Salt-Tolerant Plants as Sources of Antiparasitic Agents for Human Use: A Comprehensive Review

Rodrigues, Maria João; Pereira, Catarina; Oliveira, M. Beatriz P.P.; Zengin, Gökhan; Custódio, Luísa

doi:10.3390/md21020066

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Section: Ehaloph and The Current Reviewmentioning

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“…These medicinal uses presumably relate to antibiotic properties and/or the content of specific chemicals within the plants. For example, Rodrigues et al [50] have reviewed the antiparasitic properties of halophytes and highlight the anthelmintic properties of Dysphania ambrosioides. In order to evaluate if external salinity influences the medicinal properties of salttolerant plants, we have looked at 102 papers on 65 species from 27 families within the whole range tolerance of species included in eHALOPH to determine if growth under saline conditions alters the content of antibiotic compounds (Category 7160.0 in Table 1), but could not find evidence that this had been investigated.…”

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Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants

García‐Caparrós

Al‐Azzawi

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2023

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Climate change is likely to affect the ability of world agricultural systems to provide food, fibre, and fuel for the growing world population, especially since the area of salinised land will increase. However, as few species of plants (less than 1% of all plant species) can tolerate saline soils, we believe it is important to evaluate their potential as crops for salinised soils. We have analysed the economic and potential economic uses of plants that are listed in the database eHALOPH, including the most tolerant species, halophytes. For nine main categories of economic value, we found a total of 1365 uses amongst all species listed in eHALOPH as of July 2022; this number reduced to 918 amongst halophytes. We did not find any obvious differences in rankings between the more tolerant halophytes and the whole group of salt-tolerant plants, where the order of use was medical, followed by forage, traditional medicine, food and drink, fuel, fuelwood, and bioenergy. While many species are potentially important as crops, the effects of salt concentration on their uses are much less well documented. Increasing salt concentration can increase, decrease, or have no effect on the concentration of antioxidants found in different species, but there is little evidence on the effect of salinity on potential yield (the product of concentration and biomass). The effect of salinity on forage quality again varies with species, often being reduced, but the overall consequences for livestock production have rarely been evaluated. Salt-tolerant plants have potential uses in the bioremediation of degraded land (including revegetation, phytoremediation, and extraction of NaCl) as well as sources of biofuels, although any use of saline water for the sustainable irrigation of salt-tolerant crops must be viewed with extreme caution.

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Section: Ehaloph and The Current Reviewmentioning

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Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants

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Al‐Azzawi

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Metabolomic Profiles and Biopharmaceutical Properties of Petrosimonia brachiata and P. nigdeensis from Turkey

De Gregorio,

Zhang,

Mahomoodally

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Halophytic plants possess a huge range of active constituents and medicinal benefits. In this study, extracts (water, ethanol, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, and n-hexane) of two halophytes of the genus Petrosimonia (P. brachiata and P. nigdeensis) were investigated for their phytochemical profiles and pharmacological properties. The phytochemical profiles of both species were investigated using an untargeted metabolomics approach based on high-resolution mass spectrometry. The two species show different polyphenolic profiles and these are influenced by the different extraction solvents used. The same extracts were used for different bioactivity assays. The results show that all extracts yielded total flavonoid and phenolic contents of 11.14–24.22 mg GAE/g and 3.15–22.03 mg RE/g, respectively. While extracts of both species demonstrated a radical scavenging ability in the ABTS assay (16.12–98.02 mg TE/g), only the polar and moderately polar extracts (water, ethanol, and ethyl acetate) showed scavenging potential in the DPPH assay (4.74–16.55 mg TE/g). A reducing potential was also displayed by all extracts in the CUPRAC and FRAP assays (26.02–80.35 mg TE/g and 31.70–67.69 mg TE/g, respectively). The total antioxidant capacity of the extracts ranged from 0.24 to 2.17 mmol TE/g, and the metal chelating activity ranged from 14.74 to 33.80 mg EDTAE/g. The water extracts possessed a higher metal chelating power than the other extracts. All extracts acted as inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (0.16–3.85 mg GALAE/g) and amylase (0.11–1.28 mmol ACAE/g). Moreover, apart from the water extracts, the other extracts also showed anti-butyrylcholinesterase activity (0.73–2.86 mg GALAE/g), as well as anti-tyrosinase (36.74–61.40 mg KAE/g) and anti-glucosidase (2.37–2.73 mmol ACAE/g) potential. In general, the water extracts were found to be weak inhibitors of the tested enzymes, while the ethanol extracts mostly showed an inhibitory effect. The obtained findings revealed the antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory properties of these two species and demonstrated that the solvent type used affected the pharmacological properties of the extracts and hence, can be useful to further investigate the active constituents yielded in the extracts and understand the mechanisms involved.

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Salt-Tolerant Plants as Sources of Antiparasitic Agents for Human Use: A Comprehensive Review

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Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants

Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants

Metabolomic Profiles and Biopharmaceutical Properties of Petrosimonia brachiata and P. nigdeensis from Turkey

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