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Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) [BGN] is an easy-to-cultivate vegetable crop neglected over the past years. It is a drought-tolerant crop with nutritional and medicinal values and as a result, the crop is referred to as nutraceuticals. Based on this, there exist a need to review th...

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Autores principales: Udeh, Ebere Lovelyn, Nyila, Monde A., Kanu, Sheku Alfred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05205
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Nyila, Monde A.
Kanu, Sheku Alfred
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description Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) [BGN] is an easy-to-cultivate vegetable crop neglected over the past years. It is a drought-tolerant crop with nutritional and medicinal values and as a result, the crop is referred to as nutraceuticals. Based on this, there exist a need to review the beneficial potential (nutraceutical value) of this neglected and underutilized crop to protect and promote its cultivation for food (source of nutrients) and medicines especially among rural poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa. This review systematically examines the background information and uses of BGN. The antimicrobial properties of BGN were also considered and examined to ascertain its nutraceutical importance. BGN has been reported as a crop possessing antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. Clinically, the extracts of BGN have been reported to exhibit antimicrobial activities against bacteria such as Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae ATCC 700603, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus ATCC 33591, Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, yeast (Candida albicans) and mold (Aspergillus niger). This review outlines the uses of BGN as a functional food crop as well as its nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials. However, there exist paucity of knowledge and literature on the crop's antimicrobial activities especially against plant pathogens of economic importance. Hence, this review proposes that more research be geared towards assessing the nutraceutical value and antimicrobial potentials of this crop against plant pathogens of economic importance and the promotion of the crop's cultivation.
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spelling pubmed-75860762020-10-30 Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review Udeh, Ebere Lovelyn Nyila, Monde A. Kanu, Sheku Alfred Heliyon Review Article Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) [BGN] is an easy-to-cultivate vegetable crop neglected over the past years. It is a drought-tolerant crop with nutritional and medicinal values and as a result, the crop is referred to as nutraceuticals. Based on this, there exist a need to review the beneficial potential (nutraceutical value) of this neglected and underutilized crop to protect and promote its cultivation for food (source of nutrients) and medicines especially among rural poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa. This review systematically examines the background information and uses of BGN. The antimicrobial properties of BGN were also considered and examined to ascertain its nutraceutical importance. BGN has been reported as a crop possessing antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. Clinically, the extracts of BGN have been reported to exhibit antimicrobial activities against bacteria such as Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae ATCC 700603, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus ATCC 33591, Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, yeast (Candida albicans) and mold (Aspergillus niger). This review outlines the uses of BGN as a functional food crop as well as its nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials. However, there exist paucity of knowledge and literature on the crop's antimicrobial activities especially against plant pathogens of economic importance. Hence, this review proposes that more research be geared towards assessing the nutraceutical value and antimicrobial potentials of this crop against plant pathogens of economic importance and the promotion of the crop's cultivation. Elsevier 2020-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7586076/ /pubmed/33134573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05205 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 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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Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review
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title_full Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review
title_fullStr Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review
title_full_unstemmed Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review
title_short Nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean): A review
title_sort nutraceutical and antimicrobial potentials of bambara groundnut (vigna subterranean): a review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05205
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