Baan Munim Twaij, Md. Nazmul Hasan
Plants are the source of various photochemicals; metabolites are used in medicinal and environmental sectors as well as being widely used in commercial and pharmaceutical products. Although they produce a number of medicinal products, either already on the market or under trial, the amounts obtained...
Abdullah Mohammad Shohael, Mohammad Ali, Kangjie Yu, Eun-Joo Hahn et al.
Md. Farid Hossain
This paper discusses nutritional values and importance of pineapple in the health aspects. Thailand, Philippines, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, China, Nigeria, Kenya, Indonesia, Hawaii, India, Bangladesh are the major pineapple producing countries. The demand of pineapple in the international market i...
Mosaddiqur Rahman, Abdullah As Sabir, Julakha Akter Mukta, Md. Mohibul Alam Khan et al.
Strawberry is an excellent source of natural antioxidants with high capacity of scavenging free radicals. This study evaluated the effects of two plant probiotic bacteria, Bacillus amylolequefaciens BChi1 and Paraburkholderia fungorum BRRh-4 on growth, fruit yield and antioxidant contents in strawbe...
Md. Abdullahil Baque, Sang-Hyun Moh, Eunjung Lee, Jian‐Jiang Zhong et al.
The increasing global demand for biomass of medicinal plant resources reflects the issues and crisis created by diminishing renewable resources and increasing consumer populations. Moreover, diverse usage of plants and reduced land for cultivation in the world accelerated the deficiency of plant res...
Shaikh Jamal Uddin, I. Darren Grice, Evelin Tiralongo
To investigate the cytotoxic effect of some Bangladeshi medicinal plant extracts, 16 Bangladeshi medicinal plants were successively extracted with n-hexane, dichloromethane, methanol and water. The methanolic and aqueous extracts were screened for cytotoxic activity against healthy mouse fibroblasts...
Han Zheng, Xueqing Fu, Jin Shao, Yueli Tang et al.
High-value active ingredients in medicinal plants have attracted research attention because of their benefits for human health, such as the antimalarial artemisinin, anticardiovascular disease tanshinones, and anticancer Taxol and vinblastine. Here, we review how hormones and environmental factors p...
Md. Mahadi Hasan, Milan Skalický, Mohammad Shah Jahan, Md. Nazmul Hossain et al.
In recent years, research on spermine (Spm) has turned up a lot of new information about this essential polyamine, especially as it is able to counteract damage from abiotic stresses. Spm has been shown to protect plants from a variety of environmental insults, but whether it can prevent the adverse...
MM Hossain, Ravi Kant, Pham Thanh Van, Budi Wınarto et al.
This review provides an informative and broad overview of orchid biotechnology, addressing several important aspects such as molecular systematics, modern breeding, in vitro morphogenesis, protoplast culture, flowering control, flower color, somaclonal variation, orchid mycorrhiza, pathogen resistan...
José Williams Gomes de Oliveira Filho, Muhammad Torequl Islam, Eunüs S. Ali, Shaikh Jamal Uddin et al.
Citrinin (CIT) is a mycotoxin which causes contamination in the food and is associated with different toxic effects. A web search on CIT has been conducted covering the timespan since 1946. The accumulated data indicate that CIT is produced by several fungal strains belonging to Penicillium, Aspergi...
H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, Md. Sohrab Hossain, Enih Rosamah, Nazirah A. Azli et al.
Panchali Chakraborty, Ashok Biswas, Susmita Dey, Tuli Bhattacharjee et al.
-dependent hydroxylation processes throughout all spheres of life. CYPs are crucial for the detoxification of xenobiotics in plants, insects, and other organisms. In addition to performing this function, CYPs serve as flexible catalysts and are essential for producing secondary metabolites, antioxid...
Jubayer Al Mahmud, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Anisur Rahman et al.
Chromium (Cr) toxicity is hazardous to the seed germination, growth, and development of plants. γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid and is involved in stress tolerance in plants. To investigate the effects of GABA in alleviating Cr toxicity, we treated eight-d-old mustard (Brassic...
Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Vinay Kumar, David J. Burritt, Masayuki Fujita et al.
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, MM Hossain, Madhu Sharma, Judit Dobránszki et al.
The successful ex vitro establishment of Dendrobium plantlets raised in vitro determines the quality of the end product (cut flowers or potted plants) in commercial production for economic gain. When in vitro Dendrobium plantlets are transplanted from the culture room to greenhouse conditions, they ...