scholarly journals Avaliação morfológica de Ananas comosus var. erectifolius (L. B. Smith) Coppens & F. Leal-Bromeliacea

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. e20010915284
Author(s):  
Meiciane Ferreira Campelo ◽  
Osmar Alves Lameira ◽  
Ruanny Karen Vidal Pantoja Portal Moreira ◽  
Allan Cristiam Santos Ramires

O objetivo desse trabalho foi determinar descritores morfológicos de acessos de curauá através de caracteres morfológicos visando à avaliação dos germoplasmas, na Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, em Belém, PA. Foram estudados sete caracteres morfológicos quantitativos de 42 acessos de curauá, totalizando 210 indivíduos, conservados in vivo no Horto de Plantas Medicinais. Os dados foram submetidos as analises multivariadas, realizado a seleção direta e seleção com reanálise agrupadas em dois métodos e com base na distância Euclidiana média utilizada na formação dos agrupamentos pelos métodos Unweighted Paired Group Method Using ArithmeticAverages -UPGMA de otimização de Tocher e para análise de componentes principais. Dos caracteres avaliados nenhum se mostrou redundante, logo não houve descartes. Com base na distância Euclidiana média apresentaram três menores distâncias 0,052; 0,084 e 0,085 entre pares de acessos e permitiram separá-los em três grupos divergentes pelo método UPGMA e pelo método de Tocher houve a formação de quatro grupos divergentes. Os acessos de Ananas comosus var.erectifolius possuem variabilidade morfológica de acordo com os sete caracteres quantitativos em estudo, sendo os caracteres comprimento da folha, altura da planta e número de folhas os que mais contribuíram para a divergência entre os acessos.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e23210615283
Author(s):  
Ruanny Karen Vidal Pantoja Portal Moreira ◽  
Osmar Alves Lameira ◽  
Meiciane Ferreira Campelo ◽  
Allan Cristiam Santos Ramires

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar acessos de jaborandi identificando os descritores morfológicos para a espécie. Foram avaliados 25 acessos, conservados in vivo na Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, em Belém, PA, totalizando 125 indivíduos, para oito caracteres morfológicos quantitativos. Os dados foram submetidos as analises multivariadas, realizado a seleção direta e seleção com reanálise agrupadas em dois métodos e com base na distância Euclidiana média utilizada na formação dos agrupamentos pelos métodos Unweighted Paired Group Method Using ArithmeticAverages -UPGMA de otimização de Tocher e para análise de componentes principais. Dos oito caracteres avaliados segundo os dois procedimentos utilizados nenhum se mostrou redundante, logo não houve descarte. As dissimilaridades encontradas com base na distância euclidiana - média padronizada apresentaram três menores distâncias 0,35; 0,44 e 0,46 entre pares de acessos e permitiram separá-los em três grupos divergentes pelos métodos UPGMA e pelo método de Tocher houve a formação de quatro grupos distintos. Dois caracteres apresentaram as maiores contribuições para a divergência, sendo eles largura e comprimento da folha, com 35,4%. Portanto, os acessos avaliados de jaborandi possuem variabilidade morfológica de acordo com os caracteres quantitativos: número de folíolos/folha, altura da planta; largura do folíolo, comprimento do pecíolo, comprimento da folha, largura da folha; comprimento do folíolo e comprimento da inflorescência, sendo os caracteres largura e comprimento da folha os que mais contribuíram para a divergência entre os acessos.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e23110615282
Author(s):  
Meiciane Ferreira Campelo ◽  
Osmar Alves Lameira ◽  
Ruanny Karen Vidal Pantoja Portal Moreira ◽  
Allan Cristiam Santos Ramires
Keyword(s):  

O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar e determinar os descritores morfológicos de acessos de ipeca. Foram avaliados 66 acessos de ipeca conservados in vivo na Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, em Belém, PA, totalizando 330 indivíduos, para cinco caracteres morfológicos quantitativos. Os dados foram submetidos as analises multivariadas, realizado a seleção direta e seleção com reanálise agrupadas em dois métodos e com base na distância Euclidiana média utilizada na formação dos agrupamentos pelos métodos Unweighted Paired Group Method Using ArithmeticAverages -UPGMA de otimização de Tocher e para análise de componentes principais. Dos cinco caracteres avaliados segundo os dois procedimentos utilizados nenhum se mostrou redundante, logo não houve descartes. Com base na distância Euclidiana média apresentaram três menores distâncias 0,09; 0,17 e 0,20 entre pares de acessos e permitiram separá-los em três grupos divergentes pelo método UPGMA e pelo método de Tocher houve a formação de dois grupos divergentes. Três caracteres apresentaram as maiores contribuições para a divergência, a largura da folha, comprimento do pecíolo e altura da planta, com 80,04 %. Diante disso, todos os caracteres apresentaram contribuição para diferenciação entre acessos os acessos de C. Ipecacuanha, sendo largura da folha, comprimento do pecíolo e altura da planta os que respectivamente mais contribuíram para a divergência entre os acessos.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 240-245
Author(s):  
Jude Okokon ◽  
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Kenneth Opara ◽  
John Udobang ◽  
Hemant Bankehde ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 4760-4766
Author(s):  
Hartati R ◽  
Suarantika F ◽  
Fidrianny I

Ananas comosus L. Merr, known as pineapple, belongs to the Bromeliaceae family. This plant has been used as traditional medicine and continues until now in conventional herbal medicine. The pineapple was distributed in some countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and originated from South America. This article delved the scientific work about Ananas comosus focussing their usage as traditional medicine, chemical compounds and biological activities. All of the pieces of information were obtained from the scientific literature such as Science Direct, Google Scholar, Scopus and PubMed. Based on the literature survey,different parts of pineapple (Ananas comosus) are used in traditional medicine, used asan anti-inflammatory agent,anti-oedema, digestive disorder, antimicrobial, vermicide, and purgative. Phytochemical compounds from A. comosus have been provided, including ascorbic acid, quercetin, flavones-3-ol, flavones, and ferulic acid. The crude extracts of A. comosus have many pharmacological activities such as anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial. This discovery becomes possible due to scientific isolation and in vivo or in vitro analysis of A.comosus.


2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ahmed ◽  
M.D. Laing ◽  
I.V. Nsahlai

AbstractEthanol extracts of 25 plant species were screened for anthelmintic effects against Haemonchus contortus. Ethanol extracts of each plant were used at various concentrations (10, 20 and 30%) to treat 10-day faecal cultures, incubated at 27°C with control cultures which were treated with ethanol for 48 h. Five plants with high efficacies (Ananas comosus, Aloe ferox, Allium sativum, Lespedeza cuneata and Warburgia salutaris) were selected from the first screening for further investigation using ethanol, dichloromethane and water extracts at four concentrations (2.5, 5, 10 and 20%). Ethanol was the most effective solvent. Larval counts decreased with increasing extract concentrations, of which 10 and 20% had similar effects. Lespedeza cuneata caused more than 70% mortality at all concentrations. However, there remains a need to assess in vivo efficacy of these plants.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmat Sayyid Zharfan ◽  
Priyo Budi Purwono ◽  
Arifa Mustika

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the main cause of nosocomial infection which is responsible for 10% of hospital-acquired infection. Pseudomonas aeruginosa tends to mutate and displays potential for development of antibiotic resistance. Approximately, 10% of global bacterial isolates are found as Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pseudomonas aeruginosa have a quite tremendous severity index, especially on pneumonia and urinary tract infections, even sepsis, which 50% mortality rate. Pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) has antimicrobial properties. The active antimicrobial compounds in Ananas comosus L. Merr include saponin and bromelain. This research aims to find the potency of antimicrobial effect of pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) extract towards Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa specimen is obtained from patient’s pus in orthopaedic department, Dr Soetomo Public Hospital, Surabaya. Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa specimen is resistant to all antibiotic agents except cefoperazone-sulbactam. This research is conducted by measuring the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) through dilution test with Mueller-Hinton broth medium. Pineapple extract (Ananas comosus L. Merr.) is dissolved in aquadest, then poured into test tube at varying concentrations (6 g/ml; 3 g/ml; 1.5 g/ml; 0.75 g/ml, 0.375 g/ml; and 0.1875 g/ml). After 24 hours’ incubation, samples are plated onto nutrient agar plate, to determine the Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC). The extract of pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) has antimicrobial activities against Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) could not be determined, because turbidity changes were not seen. The Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) of pineapple extract (Ananas comosus L. Merr) to Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is 0.75 g/ml. Further study of in vivo is needed.


Phytomedicine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faezeh Monji ◽  
P Ganesan Adaikan ◽  
Lang Chu Lau ◽  
Abrar Al-Mahmood Siddiquee ◽  
Baharudin Bin Said ◽  
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Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2249
Author(s):  
Carolina Varilla ◽  
Massimo Marcone ◽  
Lisete Paiva ◽  
Jose Baptista

Bromelain is a complex combination of multiple endopeptidases of thiol and other compounds derived from the pineapple fruit, stem and/or root. Fruit bromelain and stem bromelain are produced completely distinctly and comprise unique compounds of enzymes, and the descriptor “Bromelain” originally referred in actuality to stem bromelain. Due to the efficacy of oral administration in the body, as a safe phytotherapeutic medication, bromelain was commonly suited for patients due to lack of compromise in its peptidase efficacy and the absence of undesired side effects. Various in vivo and in vitro studies have shown that they are anti-edematous, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancerous, anti-thrombotic, fibrinolytic, and facilitate the death of apoptotic cells. The pharmacological properties of bromelain are, in part, related to its arachidonate cascade modulation, inhibition of platelet aggregation, such as interference with malignant cell growth; anti-inflammatory action; fibrinolytic activity; skin debridement properties, and reduction of the severe effects of SARS-Cov-2. In this paper, we concentrated primarily on the potential of bromelain’s important characteristics and meditative and therapeutic effects, along with the possible mechanism of action.


2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kogeethavani Ramachandran ◽  
Uyub Abdul Manaf ◽  
Latiffah Zakaria

AbstractThe Erwinia species are well-known pathogens of economic importance in Malaysia causing serious damage to high-value fruit crops that include pineapple [Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.] and papaya (Carica papaya L.).The 16S rRNA sequence using eubacteria fD1 and rP2 primers, identified two bacteria species; Dickeya zeae from pineapple heart rot, and Erwinia mallotivora from papaya dieback. Phylogenetic analysis based on the neighbor-joining method indicated that all the bacterial isolates clustered in their own taxa and formed monophyletic clades. From the pathogenicity test, all isolates of D. zeae and E. mallotivora showed pathogenic reactions on their respective host plants. Genetic variability of these isolates was assessed using repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) fingerprinting. The results indicated interspecies, and intraspecies variation in both species’ isolates. There were more polymorphic bands shown by rep-PCR fingerprints than enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) and BOX- PCRs, however both species’ isolates produced distinguishable banding patterns. Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages (UPGMA) cluster analysis indicated that all Dickeya and Erwinia isolates from the same species were grouped in the same main cluster. Similarity among the isolates ranged from 77 to 99%. Sequencing of 16S rRNA using eubacteria fD1 and rP2 primers, and rep-PCR fingerprinting revealed diversity among Dickeya and Erwinia isolates. But this method appears to be reliable for discriminating isolates from pineapple heart rot and papaya dieback.


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