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As a celebration and count-down to this anniversary, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, together with the Oxford University Herbaria and the Department of Plant Sciences, will highlight 400 plants of scientific and cultural significance. One plant will be profiled weekly, and illustrated with images from Oxford University's living and preserved collections. Plant 100 The Raisin Tree / Hovenia Dulcis Hovenia is...

The findings have important implications for helping prevent liver damage and harm from alcohol abuse. Binge drinkers could use dihydromyricetin (DHM) for its liver protection properties, extending the function of the organ long enough for the person to get help and stop their bad drinking habit. “We may not be able to fix their problem overnight, but we can give them step-by-step improvements to...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23802359.2019.1711234 Abstract Hovenia acerba Lindl. is an important medicinal plant, for which complete chloroplast genome (Accession: MN782301) was sequenced, assembled and annotated. The genome size is 161,668 bp and the overall GC content is 36.69%, with large single-copy (LSC, 89,451bp) regions, small single-copy (SSC, 18,979 bp) regions, and two inverted repeat regions (IRs, 26,619 bp each). A total of 130 genes are successfully annotated, including 85 protein-coding...