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Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities

BACKGROUND: Dried roots of Sophora flavescens Aiton contain many phytochemicals that exhibit beneficial effects on human health. This study examined and compared the karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of three S. flavescens populations collected from the Danda, Hualien and...

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Autores principales: Lin, Tzu Che, Sung, Jih Min, Yeh, Mau Shing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28510911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-55-5
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description BACKGROUND: Dried roots of Sophora flavescens Aiton contain many phytochemicals that exhibit beneficial effects on human health. This study examined and compared the karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of three S. flavescens populations collected from the Danda, Hualien and Yuli of Taiwan and a population collected from Gansu, China. RESULTS: Karyotypes of the four populations were similar, with a diploid number of 2n = 18. The Hualien population produced more roots but with less matrine and oxymatrine contents in its root tissue than others. However, only the root of Danda population had a measurable level of naringenin. The dried root of Yuli population had greater ferric reducing antioxidant power and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity than that of the other populations. CONCLUSIONS: Thus, the collected S. flavescens populations, particularly the population collected from Danda, have the potential to be used in breeding programs. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1999-3110-55-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-54328172017-05-31 Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities Lin, Tzu Che Sung, Jih Min Yeh, Mau Shing Bot Stud Research BACKGROUND: Dried roots of Sophora flavescens Aiton contain many phytochemicals that exhibit beneficial effects on human health. This study examined and compared the karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of three S. flavescens populations collected from the Danda, Hualien and Yuli of Taiwan and a population collected from Gansu, China. RESULTS: Karyotypes of the four populations were similar, with a diploid number of 2n = 18. The Hualien population produced more roots but with less matrine and oxymatrine contents in its root tissue than others. However, only the root of Danda population had a measurable level of naringenin. The dried root of Yuli population had greater ferric reducing antioxidant power and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity than that of the other populations. CONCLUSIONS: Thus, the collected S. flavescens populations, particularly the population collected from Danda, have the potential to be used in breeding programs. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1999-3110-55-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5432817/ /pubmed/28510911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-55-5 Text en © Lin et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title_full Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title_fullStr Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title_full_unstemmed Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title_short Karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants Sophora flavescens Aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
title_sort karyological, morphological and phytochemical characteristics of medicinal plants sophora flavescens aiton grown from seeds collected at different localities
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28510911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-55-5
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