Little known Quince
In many ways Quince is an unique product of nature, a close relative of the Rosaceae plants whose most famous representatives are apple and pear and is rarely successfully grown beyond climate similar to the Mediterranean. Home of this fruit lies between the Caspian and Black Sea, the so-called. caucasian region, which covers northern part [...]
The Onion
Onions, that is red onion, is very well-known to all of us. Onions, one of the oldest vegetables known to humankind even the Book of Numbers 11:5 suggests cultivation probably took place around four thousand years ago in ancient Egypt, at the same time that leeks and garlic were cultivated. Clay plates from ancient Mesopotamia, [...]
New Antibiotic Treatment
Ingredient of small black mushroom (Pseudoplectania nigrella) from Northern European pine forests could be crucial for the development of an entirely new, powerful types of antibiotics and antiviral medicines. Danish Researchers were the first to isolate Plectasin, an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) active against multi-resistant bacterial from a saprophytic fungus. First tests with Plectasin, were already [...]