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Antimalarial Evaluation of the Chemical Constituents of Hairy Root Culture of Bixa orellana L. [PDF]

Molecules, 2014
Over 216 million malaria cases are reported annually worldwide and about a third of these cases, primarily children under the age of five years old, will not survive the infection.
Julie Clark, Taotao Ling, Fabricio Medina-Bolivar   +2 more
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Traditional Uses, Chemical Constituents, and Biological Activities of Bixa orellana L.: A Review [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Bixa orellana L., popularly known as “urucum,” has been used by indigenous communities in Brazil and other tropical countries for several biological applications, which indicates its potential use as an active ingredient in pharmaceutical products.
Daniela de Araújo Vilar, Marina Suênia de Araujo Vilar, Túlio Flávio Accioly de Lima e Moura, Fernanda Nervo Raffin, Márcia Rosa de Oliveira, Camilo Flamarion de Oliveira Franco, Petrônio Filgueiras de Athayde-Filho, Margareth de Fátima Formiga Melo Diniz, José Maria Barbosa-Filho   +8 more
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Taninos hidrolisáveis em Bixa orellana L. [PDF]

Química Nova, 2006
The aqueous material found in the fruits of Bixa Orellana L. was collected, dried, and characterized using several experimental techniques, namely phytochemical analysis in order to identify the biologically active constituents, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy for vibrational analysis, and X-ray powder diffraction in order to identify ...
Ricardo Jorge Cruz Lima, Antonio Jeferson de Deus Moreno, Solange Fernanda Loureiro de Castro, José de Ribamar Santos Gonçalves, Antonio Benedito de Olivera, José Marcos Sasaki, Paulo de Tarso Cavalcante Freire   +6 more
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The Bioprospecting of Bixa orellana L. for the Selection of Characters with Biological Activity. [PDF]

Metabolites
A meta-analysis of 28 sources of information was conducted, considering different variables in Bixa orellana, with the aim of identifying bioprospective variables. Variables were approached, such as the organ of extraction and extraction method, with 63 biochemical classes and 20 for biological activity, and their states were codified.
Guerrero-Lagunes LA, Ruiz-Posadas LM, Cadena-Iñiguez J, Soto-Hernández RM, Avendaño-Arrazate CH, Aguirre-Medina JF, Soto-Mendoza C, Aguirre-Cadena JF.   +7 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Kinetics and bixine extraction time from achiote (Bixa Orellana L.). [PDF]

J Food Sci Technol, 2022
The effects of the use of solvents (96% ethanol and PEG 400), solute ratios: solvent (1: 4 and 1: 6 w/w), extraction temperatures (50 and 60 °C) and leaching techniques (conventional and assisted by ultrasound) on the concentration and time of extraction of bixin from Achiote (Bixa Orellana L.) were evaluated.
David SJ, Julián GC, Liliana VC, Ayala-Aponte AA, Liliana SC.   +4 more
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Chromosome-scale, single haploid assembly of achiote (Bixa orellana) [PDF]

BMC Genomic Data
Objectives Bixa orellana, commonly known as achiote, is the domesticated species within the Bixa genus. It is a commercially important plant due to its high bixin content, primarily used as a pigment in the food industry.
Meric C. Lieberman, Margarita Aguilar-Espinosa, David Chan-Rodriguez, Luca Coma, Renata Rivera-Madrid, Isabelle M. Henry   +5 more
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Design and development of annatto (Bixa orellana L.) seed separator machine. [PDF]

J Food Sci Technol, 2016
A small, continuous power operated machine with a capacity of 132 kg/h was designed, fabricated and evaluated its performance for separation of annatto (Bixa orellana L.) seeds from freshly harvested pods. Physical and engineering parameters of annatto pods and seeds were evaluated to design a machine.
Math RG, Ramesh G, Nagender A, Satyanarayana A.   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

An efficient in vitro propagation methodology for Annatto (Bixa orellana L.). [PDF]

Physiol Mol Biol Plants, 2011
Efficient methods were developed for both in vitro seed germination and micropropagation of an economically important dye yielding multipurpose tree, Bixa orellana L. Mature seeds were inoculated onto Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with different concentrations of gibberellic acid (GA3).
Joseph N, Siril EA, Nair GM.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Color measurements in annatto (Bixa orellana L.) seeds [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Food Technology
Brazil has emerged as the world's largest producer of annatto seeds (Bixa orellana L.). Fortunately, the increase in national production has been accompanied by an improvement in the quality of this raw material.
Paulo Roberto Nogueira Carvalho, Mariana Aparecida Almeida da Silva, João Victor Silva de Oliveira, Eliane Gomes Fabri, Marta Gomes da Silva   +4 more
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Comportamento higroscópico do extrato seco de urucum (Bixa Orellana L) Hygroscopic behavior of annatto (Bixa Orellana L) dried extract

Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 2008
Neste trabalho, objetivou-se determinar a higroscopicidade do urucum na forma de extrato seco. Neste estudo foram obtidas as atividades de água do extrato seco de urucum para as temperaturas de 10 a 50ºC e teores de água entre 6 e 22% base úmida.
George Carlos dos Santos Anselmo, Mário Eduardo R. M. Cavalcanti Mata, Edson Rodrigues   +2 more
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