January 2022

Noni essential oil associated with adjuvants in the production of phytoalexins and in the control of soybean anthracnosis

Amongst the most important agricultural products in Brazil, the soybean stands out, mainly as an export good. One of the end-of-cycle diseases, Anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum truncatum (Schwein.) leads to severe damage to grain quality and yield. The use of natural products as a substitute for conventional pesticides for plant diseases control is an alternative found to reduce food contamination and...

Author(s): Natália Pinto e Nosé, Mateus Sunti Dalcin, Bruna Letícia Dias, Rodrigo Solci Toloy, Dalmarcia Souza Carlos Mourão, Marcos Giongo, Alex Cangussu, Sabrina Helena da Cruz Araújo and Gil Rodrigues dos Santos  

January 2022

Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants utilized by forest edge communities in southern Sierra Leone

A total of 128 medicinal plant species belonging to 71 genera and 46 families were identified and used to treat 42 human ailments. Euphorbiaceae was the leading family with 14 species, followed by Rubiaceae and Leg-Caesalpiniaceae with 12 and 8 species, respectively. Seven species (Coffea stenophylla, Garcinia afzelii, Mitragyna stipulosa, Irvingia gabonensis, Milicia regia, Nauclea diderrichii and Nesogordonia...

Author(s): Jonathan Johnny, Aiah Lebbie and Richard Wadsworth