scholarly journals A laboratory method to estimate the efficiency of plant extract to neutralize soil acidity

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo E. Cassiolato ◽  
Mário Miyazawa ◽  
Anderson R. Meda ◽  
Marcos A. Pavan
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Plant Extract ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Soil Acidity ◽  
Acid Soil ◽  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Plant Sample ◽  
Laboratory Methods ◽  
Naoh Solution

Water-soluble plant organic compounds have been proposed to be efficient in alleviating soil acidity. Laboratory methods were evaluated to estimate the efficiency of plant extracts to neutralize soil acidity. Plant samples were dried at 65ºC for 48 h and ground to pass 1 mm sieve. Plant extraction procedure was: transfer 3.0 g of plant sample to a becker, add 150 ml of deionized water, shake for 8 h at 175 rpm and filter. Three laboratory methods were evaluated: sigma (Ca+Mg+K) of the plant extracts; electrical conductivity of the plant extracts and titration of plant extracts with NaOH solution between pH 3 to 7. These methods were compared with the effect of the plant extracts on acid soil chemistry. All laboratory methods were related with soil reaction. Increasing sigma (Ca+Mg+K), electrical conductivity and the volume of NaOH solution spent to neutralize H+ ion of the plant extracts were correlated with the effect of plant extract on increasing soil pH and exchangeable Ca and decreasing exchangeable Al. It is proposed the electrical conductivity method for estimating the efficiency of plant extract to neutralize soil acidity because it is easily adapted for routine analysis and uses simple instrumentations and materials.

scholarly journals Alleviating soil acidity through plant organic compounds

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson R. Meda ◽  
Marcelo E. Cassiolato ◽  
Marcos A. Pavan ◽  
Mário Miyazawa
Keyword(s):  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Soil Acidity ◽  
Soil Column ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Pigeon Pea ◽  
Drainage Water ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Oil Seed

A laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of water soluble plant extracts on soil acidity. The plant materials were: black oat, oil seed radish, white and blue lupin, gray and dwarf mucuna, Crotalaria spectabilis and C. breviflora, millet, pigeon pea, star grass, mato grosso grass, coffee leaves, sugar cane leaves, rice straw, and wheat straw. Plant extracts were added on soil surface in a PVC soil column at a rate of 1.0 ml min-1. Both soil and drainage water were analyzed for pH, Ca, Al, and K. Plant extracts applied on the soil surface increased soil pH, exchangeable Ca ex and Kex and decreased Al ex. Oil seed radish, black oat, and blue lupin were the best and millet the worst materials to alleviate soil acidity. Oil seed radish markedly increased Al in the drainage water. Chemical changes were associated with the concentrations of basic cations in the plant extract: the higher the concentration the greater the effects in alleviating soil acidity.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN KITIN SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF FASE DIAM KROMATOGRAFI LAPIS TIPIS DALAM PRAKTIKUM KIMIA ORGANIK

Vidya Karya ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahmani Syahmani ◽  
Leny Leny ◽  
Rilia Iriani ◽  
Noor Elfa
Keyword(s):  
Stationary Phase ◽  
Plant Extract ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Plant Sample ◽  
Shrimp Waste

Abstract. Utilization of chitin as a stationary phase of TLC to separate the compound components from plants had been carried out. The objective of this study was to investigate (1) the effectiveness of chitin as a stationary phase in TLC to separate the compound components of plants, and (2) composition of compounds in plant extracts that can be separated by chitin. Research method is experiment in laboratory. Sampling technique of plant extract (mahogany seed, turmeric rhizome, and pandanus leaf) using random sampling technique, while shrimp shrimp skin is shrimp waste from Indu Manis Banjarmasin factory. Data were analyzed descriptively qualitative. The results showed that chitin rendemen successfully isolated from shrimp skin was 36,44%. Chitin is effectively used as an alternative to stationary phase in TLC to separate the compound components from plant sample extracts (mahogany seeds, pandanus leaves, and turmeric rhizomes). Keywords: chitin, stationary phase of TLC, and separation of plant compound components. Abstrak. Telah dilakukan penelitian tentang pemanfaatan kitin sebagai fasa diam KLT untuk memisahkan komponen senyawa dari tumbuhan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui (1) efektivitas kitin sebagai fasa diam pada KLT untuk memisahkan komponen senyawa dari tumbuhan, dan (2) komposisi senyawa dalam ekstrak tumbuhan yang mampu dipisahkan oleh kitin. Metode penelitian adalah eksperimen di laboratorium. Teknik pengambilan sampel ekstrak tumbuhan (biji mahoni, rimpang kunyit, dan daun pandan) menggunakan teknik random sampling, sedangkan kulit udang merupakan limbah kulit udang dari pabrik Indu Manis Banjarmasin. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rendaman kitin yang berhasil diisolasi dari kulit udang sebesar 36,44%. Kitin cukup efektif digunakan sebagai alternatif fasa diam  pada KLT untuk memisahkan komponen senyawa dari ekstrak sampel tumbuhan (biji Mahoni, daun Pandan, dan rimpang Kunyit).  Kata Kunci: kitin, fase diam KLT, dan pemisahan komponen senyawa tumbuhan.

scholarly journals Plant Extract Loaded Nanoparticles

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Patihul Husni ◽  
Zelika Mega Ramadhania
Keyword(s):  
Plant Extract ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Targeted Delivery ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
Control Release ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Flexible Control ◽  
Taste And Odor ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Poorly Water Soluble

Plant extract, a natural source containing complex mixture of compounds, offers many properties such as antiparasitic, antibiotic, antioxidant, anti-hypertensive, antiviral, insecticide, anticancer, antifungal, hypoglycemic properties. Recent research has been focused on developing formulation the plant extracts not only to deliver them safely but also to enhance its therapeutic efficacy. Nanotechnology-based strategies have been proposed as a system that can be used to formulate plant extracts. Plant extract loaded nanoparticles (NPs) is aimed to facilitate in crossing the biological barriers, to increase bioavailability of poorly water-soluble phytochemicals, to encapsulate mixture compounds of different phytochemicals, to provide targeted delivery of phytochemicals to specific organs resulting in low toxicity, to get effective purification process,  to mask unpleasant taste and odor, to protect sensitive phytochemicals from biological (e.g. enzyme, pH) and environmental (e.g. light, temperature, humidity) degradation, to control release of encapsulated phytochemicals, and to provide a more flexible control over the size and shape of the NPs. This review is focused on plant extract loaded NPs including its advantages, stages for developing formulation of plant extract loaded NPs, and nanosystem used to loading plant extract. In addition, this review also depicts studies which have been conducted by many researchers in developing plant extract loaded NPs. The data were collected from published journals with 21 and 39 journals as primary and supporting literatures, respectively. Plant extracts loaded NPs could be a promising delivery system for active phytochemical contained in the plant extract which is not only to deliver them safely but also to enhance its therapeutic efficacy.Keywords: plant, extract, nanoparticle

scholarly journals Evaluation of oat extracts on the efficiency of lime in soil

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo E. Cassiolato ◽  
Anderson R. Meda ◽  
Marcos A. Pavan ◽  
Mário Miyazawa ◽  
José C. de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Soil Profile ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Soil Acidity ◽  
Acid Soil ◽  
Subsoil Acidity ◽  
Variable Charge ◽  
Oat Cultivars ◽  
Soluble Components

The low mobility of the soluble components of surface-applied lime, limits their ability to reduce subsoil acidity in variable charge soils. Laboratory experiments were conducted with brazilian Oxisol to evaluate the effect of oat extracts on the mobility of surface applied calcium in form of CaCO3. The following oat cultivars were evaluated: Argentina 5VL3, UPF 90H400-2, IAPAR 61, IA96101-b, SI 83400, EMBRAPA 29, LD 9102, FAPA 1, ER 93247, ER 90148, ER 89144, ER 93152, Alpha 94124, Alpha 94206 and Preta comum. Oat extracts and lime were applied at rates of 10 and 5 Mg ha-1, respectively. Effect of lime without plant extracts on soil acidity was limited in the upper 10 cm of the profile. Lime in the presence of oat extracts increased pH and Ca ex and decreased Al ex about 20cm deep. The SI83400 and UPF90H400-2 were the best oat extracts as Ca-carrier into the acid soil profile. The results suggested that soluble organic compounds from oat extracts are mobile and capable of detoxifying acid subsoil, by increasing liming efficiency.

scholarly journals Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines in Meat: Formation, Isolation, Risk Assessment and Inhibitory Effect of Plant Extracts

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1466
Author(s):  
Hafiz Rehan Nadeem ◽  
Saeed Akhtar ◽  
Tariq Ismail ◽  
Piero Sestili ◽  
Jose Manuel Lorenzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Aromatic Amines ◽  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Heating Time ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines ◽  
Isolation And Identification ◽  
Cooked Meats

Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) are potent carcinogenic compounds induced by the Maillard reaction in well-done cooked meats. Free amino acids, protein, creatinine, reducing sugars and nucleosides are major precursors involved in the production of polar and non-polar HAAs. The variety and yield of HAAs are linked with various factors such as meat type, heating time and temperature, cooking method and equipment, fresh meat storage time, raw material and additives, precursor’s presence, water activity, and pH level. For the isolation and identification of HAAs, advanced chromatography and spectroscopy techniques have been employed. These potent mutagens are the etiology of several types of human cancers at the ng/g level and are 100- to 2000-fold stronger than that of aflatoxins and benzopyrene, respectively. This review summarizes previous studies on the formation and types of potent mutagenic and/or carcinogenic HAAs in cooked meats. Furthermore, occurrence, risk assessment, and factors affecting HAA formation are discussed in detail. Additionally, sample extraction procedure and quantification techniques to determine these compounds are analyzed and described. Finally, an overview is presented on the promising strategy to mitigate the risk of HAAs by natural compounds and the effect of plant extracts containing antioxidants to reduce or inhibit the formation of these carcinogenic substances in cooked meats.

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SOIL ACIDITY PROBLEM IN ALBERTA AND NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. PENNEY ◽  
M. NYBORG ◽  
P. B. HOYT ◽  
W. A. RICE ◽  
B. SIEMENS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Soil Ph ◽  
Soil Acidity ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Trifolium Pratense ◽  
Acid Soil ◽  
Acid Soils ◽  
Red Clover ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Crop Species

The amount of cultivated acid soil in Alberta and northeastern British Columbia was estimated from pH values of farm samples analyzed by the Alberta Soil Testing Laboratory, and the effect of soil acidity on crops was assessed from field experiments on 28 typical acid soils. The field experiments consisted of two cultivars of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and one cultivar each of rapeseed (Brassica campestris L.), red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) grown with and without lime for 2 yr. There are about 30,000 ha of soils with a pH of 5.0 or less where soil acidity seriously restricts yields of all four crop species. There are approximately 300,000 ha with a soil pH of 5.1–5.5 where liming will on the average increase yields of alfalfa by 100%, yields of barley by 10–15%, and yields of rapeseed and red clover by 5–10%. There are a further 1,600,000 ha where soil pH ranges from 5.6 to 6.0 and liming will increase yields of alfalfa by approximately 50% and yields of barley, rapeseed and red clover by at least 4–5%.

scholarly journals Effects of plant extracts on antioxidant status and oxidant-induced stress in Caco-2 cells

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Aisling Aherne ◽  
Joseph P. Kerry ◽  
Nora M. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Plant Extract ◽  
Plant Extracts ◽  
Antioxidant Status ◽  
Cell Injury ◽  
Membrane Integrity ◽  
Neutral Red ◽  
Dna Integrity ◽  
Cell Membrane Integrity ◽  
Wide Range

Experimental evidence suggests that most herbs and spices possess a wide range of biological and pharmacological activities that may protect tissues against O2-induced damage. The objectives of the present study were: first, to determine the effects of plant extracts on the viability, membrane integrity, antioxidant status and DNA integrity of Caco-2 cells and second, to investigate the cytoprotective and genoprotective effects of these plant extracts against oxidative stress in Caco-2 cells. The plant extracts examined were rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), oregano (Origanum vulgare L.), sage (Salvia officinalis L.) and echinacea (Echinacea purpurea L.). Cell membrane integrity was assessed by the lactate dehydrogenase release assay. Viability was determined by the neutral red uptake assay (NRUA) and the concentration of compound that resulted in 50 % cell death (IC50) was calculated. Antioxidant status of the cells was assessed by measuring GSH content, catalase activity and superoxide dismutase activity. To examine their cytoprotective and genoprotective effects, Caco-2 cells were pre-treated with each plant extract for 24 h followed by exposure to H2O2. DNA damage was assessed by the comet assay and cell injury was determined by the NRUA. Rosemary was the most toxic (IC50 123 μg/ml) and echinacea the least toxic (IC50 1421 μg/ml). Sage was the only plant extract to affect the antioxidant status of the cells by increasing GSH content. Sage, oregano and rosemary protected against H2O2-induced DNA damage (olive tail moment and percentage tail DNA), whereas protection against H2O2-induced cytotoxicity was afforded by sage only.

Acidic Aqueous Extraction of Hypothalamic Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone to Study Biological Effects

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Shin ◽  
C. J. Howitt
Keyword(s):  
Luteinizing Hormone ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Acid Extraction ◽  
Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone ◽  
Releasing Hormone ◽  
Aqueous Solvent ◽  
Lh Rh

Several aqueous solvent systems were tested for their efficiency in extracting luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH) from rat hypothalamus. Although LH-RH is a water-soluble decapeptide, neutral distilled water extracted only 10% of the LH-RH obtained using acid extraction methods. The efficiency of the acid extraction procedure suggests that in the hypothalamus the releasing hormone is bound to a relatively large molecular weight compound. Using the acidic extraction procedure, we found that hypothalamic LH-RH content is significantly lower in the castrated animal than in the normal rat.

scholarly journals Sequential extraction and thermal desorption of mercury from contaminated soil and tailings from Mongolia

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1565-1573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Coufalík ◽  
Pavel Krásenský ◽  
Marek Dosbaba ◽  
Josef Komárek
Keyword(s):  
Sequential Extraction ◽  
Thermal Desorption ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Speciation Analysis ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Mercury Species ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Acidic Conditions ◽  
Desorption Method

AbstractMercury forms in contaminated environmental samples were studied by means of sequential extraction and thermal desorption from the solid phase. The sequential extraction procedure involved the following fractions: water soluble mercury, mercury extracted in acidic conditions, mercury bound to humic substances, elemental Hg and mercury bound to complexes, HgS, and residual mercury. In addition to sequential extraction, the distribution of mercury species as a function of soil particles size was studied. The thermal desorption method is based on the thermal decomposition or desorption of Hg compounds at different temperatures. The following four species were observed: Hg0, HgCl2, HgS and Hg(II) bound to humic acids. The Hg release curves from artificial soils and real samples were obtained and their applicability to the speciation analysis was considered.

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