Phenolic composition and biological activities of fruit extracts from Italian and Algerian Olea europaea L. cultivars were studied. Total phenolic and tannin contents were quantified in the extracts. Moreover 14 different phenolic compounds were identified, and their profiles showed remarkable quantitative differences among analysed extracts. Moreover antioxidant and enzymatic inhibition activi...

We tested the hypothesis that whole-tree water consumption of olives (Olea europaea L.) is fruit load-dependent and investigated the driving physiological mechanisms. Fruit load was manipulated in mature olives grown in weighing-drainage lysimeters. Fruit was thinned or entirely removed from trees at three separate stages of growth: early, mid and late in the season. Tree-scale transpiration, c...

Inhibitory activity of thirty-one ethanol extracts obtained from albedo, flavedo, seed and leaf parts of 17 cultivars of Citrus species from Turkey, the bark and leaves of Olea europaea L. from two locations (Turkey and Cyprus) as well as caffeic acid and hesperidin was tested against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's diseas...

This work was designed to analyse the symptoms of pollen allergy in two different cities of the Iberian Peninsula, Cordoba and Evora. Fifteen patients with pollinosis in Cordoba and twenty-seven in Evora were included in this study. Rhinitis symptoms scores were recorded in both cities in order to correlate these data with those of pollen counts. Linear regression analyses were performed in ord...

The data presented here are related to the research article entitled "Generation of nitric oxide by olive (Olea europaea L.) pollen during in vitro germination and assessment of the S-nitroso- and nitro-proteomes by computational predictive methods" doi:10.1016/j.niox.2017.06.005 (Jimenez-Quesada et al., 2017) [1]. Predicted cysteine S-nitrosylation and Tyr-nitration sites in proteins derived f...

Effect of Vermicompost Fertilizer on Some Physiological Factors and Mineral Elements Absorption Olive (Olea europaea L. cv. Zard) Under Drought Stress Condition

The olive tree is a member of the Oleaceae family, which contains the genera Fraxinus, Forsythia, Forestiera, Ligustrum and Syringa, as well as the genus Olea. Commercial olives are products of the Olea europaea L. species. There are roughly 20 species of Olea found throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world, but only O. europaea L. produces edible fruit. The fruit of olive trees ...

BACKGROUND Olea africana leaves are used by Bapedi people to treat different ailments. The use of these leaves is not validated, therefore the aim of this study is to validate antimicrobial properties of this plant. METHODS The ground leaves were extracted using solvents of varying polarity (hexane, chloroform, dichloromethane (DCM), ethyl acetate, acetone, ethanol, methanol, butanol and wate...

BACKGROUND A new subcutaneous specific immunotherapy (SCIT) product adsorbed on aluminium hydroxide has been developed with a short and simplified up-dosing phase, containing a biologically standardized allergen pollen extract from Olea europaea. OBJECTIVE To assess the tolerability profile of the updosing phase and its immunological effect, in terms of specific IgG4 and IgE levels and immedi...