Context An accession of the annual legume Trigonella balansae Boiss. & Reuter. has been selected for commercial release in Australia. Aims As part a duty-of-care assessment, we tested hypothesis that sheep grazing trigonella will have liveweight, condition scores and wool production similar to those two widely adopted legumes, subterranean clover (subclover, Trifolium subterraneum L. cv. Da...

Therapeutic potentials of several medicinal plants are under active investigations and there are several reports indicating their antidiabetic actions, including the one that appeared in your esteemed journal about fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum) seeds (1). Improvement in lipid profile also, following an oral administration of the whole seeds of this plant, has been reported by other work...

Background: Epilepsy is the 2nd greatest prevalent brain ailment after stroke, and a huge load on health system. Currently available antiepileptic drugs are associated with a lot of adverse effects and exhibit erratic pharmacological effects; hence it is crucial to explore newer anticonvulsant medications having better side effect profile and enhanced pharmacological effects because of the leng...

An extract of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum) seeds was isolated and evaluated for antioxidant activity using various in vitro assay systems. The seed extract exhibited scavenging of hydroxyl radicals ( OH) and inhibition of hydrogen peroxide-induced lipid peroxidation in rat liver mitochondria. The OH scavenging activity of the extract was evaluated by pulse radiolysis and the deoxyribos...

Galactomannans comprise a β-1,4-mannan backbone substituted with α-1,6-galactosyl residues. Genes encoding the enzymes that are primarily responsible for backbone synthesis and side-chain addition of galactomannans were previously identified and characterized. To identify additional genes involved in galactomannan biosynthesis, we previously performed deep EST profiling of fenugreek (Trigonella...

The present study was designed to determine the effect of fenugreek seed extract (FG) on endurance capacity in male mice aged 4 wk. Mice were given orally either vehicle or FG (150, 300 mg/kg body weight) by stomach intubation for 4 wk. The 300 mg/ kg FG group showed a significant increase in swimming time to exhaustion as compared to the control group. In the FG groups, blood lactate concentra...