Biology

Some new approaches to the study of medical plants (on the example of Convallaria majalis L.)

E. V. Katsovets, N. M. Matveev

Dept. of Ecology, Botany and the Reservation of Nature, Samara State University, Samara, 443011, Russia

Abstract: It is shown that comprehensive analysis of vegetable composition of phitocenosis makes it possible to understand the role of reseaching medical plant in its relations with other specific cenopopulations, in the structure of community and also characterize the most important conditions of biotope. It is possible to judge about the prospects of development of medicial kind on an age structure and on a type of cenopopulation formed by them.

Keywords: vegetable composition, biotope, cenopopulation.

UDC: 581.5

Received: 16.04.2010
Revised: 16.04.2010