Carthamus tinctorius Linn, also known as safflower, is a plant with the potential of being used in production antimalarial drugs. The purpose this study was to isolate and identify steroid compounds safflower determine its activity vitro. isolation process conducted through extraction chromatography methods. Then, characterization isolated spectroscopic techniques which include Fourier Transfor...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is an oil seed crop that is grown not only for its edible oil but also for its applications as animal feed and plant-made pharmaceuticals. Historically, biometrical genetics played a crucial role in the improvement of safflower seed yield and its components, phenologic and morphologic traits, and nutritional properties including oil, fatty (linoleic, oleic, s...

Glucose was found to be a potential stimulator o f carthamin formation in triturated florets o f C. tinctorius. At a 10 m M glucose level, carthamin-producing activity was raised from 3.2fold (upper) to 2.0-fold (lower) level compared with the control having no sugar. Glucose oxi­ dase (ß-D-glucose: oxygen 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.3.4) from Aspergillus niger could catalyze the conversion of pre...

Shoot regeneration in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius 'AKS 207' and 'PKV Pink') genetically transformed using Agrobacterium was used for assessing various constraints to the efficiency of transformation including infection period, virulence induction medium, co-cultivation period, bacterial titre, selection regime, and the natural phenolic compound acetosyringone. Transformation frequency was p...

Major depression disorder (MDD) has become a common life-threatening disorder. Despite the number of studies and introduced antidepressants, MDD remains major global health issue. Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) is traditionally used for food medical purposes. This study investigated chemical profile antidepressant-like effect tincto-rius hot water extract in male mice its mechanism using tran...

Precarthamin, a yellow precursor of carthamin, was efficiently isolated from the yellow petals of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L. ) with Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography and preparative HPLC, and identified with UV-vis and NMR spectrometry. The UV-vis spectrum of precarthamin showed lambda(max) of 238 and 406 nm in MeOH. The molar extinction coefficients of precarthamin at 406 nm in MeOH...