The influence of floral traits on insect foraging behaviour on medicinal plants in an urban garden of eastern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 200-207
Author(s):  
Pushan Chakraborty ◽  
Poulami Adhikary Mukherjee ◽  
Supratim Laha ◽  
Salil Kumar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Floral Traits ◽  
Bipartite Network ◽  
Pollinator Visitation ◽  
Pollinator Behaviour ◽  
Native Flora ◽  
Urban Garden ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Plant Pollinator

Abstract Understanding the pollination biology of medicinal plants and their important insect pollinators is necessary for their conservation. The present study explored the complex interactions between pollinator visitation and effect of floral traits on pollinator behaviour on seven medicinal plant species grown in an urban garden in West Bengal, an eastern Indian state. The observations revealed 30 morphospecies of insect flower visitors (Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera) that touched floral reproductive parts on the selected plants during visitation. Additionally, it was observed that floral traits (e.g., corolla length and corolla opening diameter) were important predictors of the behaviour of insects when visiting the flowers. Plant–pollinator interactions were analysed using a bipartite network approach which explored the important links between insect and plants in the network revealing the key interactions, and species which are crucial to system maintenance. This piece of work contributes to our ability to understand and maintain a stable medicinal plant–pollinator network which will support efforts to conserve native flora and insects.

scholarly journals Supply of Medicinal Raw Materials

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 206-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Dejouhanet
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Plant Sources

The growth of the manufacturing sector in Ayurveda seems to be slowing down in the Indian state of Kerala as the prices of raw materials have increased inordinately, challenging the sustainability of ayurvedic drug production. Several reasons are responsible; in particular, the dwindling availability of plants, the excessive complexity of supply chains, the growing distances between plant sources and manufacturing units, and the control over the medicinal plant market by powerful middlemen. Substitution, adulteration, and quality control have become sensitive issues and may eventually damage the reputation of the ayurvedic drug sector in a context of high competition between manufacturers. Cultivating medicinal plants is considered to be the main solution for solving the supply crisis, but manufacturers’ demands are often too constraining for cultivators and this may not be such a viable alternative in a context of continuous modernisation efforts for production efficiency.

ETHNOVETERINARY MEDICINAL USES OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS ON PNEUMONIA BY THE GUJJAR AND PAHARI TRIBES OF POONCH DISTRICT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIL AHMED KHAN ◽  
RAJINDER PAUL
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Care Facilities

Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir is a reservoir of enormous natural resources including the wealth of medicinal plants. The present paper deals with 12 medicinal plant species belonging to 8 genera of angiosperms used on pneumonia in cattle such as cows, sheep, goats and buffaloes in different areas of Poonch district. Due to poverty and nonavailability of modern health care facilities, the indigenous people of the area partially or fully depend on surrounding medicinal plants to cure the different ailments of their cattles. Further research on modern scientific line is necessary to improve their efficacy, safety and validation of the traditional knowledge.

NAMING OF BASOTHO MEDICINAL PLANTS: SEMANTIC CONNECTION TO THEIR REMEDIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Possa ◽  
P Khotso
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Traditional Medicinal Plants ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Medical Plants

The indigenous knowledge of the Basotho makes it simple for this speech community to name their traditional medicinal plants in such a way that they are meaningful; this could also be viewed as an empowerment technique, especially in the economic sphere. Their medicinal plants names seem to be idiomatic and to express certain philosophies of the Basotho society. Creativity is observable in this kind of naming, and many names allude to the kind of remedy that is associated with the medicinal plant. It is therefore the interest of this paper to consider the names of medical plants among the Basotho whose names allude to the remedy they provide. The names of Sesotho medicinal plants and the reasoning of the Basotho in general behind the name and the use of each medicinal plant will be discussed in this article. This paper will further preserve and promote the use of Basotho traditional medicines for the future generation.

scholarly journals Medicinal Plant Extracts

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 838
Author(s):  
Laura Grațiela Vicaș ◽  
Mariana Eugenia Mureșan
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Medicinal Plant Extracts

The therapeutic benefits of medicinal plants are well known and have been collected as important data on ethnomedicine [...]

Assessment of Calendula officinal growing in Iraq

2021 ◽  
pp. 5187-5189
Author(s):  
Noor Ali ◽  
Widad M K Al-Ani ◽  
Ibrahim S. Al-Jobouri
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Chemical Constituents ◽  
Plant Constituents ◽  
Time Of Collection

Evaluation of Iraqi medicinal plants is very crucial to help people avoid the use of herbs without prior knowledge which results in many side effects and sometimes even leads to death. The plant constituents vary according to season, weather and type of soil, therefore it is necessary to evaluate the chemical constituents and determine the time of collection of medicinal plants. In this research evaluation of the medicinal plant Calendula officinal grown in Iraq was performed by measuring the quantity of hyperoside found in the plant together with macroscopical and microscopical evaluation of the plant.

Study of Contro-vercial Aspect of Cleome viscosa, Linn. and Gynandropsis gynandra, Linn. – A literary Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharavati Goroba Kamble
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Bacopa Monnieri ◽  
Single Plant ◽  
Classical Text ◽  
Clitoria Ternatea ◽  
Gynandropsis Gynandra ◽  
Second Category ◽  
Cleome Viscosa

Controversy in identification of medicinal plants has been a problem since ages. When we refer the classical text like Caraka Samhita, it becomes important to know the exact medicinal plant mentioned in the formulation or treatment. The controversy regarding a plant is found to be of two types mainly. Single classical plant having multiple botanical identities eg. Parpata, Rasna, Amlavetasa, Bharangi, Pasanabheda Botanically identified single plant with multiple classical identities eg. Bacopa monnieri, Clitoria ternatea The plants of this study fall under second category. The plants C.viscosa, Linn. and G.gynandra, Linn. are having multiple classical identities like Ajagandha, Tilaparni, Suvarcala, Brahmasuvarcala and Adityabhakta. An effort is made to resolve the controversy by comparing the information of these plants from classical Ayurvedic texts and Modern texts in this article.   Method: Compilation of all the data from Literature Comparision of classical data with viscosa and G.gynandra characteristics Conclusion is made on the basis of observations   Observation and Conclusion: Comparisons of all the above discussed classical plants with Cloeme viscosa, Linn. and Gynandropsis gynandra, Linn. shows Ajagandha being similar to Gynandropsis and Tilaparni being similar to Cleome.  

Morphological and phylogenetic resolution of Arthrinium from medicinal plants in Yunnan, including A. cordylines and A. pseudomarii spp. nov.

Mycotaxon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Tong-Zheng Chen ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Bing Ming ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Hui Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Sequence Analyses ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Plant Hosts ◽  
Phylogenetic Resolution

Twenty-one strains of Arthrinium were cultured from leaf samples of ten medicinal plant hosts in Yunnan Province, China. Morphological and multi-locus ITS+TUB+TEF1 sequence analyses revealed that the strains represented two previously described species (A. paraphaeospermum and A. rasikravindrae) and two new species: Arthrinium cordylines, which produces subglobose conidia that are shorter and wider than A. aureum but larger than A. hydei, and Arthrinium pseudomarii, which produces subglobose to ellipsoid conidia narrower than A. hispanicum, A. marii, and A. mediterranei.

scholarly journals Medicinal plant extracts on the control of Diabrotica speciosa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.S. Barbosa ◽  
G.L.D. Leite ◽  
E.R. Martins ◽  
V.A. D'avila ◽  
V.M Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Soybean Oil ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Chenopodium Ambrosioides ◽  
Insecticidal Effect ◽  
Medicinal Plant Extracts ◽  
Diabrotica Speciosa ◽  
Artemisia Verlotorum

The aim of this study was to evaluate the insecticidal effect of aqueous, alcoholic, and oil extracts from leaves of eight medicinal plants against Diabrotica speciosa prepared at five concentrations. The extracts that used commercial soybean oil as solvent showed the highest D. speciosa mortality due to the solvent itself, regardless of the used plants and their concentrations. Thus, commercial soybean oil was discarded as solvent since at these volumes it would cause serious phytotoxicity problems. After 24 hours of exposure of the pest to the extracts, the highest D. speciosa mortality values were observed for Copaifera langsdorfii and Chenopodium ambrosioides extracts, both in 5% alcohol, and Artemisia verlotorum, in 10% water. However, in the last mortality assessment (48 h), C. langsdorfii extract in 5% alcohol showed higher mortality of this pest, followed by C. ambrosioides extract in 5% alcohol, compared to the remaining plants.

scholarly journals Variation in floret size explains differences in wild bee visitation to cultivated sunflowers

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 498-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe M. Portlas ◽  
Jonathan R. Tetlie ◽  
Deirdre Prischmann-Voldseth ◽  
Brent S. Hulke ◽  
Jarrad R. Prasifka
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Honey Bee ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Inbred Lines ◽  
Floral Traits ◽  
Pollinator Visitation ◽  
Wild Bee ◽  
Residual Variation ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Nectar Rewards

AbstractWild and managed bees are needed to move sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) pollen, both to create hybrid seed and to encourage high, consistent yields when those hybrids are subsequently grown. Among floral traits that influence bee preference, floret size may be critical, as the depth of the corolla affects the accessibility of nectar. Sampling and observation of inbred maintainer (HA) lines were used to assess variation in floret size, and to measure any effects of floret size on pollinator visitation. Among 100 inbreds sampled, there was significant variation among the lines, with floret lengths of 6.8–9.9 mm. Floret length, measured before anthesis, was closely related to corolla depth during anthesis and was consistent between 2 years (environments). Pollinator observations on 30 inbred lines showed floret size explained a majority (52%) of the variation in wild bee preference, with a reduction in floret length of 2 mm more than doubling pollinator activity. Though honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colonies were located ≈ 60 m from the plots, near-zero honey bee activity in the sunflowers precluded an assessment of how strongly this managed pollinator is affected by floret length. Production of inbreds and hybrids with smaller florets could enhance sunflower pollination, but genetic markers for floret size are needed to facilitate selection, and an understanding of potential trade-offs also is required. Information on variation and heritability of other traits, such as pollen and nectar rewards, could help explain residual variation in wild bee visitation to sunflowers.

scholarly journals Perancangan dan Pembangunan Taman Apotek Hidup pada Lanskap Industri, Kabupaten Kudus

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Alfred Jansen Sutrisno ◽  
Hermanto
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
The Family ◽  
Park Design

Gardener in the industrial landscape has limited knowledge and experience in managing the environment. Meanwhile, there are areas in the industrial landscape that can be developed into thematic parks. The purpose of this activity is to train gardener in designing and constructing parks that have good visual quality. The living pharmacy park is a concept park that is trying to be developed. This park is dominated by a collection of medicinal plants or often also called the family medicinal plant garden (Tanaman Obat Keluarga - TOGA). The method used are a workshop and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The area of land that is used as a place for design and construction activities is 720.3 m2. The design process starts from an inventory of existing conditions, then analyzed and synthesized to get the appropriate park design. After the design results were agreed upon, a park was developed. Park development must be in accordance with the results of the design. However, the obstacle faced is that there are some problems that are not properly inventoried and found during development. Even though, the results of the construction of the park are still quite in accordance with the results of the design. Keywords: Gardener, Living Pharmacy Park, Medicinal Plant, Visual Quality

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