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Apocynaceae - Science topic
The dogbane plant family of the order Gentianales, subclass Asteridae, class Magnoliopsida. Members of the family have milky, often poisonous juice, smooth-margined leaves, and flowers in clusters.
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Calotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to southern Asia and North Africa
Choongan Caralluma
Caralluma Tuberculata
Urdu: Chongan
English: Bitter Cress
Pushto: Pamankay
It is a wild plant used as a food. Its taste is bitter.
It is found in Africa, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Southern Europe.

Apocynaceae, Creepers, Locality: AndhraPradesh.
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Any literature available on pretreatment offor Wrightia tinctoria seeds?
I need accessions (seed or leaf) of Apocynaceae taxa for DNA extraction. Does anybody know, how I can get them? Please give me addresses or links. I am ready for exchange my accessions (from Iran) to another countries.
I'm currently trying to find articles that deal with the identification of species within Apocynaceae using intergenic spacer regions and ITS.
Has anyone else had difficulty amplifying regions of taxa in the Apocynaceae. Specifically, I am trying to optimize the following primers: trnV-ndhC, rpl32-trnL, 18S (IGS)-18S (ETS), 26S-18S. Has anyone found optimal PCR cycling parameters that allow for good amplification of these regions among taxa WITHIN Apocynaceae?
This plant (a tropical weed) reportedly produces high levels of vindoline and catharanthine. (Plant Sci. 2001 Apr;160(5):971-977. Terpenoid indole alkaloid profile changes in Catharanthus pusillus during development. Zárate R, Dirks C, van der Heijden R, Verpoorte R.)