Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn (Family- Nymphaeaceae) is a well known plant in ancient medical sciences, Much research have been done on the leaves, flowers, seeds and rhizomes of the plant, Our present aim is to review all the work performed on the plant to get a clear idea to evaluate its various medicinal principles relating to phytochemical pharmacological microbiological and allied approaches.

The rhizome of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn (fam. Nymphaeaceae) was studied to fix the parameters for pharmacognostical standards. The present investigation deals with the macro and microscopically characters of rhizome along with studies on some physical constants, behavior of powdered rhizomes on treatment with different chemical reagents and florescence characteristics on exposure to U.V light, w...

Flavonoids in nine tissues of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertner were identified and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) and HPLC-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MSn). Thirty-eight flavonoids were identified; eleven C-glycosides and five O-glycosides were discovered for the first time in N. nucifera. Most importantly, the C-glycos...

Nelumbo nucifera Gaertner was grown in a mesoscale culture by sowing seeds in cow dung compost and loamy soil (1 : 1). Rhizomes and young plantlets under ex-situ condition did not survive but germination was possible via seeds where the rate of germination was 50% and seedlings less than four months old also grew. Leaf area positively correlated with air temperature, water temperature, PAR, day...

Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) is a well known medicinal plant. The extracts of rhizomes, seeds, flowers and leaves have been reported to have varied therapeutic potential. Flowers are traditionally used to treat diarrhoea, cholera, fever, hepatopathy, hyperdipsia and many bleeding disorders. Furthermore, N. nucifera can be used for antidiabetic. This study was aimed to investigate the effect...

Aqueous extract of leaves of Nelumbo nucifera was investigated on acute stress (immobilization stress)-induced biochemical alterations in Swiss mice. The animals were also subjected to acute physical stress (swimming endurance test) and acute chemical stress (writhing test) to gauge the antistress potential of the extract. Further to evaluate the antistress activity of Nelumbo nucifera in chron...

Protein ubiquitination is extensively involved in the regulation of a considerable number of physiological processes in plant cells. E2 (ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme, UBC), one of the essential enzymes of eukaryotic ubiquitination, catalyzes protein ubiquitination together with E1 and E3. In this study, we cloned four full-length cDNA NnUBCs of Nelumbo nucifera. With the same coding sequence le...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a perennial aquatic herbaceous plant of ecological, ornamental, and economic importance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in plant development. However, reports of miRNAs and their role in sacred lotus have been limited. METHODS Using the homology search of known miRNAs with genome and transcriptome contig sequences, we employed...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polymorphic microRNA (miRNA)-based microsatellite markers were developed to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbonaceae). METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 485 miRNA-based microsatellites were found from the genomic DNA sequences of N. nucifera. After several rounds of screening, 21 primer pairs flanking di-, tri-, or pentanu...

Investigation of the roots of Lotus polyphyllos Clarke resulted in the isolation of two new isoflavone derivatives; 4'-O-methylerythrinin C (3) and 4'-O-methyl-2''-hydroxydihydroalpinumisoflavone (4). In addition, the three known isoflavone derivatives 4'-O-methylalpinumisoflavone (1) lupinalbin F (5), 4',7-dimethoxy-5-hydroxyisoflavone (6), and the phenylpropanoid ester tetracosyl p-coumarate ...