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Effects of Bixa orellana L. Seeds on Hyperlipidemia

Phytotherapy Research, 2012
Bixa orellana L., urucum, or urucu, a native tropical tree of Central and South American rain forests is used to treat various diseases in popular medicine. In Ceará, Northeast of Brazil, the seeds of urucum have been used for the treatment of high lipid blood levels.
Jamile M, Ferreira, Daniel F, Sousa, Mariana B, Dantas, Said G C, Fonseca, Dalgimar B, Menezes, Alice M C, Martins, Maria Goretti R, deQueiroz   +6 more
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Nature of the Vitamin A Activity of Annatto Seed (Bixa orellana L.)

The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 2022
The high vitamin A activity of the petroleum ether extract of the annatto seed has been confirmed. It ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 international units of vitamin A per gram of extract. It was found that a standard mixture of 3-percent acetone in petroleum ether did not remove any vitamin A-active material from a magnesium oxide-hyflo supercel column, on ...
Leonardo Santamaría, María L. Martínez, Conrado F. Asenjo   +2 more
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BROMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ANNATTO (Bixa orellana L.) SEEDS

Agro Productividad
Objective: to carry out a bromatological and physicochemical analysis of local annatto seeds and a commercialpaste.Materials and Methods: local annatto seeds to which a physicochemical analysis was carried out whereash, humidity (weight difference), dry matter, proteins were determined.
Avalos-Fernández J., M., Del Rivero-Bautista, N., Hernández-Nataren, E., Acosta-Pech, R. G., Pereyra-Susan, J. P   +4 more
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Somatic Embryogenesis in Annatto (Bixa orellana L.)

2016
Our research group has pioneered the work on somatic embryogenesis of Bixa orellana (annatto), and since then we have directed efforts in understanding several aspects of this morphogenic pathway in annatto. Here, we present a synthetic description of such works, emphasizing anatomical analyzes and the characterization of the cellular alterations that ...
Elyabe Monteiro de Matos, Andréa Dias Koehler, Daniele Vidal Faria, Ludmila Nayara de Freitas Correia, Viviane Santos Moreira, Ana Claudia Ferreira da Cruz, Tatiana Souza Moraes, Diego Ismael Rocha, Virgínia Lúcia Fontes Soares, Vespasiano Borges de Paiva Neto, Marcio Gilberto Cardoso Costa, Wagner Campos Otoni   +11 more
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An integrated genetic linkage map of Bixa orellana L.

Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2019
Bixa orellana L. is a plant from the Bixaceae family commercialized for its high bixin contents. Recently, demand for this pigment has led to the development of strategies for its genetic improvement. Through molecular markers obtained by sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP), one β-cyclase marker and the two-way “pseudo-testcross” strategy an
Nayeli Romero-López, Francisco Luna-Martínez, Claudine Gallegos-Brito, Pedro Escobar-Turriza, Margarita Aguilar-Espinosa, Ruby Valdez-Ojeda, June Simpson, Renata Rivera-Madrid   +7 more
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Phytochemical Mapping to Comprehend the Bioactivity of Bixa orellana L.

Current Traditional Medicine
The "lipstick tree" is another name for the ornamental plant Bixa orellana L., which is indigenous to South and Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and other regions of Asia. The plant, also known as "Sinduri" or "Latkan," is utilized in the Indian food, dye, cosmetics, and traditional medicine sectors.
Mamta Thakur, Rashmi Saxena Pal, Yogendra Pal, MVNL Chaitanya   +3 more
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Development of carotenoid storage cells in Bixa orellana L. seed arils

Protoplasma, 2015
The arils of Bixa orellana L. seeds contain carotenoid storage cells (CSCs). The main compounds in these cells include bixin and norbixin, which are important pigments in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Although many studies have been conducted on these chemical constituents, the cellular events that occur during the development of the ...
Ricardo P, Louro, Laura J M, Santiago
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The biotechnology (genetic transformation and molecular biology) of Bixa orellana L. (achiote)

Planta, 2018
Genetic transformation allows for greater bixin or norbixin production in achiote. Knowledge of genes that control the biosynthesis of these important secondary metabolites will allow for targeted amplification in transgenic plants. Annatto is a natural dye or coloring agent derived from the seeds, or their arils, of achiote (Bixa orellana L.), and is ...
Jaime A, Teixeira da Silva, Judit, Dobránszki, Renata, Rivera-Madrid   +2 more
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Somatic embryogenesis and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in Bixa orellana L.

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2010
Establishment, maintenance, regeneration, and transformation of somatic embryos by both direct and indirect means (callus-mediated) was achieved for Bixa orellana, a tropical plant whose seeds produce commercially edible ‘annatto pigment,’ which mainly constitutes an apocarotenoid called bixin.
Rangan Parimalan, Akshatha Venugopalan, Parvatam Giridhar, G. A. Ravishankar   +3 more
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Bixa orellana L. Bixaceae

2020
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann, Carolina Romero   +2 more
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