Piperine, a major alkaloid in black pepper is one of the most promising bioenhancers till date. Other methods used for its extraction suffer drawbacks such as poor extraction efficiency, tedious and expensive isolation methodology, piperine photodegradation, etc. Hence a simple, rapid and efficient method has been developed for the isolation of piperine from the fruits of Piper nigrum. The meth...

Received: 10 January, 2016 Accepted: 17 March, 2016 Published: 20 June, 2016 Gamma ray was applied to reduce mycotoxins, i.e. ochratoxin A (OTA) and aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 (AFB1, AFB2, AFG1 and AFG2) in black and white pepper. The aim of the this study was to evaluate the efficacy of gamma radiation for decontaminating ochratoxin) and aflatoxins residues in artificially contaminated black...

BACKGROUND Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is one of the well-known spices extensively used worldwide especially in India, and Southeast Asia. The presence of alkaloids in the pepper, namely, piperine and its three stereoisomers, isopiperine, chavicine and isochavicine are well noticed. OBJECTIVES The current study evaluated the effect of lyophilization and oven drying on the stability and decomp...

Black pepper is one of the most popular and oldest spices in the world and valued for its pungent constituent alkaloids. Pinerine is the main bioactive compound in pepper alkaloids, which perform unique physiological functions. However, the mechanisms of piperine synthesis are poorly understood. This study is the first to describe the fruit transcriptome of black pepper by sequencing on Illumin...

Diet is one of the important factors in cancer etiology and prevention. The Indian diet is particularly interesting in its many unique dietary constituents, including spices like chili pepper, cloves, black pepper and black cumin, that have promise as chemopreventive agents. The objective of the present study was to compare the in vitro anticancer activities of aqueous and ethanolic extracts ag...

Agricultural robots were designed based on the characteristics of target crop. In this study, two varieties black pepper including Kaimunda and Panniyur 1 evaluated for physical parameters to design a robotic harvester. The main objective study was measure analyze properties regard, studies conducted spike, peduncle, berry, vine separately. results showed that average length diameter spikes Kar...

Natural infection of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in Indian long pepper (Piper longum L.) and betel vine (Piper betle L.) was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The coat protein gene sequences of CMV infecting these hosts were amplified. The resulting amplicons were cloned and sequenced. In both the cases coat protein gene consisted of 657 nucleotides, potentia...

Piper nigrum is famous as the spices king due to its pungent quality[1]. Piper nigrum (P.nigrum) L. is a member of family Piperaceae[2-4]. The genus piper has more than 1000 species but the most well known species are P.nigrum, P.longum and P.betle; 51 cultivars of p. nigrum have been reported from the tropical and subtropical regions of India [5]. P.nigrum fruits are also used to produce white...