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Nomenclature: English not Latin in botanical reports

The decision at last year's International Botanical Congress to allow the use of either Latin or English for botanical descriptions and diagnoses was hailed as a triumph by the community. The ruling c...

Harmonization Eyed For EU Botanical Claim Regs, With Tighter Scrutiny

Two options are touted for botanical claims legislation in the EU – one would continue with the existing process under the European Food Safety Authority’s evaluation of claims for all types of su...

Missouri Botanical Garden receives $3 million from Monsanto Company toward World Flora

(Missouri Botanical Garden) The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Mo., US has received a generous three-year, three million dollar gift from Monsanto Company to support its work on the developme...

Frutarom botanical raw materials technology soon to begin US production

Frutarom Health patented HyperPure technology deployed at its North Bergen, New Jersey, US plant, will process botanical raw materials from mid November 2012.

Herbicide resistance-endowing ACCase gene mutations in hexaploid wild oat (Avena fatua): insights into resistance evolution in a hexaploid species

More GMP Warnings Likely As Botanicals Fail On Adulteration Awareness

FDA supplement program official Daniel Fabricant says firms that fail to use appropriate tests for botanical ingredients are at risk of eliciting warning letters and other agency actions for violating...

Nestlé forms JV to develop botanical drugs with Chi-Med

Nestlé's health science subsidiary, set up last year, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Hutchison China MediTech (Chi-Med) aimed at developing prescription medicines from botanical plant origins....

Botanical compound could prove crucial to healing influenza

Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered that abscisic acid has anti-inflammator...

Multifunctionalised benzoxazinones in the systems Oryza sativa-Echinochloa crus-galli and Triticum aestivum-Avena fatua as natural-product-based herbicide leads.

BACKGROUND: Fifteen novel derivatives of D-DIBOA, including aromatic ring modifications and the addition of side chains in positions C-2 and N-4, had previously been synthesised and their phytotoxicit...

Building botanical literacy.

Online mentors inspire interest in science while engaging students in thinking about plant biology.

Cyclic Polyalcohols: Fingerprints To Identify the Botanical Origin of Natural Woods Used in Wine Aging.

Cyclic polyalcohol composition of 80 natural wood samples from different botanical species, with the majority of them used in the oenology industry for aging purposes, has been studied by gas chromato...

Batch-to-Batch Quality Consistency Evaluation of Botanical Drug Products Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of the Chromatographic Fingerprint.

Botanical drug products have batch-to-batch quality variability due to botanical raw materials and the current manufacturing process. The rational evaluation and control of product quality consistency...

Review of Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine: Herbal Medicines for Animal Health Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine: Herbal Medicines for Animal Health . Edited by D.Katerere and D.Luseba. CRC Press : Boca Raton . 2010 . xv + 434 pp. 16 × 24 cm. $139.95.