Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, member of Asteraceae family, has bio-active compounds stevioside and rebaudioside which taste about 300 times sweeter than sucrose. It regulates blood sugar, prevents hypertension and tooth decay as well as used in treatment of skin disorders having high medicinal values, and hence there is a need for generating the plant on large scale. We have developed an efficient...

The use of leaf mulch as a soil cover is effective in improving yield and soil fertility. The field experiment was conducted during 2010 and 2011 to study the effect of plant spacing (30 cm × 30 cm and 45 cm × 30 cm) and four mulches {pine needles (Pinus roxburghii), poplar leaf (Populus deltoides), silver oak (Grevillea robusta) tree leaf mulch and unmulched control} on growth, yield, qual...

Stevia rebaudiana B. extracts as a low-calorie sweetener have gained worldwide approval. Synthesized nanoparticles by plant were used in different programs such as medical, pharmaceutical and agricultural filed. Here, we report the increase of the main glycosides of stevia plant with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) treatment. This fact has stimulated the research on the analysis and comparison of ...

Induced mutagenesis causes an increase variation of some products with limited genetic resources. In this study, the antioxidant enzymes activity, biochemical properties and glycoside content of Stevia were assessed by EMS (chemical mutagen) based on two experiments as factorial with completely randomized design with three replications. The results of the first experiment showed that some prope...

BACKGROUND Taste receptors are expressed not only in taste buds but also in the gastrointestinal tract. It has been hypothesized that these receptors may play a role in satiety and food intake. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effect of intraduodenal tastant infusions (bitter, sweet, and umami) on food intake, hunger and fullness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and gastrointestinal peptide r...

Abstract Stevia ( rebaudiana Bertoni) is a natural zero calorie sweetener with significant economic and medicinal values due to its high contents of steviosides (SVGs) in the leaves. The aqueous extract leaves (TAqE) was standardized contain 8.5% w/w SVGs (HPLC), total phenolics (164.63 ± 1.39 µg Gallic acid/mg extract) flavonoids 100.5 0.79 QE/mg extract. Twenty-one compounds were tentatively ...

Stevia rebaudiana cultivated in non-native tropical conditions tends to flower early, halting vegetative growth, resulting lower biomass and yields of its valued steviol glycoside metabolites. While indoor cultivation allows manipulation artificial lighting mimic optimal conditions, it introduces an additional energy cost. The study objectives were assess photoperiod as a strategy increase over...

Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) is a promising medicinal and aromatic plant for Mediterranean agroecosystems given its positive agronomic attributes interesting quality features. It has both food pharmaceutical applications, since leaves contain sweet-tasting steviol glycosides (SVglys) bioactive compounds, such as phenolics, flavonoids, vitamins. We evaluated the qualitative performances of nine s...