Abstract The increasing interest in healthy and natural foods has raised the attention towards uncommon or unexplored ingredients, such as edible flowers. These products are proven to be a rich source of bioactive compounds, for example, vitamins polyphenols that play an important role health promotion disease prevention. However, plant species with flowers numerous most them still need studied this aim. high richness North-Western Italy provides interesting perspectives use wild flowers,...

Lavandula angustifolia Mill. has a great economic importance in perfumery, cosmetics, food manufacturing, aromatherapy, and pharmaceutical industry. This species finds its phytosociological optimum the sub-Mediterranean region. Latitudinal altitudinal gradients are expected to affect diversification peripheral alpine populations. In this study, phenotypic traits including morphometric parameters, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) essential oils (EOs) were analyzed lavender populations...

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is cultivated worldwide. Its stigmas represent the highest-priced spice and contain bioactive compounds beneficial for human health. cultivation commonly occurs in open field, yield can vary greatly, from 0.15 to 1.5 g m−2, based on several agronomic climatic factors. In this study, we evaluated saffron soilless systems, where plants benefit a wealth of nutrients without competition with pathogens or stresses related nutrient-soil interaction. addition, as plant...

Tepals constitute the most abundant bio-residues of saffron (Crocus sativus L.). As they are a natural source polyphenols with antioxidant properties, could be processed to generate valuable biorefinery products for applications in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries, becoming new income while reducing bio-waste. Proper storage by-products is important biorefining dehydration widely used herb sector, especially highly perishable harvested flowers. This study aimed deepen...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) establish mutualistic symbiotic associations with plant roots and act as biofertilizers by enhancing nutrient water uptake. Moreover, AMF colonization may influence the biosynthesis of bioactive compounds in medicinal aromatic plants. There is limited information on Crocus sativus L. (saffron) their effect crop performances spice quality. In present work we verified efficiency root mycorrhization potted conditions, then evaluated yield quality saffron...

Saffron is a well-known spice, produced for long time, mainly in the Mediterranean area. In last few years, saffron has been seen as an alternative crop diversification of agricultural production and new source income, due to its high price, including Alpine areas. Apart from constituted by stigmas, provides amount fresh tepals, which have so far considered waste. Recently, studies on composition tepals revealing their potential rich bioactive compounds. this study, we evaluated productive...

In this study, 17 edible flowers (Allium ursinum L., Borago officinalis Calendula Centaurea cyanus Cichorium intybus Dianthus carthusianorum Lavandula angustifolia Mill., Leucanthemum vulgare (Vaill.) Lam., Paeonia Primula veris Robinia pseudoacacia Rosa canina pendulina Salvia pratensis Sambucus nigra Taraxacum officinale Weber, and Tropaeolum majus L.) were investigated to assess their sensory profile at harvest shelf life bioactive compounds dynamics during cold storage. The emerging...

Forty one simple sequence repeats were isolated from two microsatellite enriched libraries of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.). After screening, 17 selected loci characterized and evaluated on a set 31 cultivars clones Algerian Californian germplasm. All primer pairs produced an amplification product the expected size detected high polymorphism among analysed samples. These nuclear repeat (SSR) markers are to be very effective tool for evaluating genetic diversity in Acrosstaxa showed...

Six polymorphic sequence-tagged microsatellite sites (STMSs) were used to characterize 65 accessions of old garden roses [OGRs ( Rosa L. spp.)] from seven botanical sections and 13 horticultural groups. Aims the study define genetic profiles provide information useful for classification pedigree reconstruction OGRs. In roses, a precise is difficult due repeated hybridization carried out in breeding; OGRs are classified groups on basis their original parentage or morphological traits. A total...

In this review, the technique of soil-less cultivation horticultural crops is analysed, main differences between and traditional techniques are described, advantages disadvantages each method in relation to others identified. Soilless has revolutionised various sectors vegetable floriculture production, recent years have also seen interest being shown by Italian fruit crop producers, particularly those involved table grape viticulture. The issues related use described needs substrate, water...

Aromatic plants are commonly produced for ornamental, cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Their morphological traits the amounts compositions of volatile substances essential oils (EOs) can be influenced by several factors, including cultivation technique. In present study, influence substrate composition on Lavandula angustifolia Mill. production was evaluated. particular, substrates containing mixes peat (P), green compost (C) and/or demolition aggregates (A) were tested in following ratios:...

The sustainable management of weeds is one the main challenges in agriculture. Recent studies have demonstrated potential plant phytotoxins, such as ailanthone from Ailanthus altissima (Mill) Swingle, bioherbicides. Since a complex extract may be more active than single compound, we explored phytotoxicity A. extracts obtained leaves, samaras, rachises, and secondary roots, evaluated their application for weed control horticulture. pre-emergence activity all was over varying concentrations on...

Abstract The application of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), sequence tagged microsatellite site (STMS) and expressed tag (EST) markers to study the genetic relationships in an evergreen azalea gene pool was investigated. STMS EST revealed a higher distance detection capacity than AFLPs, which, nevertheless, were most efficient marker system due their highest capacity. Similarity matrices showed weak, yet significant, correlations when Mantel's test applied. To assess...

Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling plant growth and development. These groups of naturally occurring substances trigger physiological processes at very low concentrations, which mandate sensitive techniques for their quantitation. This paper describes method to quantify endogenous (±)-2-cis-4-trans-abscisic acid, indole-3-acetic indole-3-propionic indole-3-butyric acid. The combines high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode array fluorescence detection single...

This paper describes a method to detect and quantitate the endogenous plant hormones (±)-2-cis-4-trans-abscisic acid, (-)-jasmonic salicylic acid by means of ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) in hybrid rose leaf matrices. Deuterium-labeled [(2)H6] (+)-2-cis-4-trans-abscisic (±)-jasmonic [(2)H4]-salicylic were used as internal standards. Rose samples (10 mg) extracted with methanol/water/acetic (10:89:1) subsequently purified on an Oasis MCX 1...