it is known that legumes give benefits to the soil such as improved nutrient availability, improved structure, reduced pest and disease incidence, and hormonal effects (wani et al., 1995). the major benefit of legume crops comes from biologically nitrogen fixation, deriving from the symbiosis involving leguminous plants and rhizobium bacteria (vance, 1998). based on this purpose, a field study ...

background: holothuroids (sea cucumbers) are members of the phylum echinodermata, which produce saponins. saponins exhibit a wide spectrum of pharmacological and biological activities. in this study, we isolated the crude saponins from the body wall of the dominant iranian species of sea cucumber, holothuria leucospilota (h. leucospilota). the purpose of this study was to confirm the presence o...

Lifestyle decisions, food habits, stress, environmental variables, and synthetic substances are all contributing to the rapid advancement of human diseases. It has been demonstrated that herb fenugreek is effective in treating conditions like cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation. Fenugreek extracts powders have successfully used culinary pharmaceutical industries because its therape...

Saponins are naturally occurring amphiphilic molecules and have been associated with many biological activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether soya saponins trigger the onset of soyabean-induced enteritis in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), and to examine if dietary soya saponins increase the epithelial permeability of the distal intestine in Atlantic salmon. Seven ex...

Chaieb, I. 2010. Saponins as insecticides: a review. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 5: 3950. Saponins are heterosides (substances containing in their structure one or more sugar molecule) of plant origin. This type of molecules has an interesting pesticide potential and this review constitutes an inventory of principal researches realized in this direction. In the first part of this revie...

Certain saponins are bioactive compounds with anticancer, antivirus and antioxidant activities. This paper discussed inhibitory effects of saponins from Xanthoceras Sorbifolia on tyrosinase, through the research of the rate of tyrosinase catalyzed L-DOPA oxidation. The inhibition rate of tyrosinase activity presented non-linear changes with the saponins concentration. The rate reached 52.0% whe...

in order to study yield and yield components of fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill) – fenugreek (trigonella foenum-graecum l.) in different patterns of intercropping and sole cropping, an experiment with use replacement and additive intercropping based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at the research station of faculty of agriculture, zanjan university, ira...

Etioplasts, Prolamellar Bodies, Saponins, Chromatography Prolamellar body tubules in etioplasts are composed mainly of two saponins. The determination of these saponins in leaves, etioplasts or subfractions of etioplasts is re­ commended to evaluate the concentration of these tubules in a given fraction. Using a densitometer after TLC-separation of the saponins measurements are carried out in a...

Ocotillol-type saponins are one kind of tetracyclic triterpenoids, sharing a tetrahydrofuran ring. Natural ocotillol-type saponins have been discovered in Panax quinquefolius L., Panax japonicus, Hana mina, and Vietnamese ginseng. In recent years, the semisynthesis of 20(S/R)-ocotillol-type saponins has been reported. The biological activities of ocotillol-type saponins include neuroprotective ...