spartium junceum roots to slope: anchorage and gene factors. | plant anchorage is governed by complex, finely regulated mechanisms that occur at a morphological, architectural and anatomical level. spanish broom (spartium junceum) is a woody plant frequently found on slopes--a condition that affects plant anchorage. this plant grows throughout the mediterranean area where it plays an important role in preventing landslides. spanish broom seedlings respond promptly to slope by altering stem and root morphology. the aim of this study was to investigate the me ... | 2006 | 16352708 |
| lectins for polyagglutinable red cells: cytisus scoparius, spartium junceum and vicia villosa. | three seed sources of lectins which are of potential value in the classification of red cell polyagglutinability are described. | 1980 | 7379465 |
| fungal planet description sheets: 281-319. | novel species of fungi described in the present study include the following from south africa: alanphillipsia aloeicola from aloe sp., arxiella dolichandrae from dolichandra unguiscati, ganoderma austroafricanum from jacaranda mimosifolia, phacidiella podocarpi and phaeosphaeria podocarpi from podocarpus latifolius, phyllosticta mimusopisicola from mimusops zeyheri and sphaerulina pelargonii from pelargonium sp. furthermore, barssia maroccana is described from cedrus atlantica (morocco), codinae ... | 2014 | 25737601 |