First finds of Prunus domestica L. in Italy from the Phoenician and Punic periods (6th–2nd centuries bc)

Ucchesu, Mariano; Sarigu, Marco; Vais, Carla Del; Sanna, Ignazio; Droogmans, Guy; Grillo, Oscar; Bacchetta, Gianluigi

doi:10.1007/s00334-017-0622-2

Cited by 28 publications

(21 citation statements)

References 56 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It constitutes a main crop predominating in Europe as well as southwest Asia. [ 5 ] Its dried fruits, the prunes, have recently been recognized as a beneficial food item with various health‐improving properties, such as alleviating leucorrhoea and adjusting irregular menstrual cycle or as a laxative. Besides, it showed a powerful antioxidant activity due to its high content of many polyphenolics as caffeoylquinic acid different isomers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside: a lignan from prunes (Prunus domestica) attenuates oxidative stress, hyperglycaemia and hepatic toxicity in vitro and in vivo

Youssef

Ashour

El-Beshbishy

et al. 2020

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objectives This study aimed to explore the pharmacological properties of pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (PG), isolated from prunes. Methods In-vitro antioxidant activity was assessed using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and 2,2'-azino-bis [3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid]diammonium salt (ABTS) assays. In-vivo hepatoprotective activity was evaluated using CCl 4-induced hepatotoxicity mouse model. The antihyperglycaemic activity was determined in vitro using α-glucosidase and α-amylase inhibiting activity and in vivo using streptozotocin-treated model. Molecular modelling was done on α-amylase, α-glucosidase, aldose reductase and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma. Key findings Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside showed promising antioxidant activity in FRAP and ABTS assays with total antioxidant capacity equal 418.47 and 1091.3 µmol/g in terms of ascorbic acid, respectively. PG (50 mg/kg b.w.) exhibited a hepatoprotective activity in vivo as it lowered AST and ALT levels. PG showed a potent in-vitro antihyperglycaemic activity as it inhibited αglucosidase with an IC 50 value of 48.13 μg/ml. PG caused a prominent decline in serum glucose level by 37.83% in streptozotocin-treated mice with promising elevation in insulin level of 25.37%. Oxidative stress markers were reduced by PG, and it showed a high fitting on α-amylase and α-glucosidase active sites. Conclusions Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside is a natural entity combating oxidative stress, hepatic damage and diabetes.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside: a lignan from prunes (Prunus domestica) attenuates oxidative stress, hyperglycaemia and hepatic toxicity in vitro and in vivo

Youssef

Ashour

El-Beshbishy

et al. 2020

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…All specimens in the UCL archaeobotanical reference collection; scale bars 1 cm that wild and domesticated populations fall towards different ends of a morphological spectrum seems clear. Indeed, studies employing geometric morphometrics (GMM) on grapes (Vitis vinifera) (Pagnoux et al 2015;Bacilieri et al 2017), as well as on other taxa such as olives (Olea europaea) (Terral et al 2004;Newton et al 2014), plums (Prunus domestica) (Ucchesu et al 2017) and dates (Phoenix dactylifera) (Rivera et al 2014;Gros-Balthazard et al 2016), which factor out size and focus instead on shape, demonstrate statistically shape differences between wild and cultivated forms of these fruits, as well as among different cultivar groups. Domesticated forms have higher L:W ratios and tend to have more pointed (acute to acuminate) ends.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits

Fuller

2017

Veget Hist Archaeobot

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper asks whether we can identify a recurrent domestication syndrome for tree crops (fruits, nuts) and track archaeologically the evolution of domestication of fruits from woody perennials. While archaeobotany has made major contributions to documenting the domestication process in cereals and other annual grains, long-lived perennials have received less comparative attention. Drawing on examples from across Eurasia, comparisons suggest a tendency for the larger domesticated fruits to contain seeds that are proportionally longer, thinner and with more pointed (acute to attenuated) apices. Therefore, although changes in flavour, such as increased sweetness, are not recoverable, seed metrics and shape provide an archaeological basis for tracking domestication episodes in fruits from woody perennials. Where available, metrical data suggest length increases, as well as size diversification over time, with examples drawn from the Jomon of Japan (Castanea crenata), Neolithic China (Prunus persica) and the later Neolithic of the Near East (Olea europaea, Phoenix dactylifera) to estimate rates of change. More limited data allow us to also compare Mesoamerica avocado (Persea americana) and western Pacific Canarium sp. nuts and Spondias sp. fruits. Data from modern Indian jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana) are also considered in relation to seed length:width trends in relation to fruit contents (flesh proportion, sugar content). Despite the long generation time in tree fruits, rates of change in their seeds are generally comparable to rates of phenotypic evolution in annual grain crops, suggesting that gradual evolution via unconscious selection played a key role in initial processes of tree domestication, and that this had begun in the later Neolithic once annual crops had been domesticated, in both west and east Asia.

show abstract

“…A number of studies have likewise attempted to distinguish wild and cultivated fruit species, as well as their different varieties, through morphometric and DNA analyses [24,[142][143][144][145][146][147]. The findings of the morphometric approach to 6th century BC grape pips from the south of France, for example, suggest cultivation [129,148].…”

Section: What Is New?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence of Arboriculture in the 1st Millennium BC along the Mediterranean’s “Far West”

Pérez‐Jordà

Alonso

Rovira³

et al. 2021

Agronomy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper presents the history of the introduction and expansion of arboriculture during the 1st millennium BC from the South of the Iberian Peninsula to the South of France. The earliest evidence of arboriculture at the beginning of the 1st millennium hails from the south of the Iberia from where it spread northward along the peninsula’s eastern edge. The different fruits (grape, olive, fig, almond, pomegranate and apple/pear) arrived together in certain areas in spite of uneven distribution and acceptance by local communities. Grape was the crop with the greatest diffusion. The greater diversity of crops in the southern half of the peninsula is also noteworthy. Their development paved the way for a commercial agricultural model in some territories where fruits and their derivatives, such as wine and oil, played vital roles.

show abstract

First finds of Prunus domestica L. in Italy from the Phoenician and Punic periods (6th–2nd centuries bc)

Cited by 28 publications

References 56 publications

Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside: a lignan from prunes (Prunus domestica) attenuates oxidative stress, hyperglycaemia and hepatic toxicity in vitro and in vivo

Pinoresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside: a lignan from prunes (Prunus domestica) attenuates oxidative stress, hyperglycaemia and hepatic toxicity in vitro and in vivo

Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits

The Emergence of Arboriculture in the 1st Millennium BC along the Mediterranean’s “Far West”

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About