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The good news is that with a little knowledge, no pet (or their concerned owner) needs to suffer from poisonous plants.
Whether the sun shines all day or your yard has plenty of shade, these summer container flowers will make your garden bloom.
Protective effect of Catharanthus roseus plant extracts against endosulfan and its isomers induced impacts on non-targeted insect model, Drosophila melanogaster and live brain cell imaging.
Quantitative (growth and physiological) and qualitative (sensory) analyses showed that white ‘Boa noite’ (Catharanthus roseus) plants can be produced using saline water of 2.5 dS m-1, and plants of ...
One such species is Catharanthus roseus, commonly known as ‘periwinkle’, which contains alkaloids which are widely used in the treatment of breast, lung, and testicular cancer, as well as childhood ...
The Nayantara flower, also known as the Madagascar Periwinkle or by its scientific name Catharanthus roseus, is a plant that both botanists and medical professionals have fancied.This lowly flower ...
Gond elucidated that vinblastine, a widely prescribed anticancer medication, is conventionally derived from leaves of the catharanthus roseus plant, commonly known as Sadabahar.
It's rather strange that plants make cancer chemotherapy drugs don’t you think? It's not just one example. There is 'vinblastine' and 'vincristine', which are derived from the Madagascan periwinkle ...
And the plant continues to develop in modern research labs; Broccolini, a cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli (also known as Chinese kale), was introduced in 1993.