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Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia
Brassica tournefortii Gouan, commonly known (Aslooz) in Tunisia, is an annual plant, native to the North Africa and Middle East. Brassica species are used as food, their young leaves can be cooked, providing nutrients and health-giving phytochemicals such as phenolic compounds, polyphenols and carot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36501432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11233393 |
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author | Tlili, Hajer Arfa, Abdelkarim Ben Boubakri, Abdelbasset Hanen, Najjaa Neffati, Mohamed Doria, Enrico |
author_facet | Tlili, Hajer Arfa, Abdelkarim Ben Boubakri, Abdelbasset Hanen, Najjaa Neffati, Mohamed Doria, Enrico |
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description | Brassica tournefortii Gouan, commonly known (Aslooz) in Tunisia, is an annual plant, native to the North Africa and Middle East. Brassica species are used as food, their young leaves can be cooked, providing nutrients and health-giving phytochemicals such as phenolic compounds, polyphenols and carotenoids. Phytochemical composition and bioactivity of Brassica tournefortii leaf extracts, collected from four different bioclimatic zones in Tunisia, are investigated in the present study. Results showed that location and climatic variations can alter the phytochemical composition of B. tournefortii. Interestingly, HPLC analysis enabled identifying lutein and beta-carotene at high concentrations, especially in extracts of B. tournefortii collected from Gabes (B2) (344 µg/g of lutein) and B. tournefortii collected from Zarzis (B3) (1364 µg/g of beta-carotene). In particular, the antioxidant activity measured by DPPH assay showed that the extract of the plants collected from the growing region of Zarzis exhibits the highest antioxidant activities (0.99 mg/mL). All the Brassica tournefortii extracts showed a relevant antiproliferative activity, especially toward the Caco-2 cell line. These preliminary data resulted in being useful to correlate growth environmental conditions with different accumulation of metabolites in Brassica species still being poorly studied. |
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spelling | pubmed-97393652022-12-11 Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia Tlili, Hajer Arfa, Abdelkarim Ben Boubakri, Abdelbasset Hanen, Najjaa Neffati, Mohamed Doria, Enrico Plants (Basel) Article Brassica tournefortii Gouan, commonly known (Aslooz) in Tunisia, is an annual plant, native to the North Africa and Middle East. Brassica species are used as food, their young leaves can be cooked, providing nutrients and health-giving phytochemicals such as phenolic compounds, polyphenols and carotenoids. Phytochemical composition and bioactivity of Brassica tournefortii leaf extracts, collected from four different bioclimatic zones in Tunisia, are investigated in the present study. Results showed that location and climatic variations can alter the phytochemical composition of B. tournefortii. Interestingly, HPLC analysis enabled identifying lutein and beta-carotene at high concentrations, especially in extracts of B. tournefortii collected from Gabes (B2) (344 µg/g of lutein) and B. tournefortii collected from Zarzis (B3) (1364 µg/g of beta-carotene). In particular, the antioxidant activity measured by DPPH assay showed that the extract of the plants collected from the growing region of Zarzis exhibits the highest antioxidant activities (0.99 mg/mL). All the Brassica tournefortii extracts showed a relevant antiproliferative activity, especially toward the Caco-2 cell line. These preliminary data resulted in being useful to correlate growth environmental conditions with different accumulation of metabolites in Brassica species still being poorly studied. MDPI 2022-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9739365/ /pubmed/36501432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11233393 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tlili, Hajer Arfa, Abdelkarim Ben Boubakri, Abdelbasset Hanen, Najjaa Neffati, Mohamed Doria, Enrico Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title | Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title_full | Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title_fullStr | Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title_full_unstemmed | Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title_short | Biochemical Composition and Biological Activities of Various Population of Brassica tournefortii Growing Wild in Tunisia |
title_sort | biochemical composition and biological activities of various population of brassica tournefortii growing wild in tunisia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36501432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11233393 |
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