Identification of Curcuminoids from Turmeric (Curcuma longa) Using Ultrasonic Wave and Dipping Method

Ethnobotany of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)

This paper deals with the ethnobotany of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) an ancient crop having its origin and early domestication in South Asia and ethnobotanically very important. Due to its manifold uses in cultural and social life of ethnic people of Asia with special reference to South and South East Asia, has very early domestication and evolutionary history. In India, its history begins from...

Curcuminoids from Curcuma Longa in Disease Prevention & Treatment

Novel polymorphic microsatellite markers from turmeric, Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae)

Twenty one polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). These markers were screened across thirty accessions. The number of alleles observed for each locus ranged from two to eight with an average of 4.7 alleles per locus. The discrimination power of these markers ranged from 0.25 to 0.67 (average 0.6). The simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker...

Antioxidant efficacy of curcuminoids from turmeric ( Curcuma longa L.) powder in broiler chickens fed diets containing aflatoxin B1.

A 3-week-feeding study (1-21 d post-hatch) was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of total curcuminoids (TCMN), as an antioxidant, to ameliorate the adverse effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in broiler chickens. Turmeric powder (Curcuma longa L.) that contained 2.55 % TCMN was used as a source of TCMN. Six cage replicates of five chicks each were assigned to each of six dietary treatments, which i...

Identification of Weeds in Turmeric (curcuma Longa) Plants Using Unsupervised Skpca Algorithm with Image Processing

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is extensively used as a medicinal plant and food ingredient in India, China and South East Asia. In this paper the implementation of image processing techniques with and Sparse Kernel Principal Component Analysis (SKPCA) is used to identify the weeds in between turmeric growing field. Weeding out the undesirable plants is one of the major activities related to increasi...