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T1 SOME PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON PHYTOCHEMICALS AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM CULTIVATED IN CHITRAL, PAKISTAN
A1 R Abbasi
A1 S.Janjua
A1 A. Rehman
A1 K. William
A1 S. W. Khan
JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
JO JAPS
SN 1018-7081
VO 25
IS 3
SP 310
OP 313
YR 2015
FD 2015/06/01
DO DOI NA
AB The current study was conducted to analyze the phytochemicals and antioxidant potential of Fagopyrumesculentum which was cultivated in region of Chitral, Pakistan. The phenolics content in the methanolic extract of Fagopyrumesculentumwere analyzed by using Folin-Ciocalter reagent via spectrophotometer. To determine antioxidant activity, firstly DPPH and TLC were used and after confirmation of positive potential of Fagopyrum as antioxidant, DPPH assay and reducing power method were performed via spectrophotometer.As a result, Fagopyrumesculentum showed the strong antioxidant activity. The highest antioxidant activity was found at concentration 1 mg/mL (81.64%). The contents of flavonoids were estimated as 19.64 µg/250 µg of dry powder and percentage was 7.856 %. The contentof phenolics was 0.80 µg/25.97 µg of dry powder and percentage was 3.08 %. Thus, our preliminary study on grains of Fagopyrumesculentumconcluded that it hascompounds which can have pharmacological and medicinal importance and it can be used as antioxidant drug. i.e. Chitral, Pakistan was tested for its preliminary tests
K1 Phytochemicals and antioxidant potential, Fagopyrumesculentum, Chitral, Pakistan.
PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum
LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2015-JAPS-648