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What deters plant colonization in a tropical pine plantation?

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (2), 2016
AbstractPine plantations in the tropics are often employed to recondition eroded slopes from mudslides, as the Pinus caribaea plantation that shields the Universidad Simón Bolívar campus in Caracas (Venezuela). However, mismanagement of this plantation has led to its rapid degradation. The best option ...

Antiproliferative evaluation of tall-oil docosanol and tetracosanol over CHO-K1 and human melanoma cells

Electron. j. biotechnol; 18 (4), 2015
Background Polycosanols derived from plant species have traditionally been used in medicine as antiproliferative agents for treating various viruses (primarily the herpes simplex virus). However, few studies have studied their effects on hyperproliferative cell lines. In this work, the antiproliferative ...

Impact of simulated acid rain on soil microbial community function in Masson pine seedlings

Electron. j. biotechnol; 17 (5), 2014
Background Accompanying its rapid economic development and population growth, China is the world's third largest acid rain region, following Europe and North America. The effects of acid rain on forest ecosystem were widely researched, including the growth, the nutrient of the leaf and soil, and so on. H...

Determinación y comparación de propiedades físico-químicas de dos aceites de pino (Pinus oocarpa schiede) extraídos mediante las técnicas de soxhlet y clevenger

El aceite de pino es una mezcla de monoterpenos, hidrocarburos terpénicos y alcoholes terpénicos cíclicos derivados de la destilación de la madera de pino con aproximadamente un 57% de alfa-pineno como su principal componente. Es un líquido incoloro o ámbar claro con olor característico a pino. Pu...