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Anogeissus; bark; chemical constituents of plants; dietary supplements; food chemistry; glycosylation; osteoarthritis; phytochemicals; traditional medicine; trees; triterpenoids; Africa; Asia
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... Anogeissus leiocarpus DC is an evergreen tree, widely distributed in Asia and Africa. The stem bark is used in traditional medicine, and as chewing sticks and infusion. Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly important to define the phytochemical profile of less studied edible plants. Aim of this research was a first complete characterization of ellagitannins and triterpenoids profiles by HPLC-DAD-M ...
Brassica oleracea var. italica; antioxidants; bark; bioactive compounds; bioavailability; broccoli; chemical constituents of plants; coproducts; coumaric acids; digestion; flavonols; food composition; freeze drying; glucosinolates; glycosylation; ingredients; sulforaphane; wastes
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... Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) stalks account for up to 35% of the broccoli harvest remains with the concomitant generation of unused waste that needs recovery to contribute to the sustainability of the system. However, due to its phytochemical composition, rich in bioactive (poly)phenols and glucosinolates, as well as other nutrients, the development of valorization alternatives as a s ...
... Increased frequencies and windspeeds of storms may cause disproportionately high increases in windthrow damage. Storm-felled trees provide a surplus of breeding material for bark beetles, often resulting in calamities in the subsequent years. Thus, the timely removal of fallen trees is regarded as a good management practice that requires strategic planning of salvage harvesting. Precise informatio ...
... Previous phytopathological studies of the fungal pathogen Nectria cinnabarina have been focused on its distribution and host diversity but little is known about the spread of this pathogen and the defence responses of forest trees to an infection inside host tissues. Histopathological alterations of bark, periderm, phloem and woody tissues were investigated in sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) ...
Picea abies; acetaminophen; adsorbents; adsorption; aromatic compounds; bark; biochar; carbon; chemical treatment; comparative study; hydrogen; hydrophobicity; microstructure; pyrolysis; surface area; van der Waals forces; zinc chloride; zinc sulfate
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... Preparing sustainable and highly efficient biomass-based carbon materials (BBPM) as adsorbents remains a challenge for organic pollutant management. In this work, novel biobased carbon material has been synthesized via facile, sustainable, and different single-step pyrolysis chemical methods (KOH, ZnCl₂, ZnSO₄, and MgCl₂) using a Norway spruce bark as suitable and efficient carbon precursor. The e ...
... The effects of a composite polyphenolic-rich extract (CPRE) on ruminal fermentation, nutrient utilisation, growth performance, excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus and methane emission were studied in growing buffaloes. Four herbal dry extracts prepared from Acacia arabica (babul; bark), Acacia catechu (cutch; bark), Punica granatum (pomegranate; peel) and Eugenia jambolana (Indian blackberry; see ...
... Micro- and Nano-Fibrillated Cellulose (MNFC) have gained increasing attention due to their remarkable properties, but their production usually requires an intensive multi-step process. This study proposes to find a novel approach involving steam explosion for the production of lignin-containing micro- and nano-fibrillated cellulose (L-MNFC) using Eucalyptus globulus bark as a new lignocellulosic f ...
Curculionidae; Dendroctonus frontalis; Pinus; USDA Forest Service; bark; bark beetles; climate change; data collection; forest ecosystems; forests; landscapes; normalized difference vegetation index; prediction; risk; risk assessment; summer; temperature; tree mortality; Alabama; Central America; Florida; Georgia; Mexico; South Carolina
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... Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) alter forest ecosystem functioning through tree mortality, thus causing billions of dollars in economic and ecological damages worldwide. Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann is considered one of the most significant insect pest species of pine (Pinus spp.) trees in the United States (U.S.), Central America, and Mexico. To manage this threat, research has soug ...
Guy Raymond Feuya Tchouya; Hibrahim Foundikou; Marius Mbiantcha; Jean Jules Bankeu Kezetas; Jean-Bernard Bongui; Jean Claude Tchouankeu; Jacques Lebibi; Dattatraya H. Dethe
... The phytochemical investigation of the dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) extract of the stem bark of Scyphocephalium ochocoa, led to the isolation of one new dibenzofuran derivative, named scyphocephalione A (1), along with three other compounds, including epicatechin (2), gentisic acid (3) and myo-inositol (4). The structures of all the compounds were established with help of spectroscopic data incl ...
... Two new compounds, an isoquinoline (1) and caloneuramide (2), a ceramide were isolated from the stem bark of Discoglypremna caloneura together with seven known compounds namely aurantiamide acetate (3), acetylaleuritolic acid (4), 3α-hydroxylaleuritolic acid 2α-p-hydroxybenzoate (5), mixture of stigmasterol (6) and β-sitosterol (7), mixture of 7-oxo-stigmasterol (8) and 7-oxo-β-sitosterol (9). The ...
... A new lignan, named fagraeanolide (1), and 14 known compounds were isolated from the stem bark of Fagraea fragrans Roxb. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic methods. Fagraeanolide is the first identified oxofurofuran lignan from the genus Fagraea, while β-boswelic acid (4), gentiogenol (5), 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-acrylic acid octacosyl ester (7) and pinoresinol (14) were isola ...
... Crape-myrtle cultivars derived from crosses between Lagerstroemia faurei and L. indica are widely grown across the warmer parts of the United States and in similar climates around the world. Plants with this hybrid ancestry vary widely in appearance, from shrubs to small trees, with limbs upright to widely spreading, bark ash-grey to deep orange, and petals white, purple, or red, all of these char ...
Larissa M. Magnibou; Peron B. Leutcha; Billy T. Tchegnitegni; Steven C. N. Wouamba; Cyrille Y. F. F. Magne; Abel J. G. Yaya; Theodora Kopa; Maurice F. Tagatsing; Nantenaina Tombozara; Alain L. Meli; Celine Henoumont; Sophie Laurent; Emmanuel Talla
... Entada abyssinica Steud. Ex A. Rich (Leguminosae) is a medicinal plant used traditionally for the treatment of infections. A phytochemical investigation of the methanol extract of E. abyssinica root bark led to the isolation of a new phenanthrene derivative named phenentada (1), together with seven known compounds (8 S, 13 E)-kolavic acid 15-methyl ester (2) and 8 S-kolavic acid 15-methyl ester (3 ...
... It is important to guarantee the property of biological compatibility when estimating tree biomass of the total and components for carbon accounting under global climate change. The issue was successfully considered in traditional nonlinear regression models, but not for machine learning methods. A new method for approaching the compatibility of tree biomass estimation in ANN (Artificial Neural Ne ...
... We developed simple practical methods to estimate deer appearance frequency and damage risk for cedar saplings protected by tree shelters, by using field signs such as browsed understory plants, debarked trees, and animal trails. The appearance frequency of the sika deer was recorded using camera traps at 29 clear-logged and young plantation sites in the Shikoku Island of western Japan. Field sign ...
Manilkara zapota; analgesics; anthocyanins; antioxidants; bark; calcium; chemical constituents of plants; dietary supplements; flavanols; food science; fruits; human nutrition; ingredients; iron; nutrient content; phenolic acids; potassium; sapodillas; technology
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... Manilkara zapota, also known as Sapodilla, is the best-known and most widely cultivated fruit from Sapotaceae. Sapodilla is a rich source of nutrients (sugars, acids, protein, amino acids), minerals (potassium, calcium, and iron), and comprises of a myriad of bioactive compounds, which are chiefly composed of ellagitannins, gallotannins, phenolic acid, depsides, and flavonoids (anthocyanins and fl ...
... The awareness of the environmental impact of CO₂ emission from fossil fuels has resulted in the search for alternative renewable energy sources. Biomass-derived from agro-residues and economic trees have been identified as a sustainable fossil fuel alternative. The Leucaena leucocephala tree is abundant and presents diverse beneficial opportunities as a high-energy density tree. Its ability to thr ...
antimicrobial properties; bark; cobalt; electrochemistry; green chemistry; leaves; photocatalysis; phytochemicals; plant extracts; remediation; research; terpenoids; water pollution
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... Cobalt nanoparticles have received great attentions from the researchers because of its unqiue applications in various sectors such as photocatalytic, antimrobial activity and electrochemical sensing. Consequently, in the recent past, a number of research studies published by the use of physical, chemical and plant extract based green synthesis approaches. Among these methods, plant extract based ...
Carya illinoinensis; absorption; acetic acid; antioxidants; bark; chemical constituents of plants; flavonoids; glycosides; indomethacin; inducible nitric oxide synthase; methanol; necrosis; neoplasms; spectral analysis; terpenoids; thin layer chromatography; traditional medicine
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... Carya illinoinensis (Family Juglandaceae) is frequently used in traditional medicine for its antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-rheumatic, anti-diabetic, and diuretic activities. Column chromatography was used to separate phytoconstituents from an ethanolic extract of powered bark. The terpenoid glycosidic compound, CI-01, was isolated as light-yellow crystalline powder in 0.33% (w/w) yield having m ...
... The quantitation of lignin is essential for the evaluation, conversion, and utilization of lignocellulosic biomass. However, the existing lignin quantitation methods like the widely used Klason method still have some disadvantages, such as requiring hazardous reagents, complicated steps, heating, introducing interfering substances, and low sensitivity. In this study, a novel green method for ligni ...
... Background. Most of the plantings of fruit crops in Russia are located in the zone of risky agriculture. In the European part of Russia, in winter, fruit crops are affected by the impacts of weather conditions (spring frosts, droughts, early frosts, low-temperature stress, a short growing season, and thaws). Frosts cause 98% of the damage to fruit trees.Methods. One-year-old branches were frozen i ...
bark; economics; ecosystems; evergreen trees; evolution; leaves; nutrient transport; principal component analysis; species diversity; wood; woody plants
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... The whole‐plant economics spectrum (PES) refers to the trade‐offs among the many plant functional traits that are commonly used as indicators of major adaptive strategies, thereby providing insights into plant distributions, ecosystem processes and evolution. However, there are few studies of what may be called the whole‐PES that integrates bark, wood and leaf functional traits for different leaf ...
Pinus koraiensis; aboveground biomass; administrative management; allometry; bark; coniferous forests; dry matter partitioning; forest ecology; leaves; model validation; models; plant development; prediction; tree and stand measurements; trees; woody plants; China
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... Tree allometric models are crucial to accurate forest biomass assessment, but the acquisition of biomass data is one of the most important limitations in establishing biomass models. This study aims to propose an improved investigation method to quickly and practically obtain biomass data, establish species-specific allometric equations and evaluate the biomass allocation pattern for various tree ...
... Acanthoic acid (AA) is a pimaradiene diterpene isolated from the root bark of Acanthopanax koreanum Nakai (Araliaceae) with a wide range of pharmacological activities, including anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetes, liver protection, gastrointestinal protection, and cardiovascular protection. In addition, AA promotes its pharmacological effects by targeting liver X receptors (LXRs), nucle ...
... Acer truncatum Bunge is a multifunctional plant in northern China. It has traditionally been used to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and treat skin trauma by different linguistic groups including Mongolian, Tibetan, and Korean. Although research has verified that A. truncatum contains a variety of active ingredients, especially nervonic acid, an important component in delaying ...
Jéssica Maria Alexandre Soares; Elenildo Dário da Silva Júnior; Bruno Oliveira de Veras; Ricardo Yara; Priscilla Barbosa Sales de Albuquerque; Marthyna Pessoa de Souza
... Bioactive biodegradable films are emerging biomaterials in the food packaging field. This study aims to investigate the effect of different Cenostigma nordestinum extracts (leaves, bark, and exudate bark) on the antioxidant, antimicrobial, and some physicochemical properties of chitosan films. Different concentrations of the extracts were added to the film matrix and the resulting incorporated fil ...
Berit Marie Blomstrand; Heidi Larsen Enemark; Håvard Steinshamn; Inga Marie Aasen; Juni Rosann Engelien Johanssen; Spiridoula Athanasiadou; Stig Milan Thamsborg; Kristin Marie Sørheim
... BACKGROUND: Eimeria spp. are widespread apicomplexan parasites known to cause coccidiosis in livestock, resulting in reduced animal welfare and productivity, particularly in sheep. The treatment options are limited, and there is an emerging development of resistance against registered pharmaceuticals. Spruce bark is rich in plant secondary metabolites (PSM), such as condensed tannins, which are bi ...
... Bark residues of the forest species Cedrela fissilis were physically and chemically modified with zinc chloride (ZnCl₂) as an activating agent. The two modified materials were analyzed as adsorbents in removing atrazine and 2,4-D herbicides from effluents. Firstly, the precursor material and the modified ones were characterized by different techniques to identify the structural changes that occurr ...
Alnus glutinosa; antioxidant activity; bark; cell walls; depolymerization; electric energy consumption; energy efficiency; flavonoids; heat; hemicellulose; lignin; metabolites; solvents; temperature; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy
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... “Green” extraction of black alder bark using deionized water as an alternative to organic solvents and microwave (MW) - induced heating instead of convective/conductive heating was studied. An extractor of original construction with the MW capacity of 2.4 kW, equipped with a pressurized extraction chamber (V = 1350 cm³) and a condenser section, was used. The MW-assisted heating of the suspension u ...
Agathis robusta; COVID-19 infection; RNA-directed RNA polymerase; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; active sites; antiviral properties; bark; borneol; chemical composition; computer simulation; computer software; cytopathogenicity; essential oils; etiological agents; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; limonene; proteinases
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... Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2), the causative agent of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has seriously threatened global health. Alongside the approved vaccines, the discovery of prospective anti-COVID-19 drugs has been progressively targeted. Essential oils (EOs) provide a rich source of compounds with valuable antiviral activities that may contribute as effective ...
Betula ermanii; Russia; adults; bark; carbon; climate change; drought; geometry; meristems; ontogeny; photosynthates; sclereids; secondary phloem; statistical analysis; tree age; tree crown; trees
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... KEY MESSAGE: Stressful volcanic environments induce adaptive changes in bark thickness, phloem structure, and particularly sieve-tube structure to optimise long-distance carbon transport. The response of woody plants to stressful environments is important for estimating and forecasting their adaptive capacity under a climate change. A severe stress factor for woody plants is the activity of magmat ...
... Industrial spruce bark is an abundant side-stream from forest industries that contains tannins and other phenolic compounds that can be exploited in a variety of applications. In this study, alkaline extractions of spruce bark conducted under a wide range of process conditions showed that 20–27 % of the bark could be extracted as polyphenols, mainly tannins and some lignin. The polyphenols in alka ...
Pinus; Quercus; bark; fire history; forest ecology; resource allocation
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... Pines (Pinus, with 120 species) and oaks (Quercus, with at least 400 species), the two principal forest forming genera of the Northern Hemisphere occur in fire affected landscapes over a large geographical area from 120°W to 150°E long, and from 10° to 60°N lat. We compiled studies of 116 such sites of which 75 sites had data of bark thickness. Taking a meta-analysis approach, here we have compare ...
Populus cathayana; ammonium; bark; cell walls; gene expression regulation; leaves; nitrates; nitrogen; nutrition; proteolysis; salt stress; salt tolerance; stress tolerance; transcription (genetics)
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... Nitrogen (N) fertilization is a promising approach to improve salt tolerance. However, it is poorly known how plant sex and inorganic N alter salt stress‐induced Na⁺ uptake, distribution and tolerance. This study employed Populus cathayana Rehder females and males to examine sex‐related mechanisms of salt tolerance under nitrate (NO₃⁻) and ammonium (NH₄⁺) nutrition. Males had a higher root Na⁺ eff ...
... In recent years, noise pollution generated by increasing global urbanization has become an important issue. This study focused on determining the sound absorption coefficients (SACs) of untreated tree trunks as natural fiber-based materials and predicting their noise reduction coefficients (NRCs). It also evaluated the effects of noise reduction using numerical data. One of the most effective acou ...
bark; commercialization; common names; disease prevention; domestication; fruit trees; fruits; health promotion; income; phytochemicals; therapeutics; world markets
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... Many underutilized fruit plants are still obscure, in spite of possessing high medicinal and nutritional properties. Here, we reviewed one of the underutilized fruits tree (Choerospondias axillaris) and explored its occurrence, distribution, nutritional properties, phytochemicals, and medicinal value, along with associated challenges and prospects. Literature mining using scientific and common nam ...
Datura stramonium; Lamiaceae; bark; common names; ethnobotany; surveys; Zimbabwe
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... The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of diseases is a common practice in many parts of the world including Zimbabwe. The study provides ethnobotanical data on the use of medicinal plants in the treatment of cancer in some parts of Matebeleland, Zimbabwe. The study aimed to document the use of these plants to preserve knowledge for future generations. The study was conducted in five distri ...
... Despite ongoing research, many aspects of dogs’ vocal communication are not yet fully understood, including how they convey information about items. The aim of the present exploratory study was to determine whether dogs vocalize differently toward their owner and food in an unsolvable task where food is inaccessible and to characterize the acoustic composition of canine vocalizations.In Savalli et ...
... BACKGROUND: Pain and inflammation are associatory events in cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis and other chronic diseases. Corticosteroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exert potential side effects on long term use. This study was aimed to investigate the acute oral toxicity, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of leaf and bark extracts of Albizia procera in exper ...
... Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) is recognized as one of the main triggers of the cutaneous inflammatory response in acne vulgaris, a chronic skin disorder with a multifactorial origin. Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana L.) is a plant widely used for skin inflammatory conditions, with some preliminary anti-inflammatory evidence on the skin, but lacking data on acne conditions. This study aimed to ev ...
Maura Di Vito; Lara Vergari; Melinda Mariotti; Maria Rita Proto; Lorenzo Barbanti; Stefania Garzoli; Maurizio Sanguinetti; Luigia Sabatini; Alice Peduzzi; Maria Grazia Bellardi; Paola Mattarelli; Francesca Bugli; Daphne De Luca
... A modern painting is characterized by multi-material bases extremely exposed to biodeteriogenic attacks. The aim of this work was to test the antifungal effectiveness of a natural, eco-friendly, and safe emulsion based on Citrus aurantium L. var. amara hydrolate and Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume (from bark) essential oil, named “Zeylantium green emulsion” (Zege), on modern paintings. Colored unaged ...
... This study was undertaken to investigate anti-oxidant, anti-diabetic and anti-lipidemic activities of three extracts from Rhus tripartitum root bark prepared by solvents with increasing polarity (hexane, ethyl acetate and n-butanol). Our result demonstrated that the n-butanol extract is endowed with the highest phenolic content 872.503 ± 0.788 mg (GAE)/g Extract, flavonoid content 325.19±0.294 mg( ...
... Except for few highly pathogenic viruses, no antiviral drug has been approved for treatment of viral infections in humans. Plant extracts, selected based on their ethno-medical use, represent an important source of compounds for the development of novel candidate antiviral drugs. This especially concerns plants with ethnomedical records on their use in treatment of viral infections. To identify an ...
... Elaeocarpus sylvestris var. ellipticus (ES), a plant that grows in Taiwan, Japan, and Jeju Island in Korea. ES root bark, known as “sanduyoung,” has long been used in traditional oriental medicine. ES is also traditionally used to treat anxiety, asthma, arthritis, stress, depression, palpitation, nerve pain, epilepsy, migraine, hypertension, liver diseases, diabetes, and malaria. However, lack of ...
... Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet is used traditionally in Northern Cameroon to treat memory impairment, anxiety, insomnia and depression. Investigating the effect of Bombax costatum stem bark aqueous extract (BC) on depression associated with amnesia and vascular disorder, using a chronic mild unpredictable stress (CMUS) model in rats for 30 days. Sucrose Preference Test (SPT), Forced Swimming T ...
Cláudio Roberto Novello; Elisangela Düsman; Rodolfo Bento Balbinot; Jéssica Carreira de Paula; Celso Vataru Nakamura; João Carlos Palazzo de Mello; Maria Helena Sarragiotto
Croton; active ingredients; antileishmanial properties; bark; cytotoxicity; diterpenoids; drug therapy; fractionation; hexane; leishmaniasis; lupeol; macrophages; research
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... Nowadays, new leishmanicidal drugs are needed and natural products arise as a promising alternative source. Therefore, bioguided fractionation of a hydroethanolic extract from the stem bark of Croton echioides Baill. were conducted based on its antileishmanial activity. Two novel neo-clerodane diterpenoids methyl-15,16-epoxy-3,13(16),14-neo-clerodatrien-17,18-dicarboxylate (1) and dimethyl-3-oxo-1 ...
... The search for antileishmanial plants used in traditional medicine led to the choice of CH₂Cl₂–MeOH (1:1) crude extract of the fruits and stem bark of Pentadesma butyracea Sabine (Clusiaceae) which displayed good activity in vitro against Leishmania donovani 1S (MHOM/SD/62/1S) promastigotes during preliminary screening with IC₅₀ values 5.96 and 26.43 μg mL⁻¹, respectively. The fractionation of bot ...
... AIM: This study was done to develop a seed decontamination treatment for organic seeds against plant pathogens (Acidovorax citrulli and Xanthomonas campestris) using essential oil (EO) vapours without affecting the seeds' germination rate. METHODS AND RESULTS: By using a diffusion assay and determining minimum inhibitory and lethal concentrations, we screened two EO vapours which were most inhibit ...
... Two new furoquinoline alkaloids, named 1'-oxo-isoplatydesmine (1) and demethoxyacrophylline (2), as well as 11 known alkaloids (3-13) were isolated from the root bark of Dictamnus dasycarpus Turcz. The structures of 1 and 2 were established by detailed spectroscopic elucidation, such as 1 D & 2 D NMR and HRMS, etc. The unexpected autoracemization of 1 was discussed based on the stereochemistry of ...
... Antimony is present in water by natural causes but is also mobilized in the environment by anthropogenic activities, particularly mining. Considering its toxicological behavior, antimony removal from contaminated groundwater and mine effluents is necessary. In this work, Sb(III) and Sb(V) removal from aqueous solution was studied using a resin prepared from pine bark tannins. Subsequent iron loadi ...