Morphological and Biochemical Characteristics of Plant Parts Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt. and Some Physical Indicators of its Extracts in Activated Water

The research focused on determining the economic value of a selected collection 20 shrubs from wild-growing population Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt. Arboretum Mlyňany and Nitra region. By morphological analysis, we determined weight fruits 0.18–0.50 g, height 5.57–13.22 mm, width 0.98–11.00 number seeds 1.67–5.30 pcs. content macro- microelements was found in leaves. M. samples are very valuable source potassium as main mineral element contained leaves (10.437 mg.kg-1) (9.763 mg.kg-1). Microelements such manganese iron prevailed (80.1 mg.kg-1 Mn 35.0 Fe), (29.7 25.0 heavy metals (Al, As, Cd, Ni, Pb, Hg) present only small amounts with most abundant aluminium (17.6 Al 3.6 fruits) can be used indicator suggesting environmental pollution status We antioxidant activity by Trolox method methanol extracts (76.2 101.2 mg TE.g-1 DW), ethanol (54.3 47.4 acetone (63.4 51.9 DW) water (35.5 60.3 for leaves, respectively. Extraction whole fruit (A1-WF), mashed (A1-MF), fruitless clusters (A1-CT) structured (activated) obtained Kalyxx 5 days significant reduction trend pH (A1-MF). electrolytic conductivity total dissolved solids decreased significantly third day extraction variants A1-MF A1-WF. Significant stability pH, during experimental period clusters’ (A1-CT). results show that has multifunctional practical use even conditions Slovak Republic.