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...

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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...