<i>Prosopis farcta</i> Seeds: Potential Source of Protein and Unsaturated Fatty Acids?

Lajnef, Houda Ben; Mejri, Houda; Feriani, Anouar; Khemiri, Sheyma; Saadaoui, Ezzeddine; Nasri, Nizar; Tlili, Nizar

doi:10.1007/s11746-015-2660-1

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“…Indeed, previous studies on numerous plantseeds have suggested the effect of the environmental conditions (precipitation and temperature) on the composition of the fatty acids. Aslam et al (2009), Schulte et al (2013) and BenLajnef et al (2015) have reported the effect of temperature and precipitation on palmitic acid, oleic acid and linoleic acid composition, which support our findings. Youzbachi et al (2012) have suggested that in 12 Tunisian A. cyanophylla, linoleic acid (61.11-65.45%) and oleic acid (19.67-22.85%) are the major fatty acids.…”

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Fatty acids and triacylglycerols composition from Tunisian Acacia species seed oil

Youzbachi

Trabelsi

Elfalleh

et al. 2019

Arabian Journal of Chemistry

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Recently, plant seeds that have not been enough explored and exploited are cheap sources of a lot of natural molecules for industrial applications. The aim of the present study was to evaluate for the first time the composition of fatty acids and triacylglycerols (TAG) of mature unexploited seeds of some Acacia species (Acacia cyclops, Acacia ligulata and Acacia salicina) harvested in Tunisia in order to reveal their potential for human consumption.Results showed that, Acacia seed oils were mainly unsaturated (more than 71%). The polyunsaturated fatty acids were the major fractions (52-68%) with the linoleic acid as the major fatty acid (more than 52%), followed by oleic acid (15-27%) as monounsaturated fatty acid. The TAG composition was significantly different among the three Acacia species. PLL, PLO, LnLO, OLL, OOL, and OOO were the major forms. Acacia seed oil could be used as potential source of oil with high industrial value; nevertheless in vivo tests are essential to confirm its safety before use. Ó 2015 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Fatty acids and triacylglycerols composition from Tunisian Acacia species seed oil

Youzbachi

Trabelsi

Elfalleh

et al. 2019

Arabian Journal of Chemistry

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“…23 Oil extracted from seeds was analyzed and found containing a high concentration of protein (18%), unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) and low total phenolic content (1.7 mgGAE g -1 ). 24 Aqueous extract of dry aerial parts was prepared and total phenolic content was measured and found 17.3 mgGAE g -1 . 25 HPLC analysis of acetone and methanol (successively) extract of different parts of the plant, harvested from various locations.…”

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“…Highly active. 24 Aqueous extract of aerial parts was tested with FRAP and ORAC methods and found moderately active. 25 Various extracts of aerial parts (including ultra-sonic assisted) were prepared and tested for antioxidant activity (DPPH): moderate.…”

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Antifungal and anti-termite activities, total phenolic content of Prosopis Farcta extracts; and attempts to develop weed biocontrol method against it

Azab

2019

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Prosopis farcta is a widespread weed in the Near East and its an invasive plant of southwestern parts of the USA. Despite being sufficiently studied in the past, some of its activities were not published. In this research, we studied the antifungal and anti-termite activities of four extracts of the plant aerial parts: aqueous, ethanolic, ethyl acetate and hexane. In addition, since the published reports of total phenolic content (TPC) are not consistent, we tested this as well. We also tested the potential of the aqueous extract of Carya illinoinensis as possible weed biocontrol against P. farcta. The n-Hexane extract had the highest antifungal and anti-termite activities. TPC was found around 13.9 mg of gallic acid equivalent for 1 g of dry ethanolic extract (highest). The attempts to use an aqueous extract of C. illinoinensis for weed biocontrol of P. farcta achieved very limited success

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“…respectively for the n-hexane, methylene chloride, ethyl acetate and n-butanol extracts compared to ascorbic acid as standard (89.2%). The IC 50 value of the ABTS free radical activity of the methanol extract of P. farcta fruits growing in Tunisia was 270 μg/ml (Lajnef et al, 2015). To the best of our knowledge, there are limited reports about the antioxidant activity of P. farcta using the ABTS assay, but there are available data about other assays that is, the antioxidant activity of four solvent extracts from pod and seed of P. farcta was evaluated using DPPH assay, and the IC 50 of the tested extracts from pod part were 1.0, 6.15, 3.55 and 7.75 µg/ml respectively for ethanol, methanol, octanol and n-heptane extracts, while and the IC 50 of the tested extracts from seed part were 2.0, 1.51, 0.95 and 4.45 µg/ml respectively for ethanol, methanol, octanol and n-heptane extracts (Poudineh et al, 2015).…”

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“…(Family Fabaceae) is a little prickly spiny shrub; it is native of United States, Kuwait, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Northern Africa, and South Western Asia (Sharifi-Rad et al, 2014). Different phytochemicals were reported to be isolated and identified from the plant viz., volatile constituents (Harzallah-Skhiri et al, 2006), proteins and unsaturated fatty acids (Lajnef et al, 2015), and flavonoids (Direkvand-Moghadam et al, 2014). A literature survey revealed that P. farcta has been used in the treatment of neurological disorders (Mollashahi et al, 2013) and cholesterol level (Omidi et al, 2013).…”

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Chemical constituents and biological activities of different solvent extracts of Prosopis farcta growing in Egypt

Saad¹,

Ghareeb²,

Abdel‐Aziz³

et al. 2017

J. Pharmacognosy Phytother.

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Different solvent extracts from the aerial part of Prosopis farcta growing in Egypt have been biologically evaluated by studying their antimicrobial, anticancer and antioxidant activities. Furthermore, the chemical analysis using GC/MS has been performed for the promising extracts n-hexane and methylene chloride, and this analysis led to the identification of twenty six and thirty two compounds respectively from n-hexane and methylene chloride. The major compound identified in the n-hexane is (Z) 9,17octadecadienal (10.60%) while for methylene chloride is tricosanoic acid (9.24%). In addition, chromatographic isolation of the ethyl acetate and n-butanol extracts resulted in the isolation of four compounds which were identified as; dihydrokaempferol-3-O-α-L-rhamnoside (1), apigenin (2), 4′methoxyquercetin (tamarixetin) (3) and acacetin-7-O-α-L-rhamnoside (4). n-hexane and methylene chloride showed moderate antimicrobial activities against three microbes for each, that is, Shigella spp., Escherichia coli and Proteus vulgaris for n-hexane and Erwinia spp., Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermis for methylene chloride. On the other hand, the ethyl acetate showed higher antimicrobial activities against Shigella spp., Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans. Likewise nbutanol extract showed higher activity against Shigella spp., Erwinia spp., E. coli, P. vulgaris, S. epidermis and Candida albicans. Moreover, the anticancer activities were evaluated against four human tumor cell lines namely; HepG-2, HeLa, PC3 and MCF-7. The n-butanol extract showed the highest activity against MCF-7 cell line with IC 50 of 5.6 μg/ml compared to 5-fluorouracil with IC 50 of 5.4 μg/ml, while the ethyl acetate showed the highest activity against Hela cell line with IC 50 of 6.9 μg/ml compared to 5-fluorouracil with IC 50 of 4.8 μg/ml. Also, the inhibition percentages (I%) of ABTS radical were 83.1, 82.0, 87.2 and 87.0% respectively for the n-hexane, methylene chloride, ethyl acetate and n-butanol extracts, respectively, compared to ascorbic acid with 89.2%. In, conclusion the different extracts of P. farcta aerial part showed promising antimicrobial, anticancer and antioxidant activities, in which may be return to their identified bioactive secondary metabolites.

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Prosopis farcta Seeds: Potential Source of Protein and Unsaturated Fatty Acids?

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Fatty acids and triacylglycerols composition from Tunisian Acacia species seed oil

Fatty acids and triacylglycerols composition from Tunisian Acacia species seed oil

Antifungal and anti-termite activities, total phenolic content of Prosopis Farcta extracts; and attempts to develop weed biocontrol method against it

Chemical constituents and biological activities of different solvent extracts of Prosopis farcta growing in Egypt

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