Background: The manipulation of mineral nutrition may affect secondary metabolite production and thus determine the nutritional value food/medicinal plants. Objectives: present study investigated impact nitrogen supply on metabolites physiological parameters Hypericum androsaemum plants grown in sand culture. Methods: Four-week were irrigated by full-strength Hoagland solution (control), nitrat...

Preliminary investigation on antioxidative potentials of defatted fermented locust bean extract in comparison to defatted non-fermented locust bean was conducted. Qualitative antioxidative assessment on the extract was accomplished by screening the phytochemical endowment, and similar bioactive components. Also some antioxidative indices were quantitatively evaluated. Results showed that the de...

Selenium (Se) is involved in the growth and development of plants. More importantly, Se from plant foods a primary source intake for humans animals. Improving content vegetables through biofortification an effective way to solve hidden hunger induced by deficiency. This study demonstrated effect different exogenous application concentrations on growth, antioxidative capacity, nutritional qualit...

This study aimed to evaluate, in vitro, the antioxidative potential of fruit wines produced from berry fruits (i.e., black chokeberry, blueberry, blackberry, and raspberry), cherry, apple by different technological processes. For this purpose, activities antioxidant enzymes (catalase, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD)) malondialdehyde (MDA) content as a marker membrane da...

Extracts from Erodium cicutarium L. (EC) and some standard substances present in EC extracts were tested for their antioxidative properties during Fe(2+)-induced triglyceride oxidation. Hydrophobic fractions such as petroleum ether (PEE), benzene (BE) and chloroform I (ChE I) extracts as well as hydrophilic fractions i.e. water (WE) and ethyl acetate (EAE) showed an antioxidative effect. Among ...