Glutathione, a ubiquitous thiol-containing tripeptide is a low-molecular weight, water soluble antioxidant. It plays a major role in the removal of reactive species. Eichhornia crassipes is an aquatic weed possessing pharmacological potential and is a source of many antioxidants. HPLC established glutathione detection in E. crassipes was carried out with a PDA detector. The study revealed the p...

This study aimed at verifying the lead tolerance of water hyacinth and at looking at consequent anatomical and physiological modifications. Water hyacinth plants were grown on nutrient solutions with five different lead concentrations: 0.00, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00 and 4.00 mg L-1 by 20 days. Photosynthesis, transpiration, stomatal conductance and the Ci/Ca rate were measured at the end of 15 days of ...

Background: The application of phytoremediation by utilizing plants has been used to control oil pollution in waters. One the that can act as a phytoremediator is hyacinth because this plant reduce various pollutants including petroleum hydrocarbons. This study aims reduction ability hydrocarbons at different concentrations improving water quality. <ns...

A lab-scale ensiling study was carried out to investigate the fermentation quality of water hyacinth (WH) supplemented with molasses, rice bran, as an absorbent, and an inoculant in the form of fermented vegetable juice and their combinations. After wilting the water hyacinths for 7 h to a dry matter (DM) content of 240 to 250 g/kg, the following treatments were applied: i) Control (C), WH only...

Abstract Water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ) is one aquatic plant widely used in phytoremediation. hyacinths can absorb organic, inorganic, and heavy metal pollutants. Cr(VI) of the metals found industrial waste. Adsorption techniques to remove content. Activated carbon good adsorbents because it has a high adsorption ability. The ability activated adsorb influenced by surface area, solutio...

Among the aquatic weeds, water hyacinth is considered to be the most obnoxious of all aquatic weeds and occupies eighth rank in the world. Water hyacinth caused lot of problems to human beings and animals in many ways. The present study is therefore aimed to develop an appropriate technology for recovery of resources from aquatic weeds by pit methods of composting. Compost was prepared from aqu...