Behavior of medicinal species of Cichorium intybus against salinity on different developmental stages
Salt tolerance is important in medicinal plants because of the cash value of these crops.The idea of using medicinal plants to treat human beings and livestock is not new, and in many developing countries their use is still in vogue.Despite the fact that in developed countries modern development in allopathic medicine is at climax, there is a renewed interest in using medicinal plants to treat humans, pets and livestock.Medicinal plants are being used for therapeutic purposes in several ways.In modern medicine, many drugs are used that are mainly derived from plants, e.g.Digitalis, morphine, atropine, cinchona and vinblastine (Joshi, 2000).Many people are turning to alternative medicine, due largely to the fact that there are frequent side effects to be faced by taking powerful synthetic allopathic drugs (Rojhan,2003).Because of salinity problems, researchers are trying to get the salt resistant vegetables and medicinal plants on which humans food and healthy depend.The present study was carried out to investigate the extent of salinity on the germination and early seedling growth of Cichorium intybus from Compositae.
M.Ghavam Arabani H.Azarnivand A.Tavili
Natural Resources Faculty,University of Tehran,P.O.Box:31585-4314,Karaj,Iran
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）