Resmi L.

University of Calicut · Department of Botany

In Ayurveda, polyherbal preparations appear to be an unavoidable medicinal approach. Many polyherbal medicines are prepared by local medical practitioners from rural regions of Thiruvananthapuram district, who follow their ethnic customs. The current study was an investigation of their medical system in order to determine the types of plants and pl...

The widely cultivated pepper, Capsicum spp., important as a vegetable and spice crop worldwide, is one of the most diverse crops. Considerable morphological variation, especially in fruit shape, color, and size exist in the genus. The present study analysed the intra and interspecific morphological variations of three species of Capsicum (Solanacea...

Quantification of CO2 sequestration by Campus Trees IJEP 42(7): 792-805 : Vol. 42 Issue. 7 (July 2022) A.R. Arya1 and L. Resmi2* 1. Christian College, Department of Botany, Kattakada-695 572, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 2. University of Calicut, Department of Botany, Malappuram – 673 635, Kerala Abstract Enhancing carbon sequestration in...

Curcuma zedoaria Rosc., an important member of the family Zingiberaceae possesses antioxidant and anti-inflammatory curcuminoids in it and has wide applications in the treatment of various diseases like diarrhoea, stomach ache, ulcer, cancer etc. This medicinal herb faces acute narrowing of natural populations due to overexploitation and human acti...

South India is well-known for its diverse Musa genotypes and diploid landraces, which can be found in cultivated or wild pockets. Young and healthy sword suckers of Musa acuminata landrace Chingan (AA) were collected from Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, and used as explants for in vitro regeneration in the current study. After 60 days of culture, MS medium...

Identification of flora is necessary for a defined region, as it plays an important role in maintaining the identity of the area. An inventory of the plant species in Kukkiripara, Maranalloor panchayath, Kattakada was made during 2019-2020. A total of 110 plant species belonging to 37 families were recorded. The detailed key for the species was pre...

Drought stress is the most adverse crop environmental stress, accounting for 70% of potential agriculture yield losses worldwide. The present study attempted to characterize the drought stress responses in two species of Capsicum, viz, C. annum and C. frutescens at morphological, physiological and biochemical level. Plant height, number of nodes, l...

Allelopathy is a biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the growth, survival and reproduction of other organisms. There may be beneficial (positive) or detrimental (negative) allelopathic effects on the target organisms. Chemicals inhibit the growth of some species at lower concentration may stim...

Allelopathy is the inhibition of the growth of a plant by the allelochemicals, produced by a nearby plant, into their shared environment. The present study was designed to examine the allelopathic inhibition of aqueous leachate of Heavea brasiliensis and Quisqualis indica leaves on the germination and early seedling growth of test plant material, V...

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Ten STMS loci were used to genotype thirty eight Musa cultivars representing six genome groups (AA, AB, BB, AAA, AAB and ABB). Number of alleles per locus ranged from 1 to 4 with a total of 27 alleles with an average of 2.7 alleles per primer pair. Moderate levels of average genetic diversity was observed (HE=0.42). Observed number of alleles per l...

Inflorescence apices are suitable explants for the rapid in vitro propagation of Musa spp. However, the diploid and triploid banana cultivars showed different in vitro responses with respect to the hormone combinations in Murashige and Skoog medium. The diploid cultivar (Sannachenkadali, AA) induced a maximum number of multiple shoots in 8.9μM 6-be...