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UV-B radiation as an elicitor of secondary metabolite production in plants of the genus Alternanthera

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018
Ultraviolet B radiation has been described as a potential elicitor agent of the synthesis of secondary metabolites in plants. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the production of betalains and total flavonoids, as well as the antioxidant ...
Fátima Rosane S. Klein, Andressa Reis, Alítcia M. Kleinowski, Renata T. Telles, Luciano do Amarante, José A. Peters, Eugenia Jacira B. Braga   +6 more
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Effect of Extrusion Cooking on Bioactive Compounds in Encapsulated Red Cactus Pear Powder

Molecules, 2015
Red cactus pear has significant antioxidant activity and potential as a colorant in food, due to the presence of betalains. However, the betalains are highly thermolabile, and their application in thermal process, as extrusion cooking, should be ...
Martha G. Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Carlos A. Amaya-Guerra, Armando Quintero-Ramos, Esther Pérez-Carrillo, Teresita de J. Ruiz-Anchondo, Juan G. Báez-González, Carmen O. Meléndez-Pizarro   +6 more
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Halophytic resilience in extreme environments: adaptive strategies of Suaeda schimperi in the Red Sea's hyper-arid salt marshes

Plant, Soil and Environment
Suaeda schimperi, a halophyte native to the Red Sea's hyper-arid salt marshes, thrives in its extreme conditions (high salinity, minimal rainfall, and elevated temperatures).
Farag Ibraheem, Mohammed Albaqami, Eman M. Elghareeb   +2 more
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Betalains as Natural Dyes and Applications

Sains Natural
Betalains are natural pigments that include betacyanin and betaxanthin, found in plants such as beets and cacti. In the food industry, betalains are used as natural colorants due to their color stability and health benefits, including antioxidant and ...
Tasya Fauziah, Okta Suryani
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LC–MS/MS, GC–MS and molecular docking analysis for phytochemical fingerprint and bioactivity of Beta vulgaris L.

Scientific Reports
The plants that we consume in our daily diet and use as a risk preventer against many diseases have many biological and pharmacological activities. In this study, the phytochemical fingerprint and biological activities of Beta vulgaris L.
Özge Üst, Emine Yalçin, Kültiğin Çavuşoğlu, Burak Özkan   +3 more
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Establishment of an Efficient Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Hairy Root Transformation System for Functional Analysis in Passion Fruit

Plants
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims), belonging to the Passifloraceae family, is an economically important plant in tropical and subtropical regions. The advances in functional genomics research of passion fruit have been significantly hindered by its ...
Jiayi Pan, Yiping Zheng, Tiancai Wang, Pengpeng Xiong, Kaibo Cui, Lihui Zeng, Ting Fang   +6 more
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the autotetraploid yellow pitaya provides novel insights into evolution of trait patterning in pitaya species with different ploidy

Genome Biology
Background Yellow pitaya (Selenicereus megalanthus, 2n = 4x = 44) breeding remains severely hindered due to the lack of a reference genome. Results Here, we present a high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of yellow pitaya using PacBio HiFi ...
Qamar U. Zaman, Ali Raza, Liu Hui, Mian Faisal Nazir, Vanika Garg, Muhammad Ikram, Guoqing Wang, Wei Lv, Darya Khan, Aamir Ali Khokhar, Zhang You, Annapurna Chitikineni, Babar Usman, Cui Jianpeng, Xulong Yang, Shiyou Zuo, Peifeng Liu, Sunjeet Kumar, Mengqi Guo, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Girish Dwivedi, Yong-Hua Qin, Rajeev K. Varshney, Hua-Feng Wang   +23 more
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Non-thermal Production of Natural betalain Colorant Concentrate from Red Beet Extract by Using the Osmotic Distillation

Nutrition and Food Sciences Research, 2016
Background and Objectives: Red beet extract concentrate can be used as a natural colorant in food products; however, destructive effects of thermal methods to produce juice concentrate decrease nutritional value in the final product.
Nazanin Amirasgari, Hossein Mirsaeedghazi   +1 more
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<i>Ullucus tuberosus</i>: A Review of Its Biology, Nutritional Profile, Phytochemistry, and Food Industry Applications. [PDF]

Foods
Bolaños-Narciso A, Asto-Rodriguez E, Paucar-Menacho LM, Castillo-Martinez WE.   +3 more
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The 2A linker outperforms NAL10 in bicistronic translational efficiency for transgene stacking. [PDF]

Hortic Res
Deng YJ, Zhang RR, Duan AQ, Tan SS, Liu SS, Xiong AS.   +5 more
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