Rhanterium epapposum is a plant of the asteraceae family. Dpph 1,1diphenyl2picrylhydrazyl free radical scavenging activity. This was accomplished using curve estimation and simple linear. Germination studies in rhanterium epapposum oliv article pdf available in world applied sciences journal 7. Volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv, flavour and. Free radicals generation is involved in many disorders include nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs nsaidsinduced peptic ulcers 8. Allelopathic effect of arta calligonum comosum l extract on. The record derives from tica data supplied on 20120211 which reports it as an accepted name record 1f9475b1f90d4b579efa8ad395922d1d with original publication details. Eo free solutions were used as negative control, whereas standard. Scavenging the free radicals accumulating within the tissues is very important for protecting the organisms from many diseases. On the other hand, there is an increasing demand of the herbal medicines as they are safe, effective, economical, ecofriendly and free from deleterious effects. Wound healing potential of methanolic extracts of some plants.
Comparative study for the volatile oil constituents and. The essential oils of the aerial part of two asteraceae species, namely euryops arabicus steud. Reestablishment of native plants by seed germination in the state of kuwait 1. A complete list of national flowers by country with amazing pictures most countries of the world have a designated national flower that forms their floral emblem. The eos obtained using clevenger modified apparatus were characterized by high resolution gcms, while their antioxidant and antibacterial properties were examined by spectrophotometric and. Rhanterium epapposum, locally called arfaj is the national flower of kuwait.
It could be concluded that, the remarkable antidiarrheal activity of these plants attest to their utility in a wide range of stats of diarrhea. Asteraceae, a perennial bushy shrub common name arfaj is broadly distributed across saudi arabia, and is the only species of the genus found in the middle east collenette, 1999. The study aimed to compare the results obtained from volatile oil analysis of r. Rhanterium is a genus of dwarfshrubs in the plougmansspikenard tribe within the daisy family growing in the deserts of the middle east and northern africa. Treatment g l 1 days to first germination time to 50% germination pg% cv% 2. It has been observed that more than sixty percent of the commercially. The fresh plant samples were airdried in the shade for. Article information, pdf download for chemical composition and antioxidant. In fact it has completely disappeared from most parts of the country due to a combination of overgrazing, collecting for firewood and off road driving. Mar 23, 20 rhanterium epapposum is a plant of the asteraceae family. A study of rhanterium epapposum local name arfaj and haloxylon salicornicum local name remeth steppe was therefore effected to determine the seasonal variation in aboveground phytomass and percentage cover, and to investigate differences.
Scientific research and essays effectiveness of using. The oil analyzed by thin layer chromatography, the results of phytochemical analysis indicated that the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids. Evaluation of toxicity of rhanterium epapposum in wistar rats. Pdf alteration of the rhanterium epapposum plant community in. Red sea nubosindian tropical desert and semidesert 73 5. Read rapid vegetation regeneration in a seriously degraded rhanterium epapposum community in northern kuwait after 4 years of protection, journal of environmental management on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The essential oil was very rich in monoterpene compounds. Media in category rhanterium epapposum the following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. The considerable variations in germination between years lead us to study the variation in the size, mass and number of filled achenes in the capitulum. Rhanterium epapposum community has been a great success at the farm level and can be adopted in other farms. Influence of land degradation on the local rate of dust. Chemical diversity of essential oils from flowers, leaves, and.
This page was last edited on 18 february 2018, at 10. Agramonte c saleh ibrahim alqasoumi f adnan jathlan alrehaily f. Effects of rainfall and grazing on vegetation yield and. Fattaka, and rhanterium epapposum arfaj, from hail region, northern saudi arabia, against the larval stages of the dengue fever vector, aedes aegypti. Native to the deserts of the arabian peninsula including saudi arabia, kuwait and qatar where it is known locally as arfaj arabic. It is known that the plants have high antioxidant properties bahadori et al. Ethnobotanical study of indigenous medicinal plants of.
Desertification and land degradation has become a matter of increasing importance both locally and globally. Rhanterium epapposum arfaj, kuwait national flower i love q8. Synonymic checklists of the vascular plants of the world 2019. Effectiveness of using oils extracts of peganum harmala. Data analyses revealed that ethanolic extracts of both r. Volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv yaghmai. According to trotter and logan, plants which are used in some routine manner are more expected to be biologically active. Heres a list of countries and their national flowers. Each honey sample was collected in a sterile universal glass container and kept at. The biological tests were carried out using a vertical filter paper bioassay, where ticks must cross an area of the paper treated with repellent to approach host stimuli. It is an important first step in order to try to conserve the species and prevent its disappearance. To evaluate the medicinal uses of rhanterium epapposum oliv.
The economic feasibility of establishing arfaj community in a large scale has been assessed and found that the reported methodology could be effectively used with some modifications of the irrigation system in the field. Phytoremediation of oilpolluted desert soil in kuwait. Journal of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry extraction and evaluation of antioxidant activity of hibiscus cannabis. Rhanterium epapposum is an herbaceous plant widely distributed in the gulf region and used by bedouins as antiseptic for wounds, skin infections and in gastrointestinal disturbances. Rhanterium epapposum is a perennial shrub usually found northern part of kuwait is on the verge of extinction due to overgrazing and use as a source of firewood brown, 2003. Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of the essential oil. Although it is well known that precipitation has a significant impact on productivity and species richness of community or perennials, nevertheless, due to lack of measurements, especially longterm experiment data, there is little information on how quantity and. Rhanterium epapposum is an herbaceous plant widely distributed in the gulf. Antibacterial and antioxidant properties of the leaves and. Pdf germination studies in rhanterium epapposum oliv.
Rhanterium epapposum 60%, haloxylon salicornicum 30%, nitraria retusa and zygophyllum qatarense 10% are the dominant plant communities in the reserve 37. Eo free solutions were used as negative control, whereas standard antimicrobial agents were used as a positive control. Pdf alteration of the rhanterium epapposum plant community. Actually the plant is commonly known as rhanterium epapposum which is more popular and native to the deserts of saudi arabia and kuwait. Allelopathic effect of arta calligonum comosum l, her extract on seed germination of arfaj rhanterium epapposum oliv modhi alotaibi department of biology, college of science, princess nora bint abdul rahman university, riyadh, saudi arabia article published on september 22, 2014. Arfaj rhanterium epapposum once a common dwarf shrub in many northeastern parts of uae, overgrazing has led to the disappearance of the species in many locations. The antidiarrheal activity of these plants might be due to their high contents of flavonoids and tannins.
The national flower of kuwait is arfaj rhanterium epapposum. This study was conducted to investigate floristic composition and plant life forms of riyadh region and their ecological significance. Antibacterial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibition activity. Actually the plant is commonly known as rhanterium epapposum which is more popular and native to the deserts of saudi arabia and. Chemical composition and antimicrobial, insectrepellent and anticholinesterase activities. Jul 23, 2019 in this study, free living n2fixing bacteria were enriched and isolated from the rhizospheric soil of three keystone native plant species of kuwait. A linear relationship was found betweenestimated desert annual cover and biomass production.
The composition of the essential oil of rhanterium epapposum oliv. The species that gave the highest fl values are deliberated more encouraging candidate plants for indepth pharmacological. Jan 25, 2015 this page was last edited on 18 february 2018, at 10. The oil contained 107 volatile components of which 92% were terpenoids. Allelopathic effect of arta calligonum comosum l extract. The arfag rhanterium epapposum and harmel peganum harmala plants were collected from different locations of majmaah area in saudi arabia in the early flowering period march to april 2018 figure 2 and 3. The evaluation of 10 essential oils of geranium, pelargonium graveolens geraniaceae, were all shown to have repellent activity against nymphs of the medically important lone star tick, amblyomma americanum l. Ethnobotanical study of indigenous medicinal plants of jazan. Rhanterium species rhanterium epapposum name synonyms asteriscus arabicus velen.
Home pharmacogn j, vol 11, issue 1, janfeb, 2019 comparative study for the volatile oil constituents and antimicrobial activity of rhanterium epapposum oliv. The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the flowers of rhanterium adpressum coss. This plant consists of a complicated network of branches with small leaves and bright yellow flowers. Impact of precipitation patterns on biomass and species. As a result of damage caused during the first gulf war in 19901991, the kuwaiti environment suffered from drastic pollution caused by massive petroleum hydrocarbon contamination resulting from the destruction and burning of 700 oil wells across kuwait. Bioactivityguided investigation of geranium essential. Bioextract harnesses the power of online informatics tools for creating and customizing workflows. In saudi arabia, genus rhanterium is represented by r. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Read volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv, flavour and fragrance journal on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The essential oil eo of the aerial parts of rhanterium epapposum oliv.
All the experiments were performed in triplicate and mean of results is given in table 2. Early growth stages of the rare acridocarpus orientalis in. Annuals are an important component part of plant communities in arid and semiarid grassland ecosystems. In this study, free living n2fixing bacteria were enriched and isolated from the rhizospheric soil of three keystone native plant species of kuwait.
Users can query online sequence data, analyze it using a broad array of informatics tools web service or desktop, create and share custom workflows for repeated analysis, and save the resulting data and workflows in standardized reports. The arfaj plant consists of a complicated network of branches scattered with small thorny leaves and bright yellow flowers about 1. Liver of a fed 200 g r epapposum liet for 12 weeks, shoving cytoplasmic fatty vacuolation and necrosis of the hefatocytey hand e the lowest doi feed efficiencybut of the animals died dlring the course of the e. The eos obtained using clevenger modified apparatus were characterized by high resolution gcms, while their antioxidant and antibacterial properties were examined by. Remella1, nageswara rao kvv2, bhimji ambedkaru k3 department of pharmaceutical chemistry, acharya nagarjuna university, guntur, india. The oil was subsequently analyzed by both gcfid and gcms, simultaneously. Chemical diversity of essential oils from flowers, leaves. The potential anti helicobacter pylori and antioxidant. In vitro antioxidant activities of rhanterium suaveolens extracts.
Depression in growth and hepatonephropathy were severe in rats fed. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Molecules free fulltext phytochemical analysis and in. Asteraceae essential oils monoterpenes abstract objective. Aug 21, 2009 national flowers is the rhanterium epapposum. Potential antibacterial activity of some saudi arabia honey. Rhanterium epapposum is a plant of the family asteraceae. A note on the augmented zagreb index of cacti with fixed number of vertices and cycles. Reestablishment of native plants by seed germination. Five major plant communities are recognized haloxylon salicornicum, rhanterium epapposum, cyperus congolmoratus, zygophyllum qatarense, and panicum turgidum. Antibacterial and antioxidant properties of the leaves and stem essential oils eos of jatropha gossypifolia and their efficacies against infectious and oxidative stress diseases were studied in vitro.
Apr 17, 2019 riyadh region is one of the hardest habitats in saudi arabia with a hyperarid climate. Rhanterium is a genus of dwarfshrubs in the plougmansspikenard tribe within the daisy family growing in the deserts of the middle east and northern africa species. The current situation of rhanterium epapposum is quite critical in most areas of kuwait. Root associated bacteria were directly isolated from the root nodules of vachellia pachyceras. The antidiarrheal activity and phytoconstituents of some. Volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv yaghmai, mohammad shahram. Pdf on jan 1, 2009, majda khalil suleiman and others published germination studies in rhanterium epapposum oliv find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Lena honey rhanterium epapposum, large influx honey acacia tortilis, olive alaatm honey olea europaea, dahbianh honey carduus acicularis, and citrus honey citrus sinensis. A complete list of national flowers by country with amazing. Extracts of heliotropium bacciferum, rhanterium epapposum, achillea fragrantissima, artemisia herbaalba, haloxylon salicornicum, deverra triradiata, echinops hussoni, prosopis farcta, cyperus conglomeratus and astragalus spinosus were the. The free radicals play role in many diseases by causing damage and aging in the cells seo et al. The investigation led to the identification of 48 and 44 compounds for both plants, respectively.
Compositae growing in northeastern iran has been investigated by tlc, liquid. Arfaj is a forage plant, grazed on by sheep and camel in the desert. Ausaj lycium shawii desert plant, common in the uae in variety of habitats. Rhanterium epapposum is an excellent species for rangeland restoration and information on its germination ecology is meager. Saudi arabia, oman, united arab emirates, qatar, bahrain, kuwait, iraq, iran, pakistan rhanterium suaveolens desf. Rhanterium epapposum with 50% fl is the most efficient in treating diabetes in jazan communities. Essential oils extracted from two medicinal plants peganum harmala and rhanterium epapposum native to the arabian peninsula specially saudi arabia, were evaluated for their larvicidal effects and emergence of khapra beetle trogoderma granarium adults. Kuwait journal of science kjs a note on the minimum reduced reciprocal randic index of nvertex unicyclic graphs.
We present the first reported study of the effects of feeding rhanterium epapposum aerial parts at 20, 50, 100 and 200 g kg1 of standard diet to male wistar rats for 12 weeks. A range of types of polluted soils, including fresh oil lakes, dry oil lakes, and tarcretes, damaged desert wildlife. The product may not be sold, given, or assigned to another person or entity in the form it is downloaded from the site. Chemical composition and antimicrobial, insectrepellent and anticholinesterase activities author links open overlay panel betul demirci a hasan soliman yusufoglu b nurhayat tabanca c halide edip temel d ulrich r. Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of the. Seed germination of rhanterium epapposum in responses to aqueous extract of calligonum comosum stem. Pdf germination ecology of rhanterium epapposum oliv.
Rhanterium epapposum, echinops spinosus and echinops hussoni, were the least efficacy. Aug 01, 2003 read rapid vegetation regeneration in a seriously degraded rhanterium epapposum community in northern kuwait after 4 years of protection, journal of environmental management on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Arfaj arfaj rhanterium epapposum a dwarf shrub with spherical foliage and beautiful, large, yellowbrown inflorescences, the arfaj, the national flower of kuwait, kingdom plantae phylum tracheophyta class magnoliopsida order asterales family asteraceae genus rhanterium 1. Rhanterium epapposum, farsetia aegyptia, and haloxylon. The seed germination and seedling establishment of the rare acridocarpus orientalis were investigated to understand its requirements for further seedlings establishment in the united arab emirates uae.
Ecological significance of floristic composition and life. Native to the deserts of saudi arabia and kuwait where it is known locally as arfaj arabic. The protection of this reserve from all anthropogenic activities has resulted in a sequence of ecological changes leading to self rehabilitation of natural vegetation. Divulging diazotrophic bacterial community structure in. Samira omar asem and jose kaitharath2 kuwait institute for. In parallel the antimicrobial and antioxidant activities were evaluated. Apr 23, 2015 we evaluated the impacts of precipitation patterns annual precipitation, growingseason precipitation and spring precipitation on aboveground biomass, interannual variation of aboveground biomass, relative aboveground biomass and species richness of annuals across 29 years. The major components identified were the monoterpene hydrocarbons. Volatile components of rhanterium epapposum oliv, flavour. Phytochemical analysis and in vitro antimicrobial and free. Products under royalty free license can be used without liability to pay any license fees for multiple lifelong uses, or sales volume of final product after being paid for once. Picture archives flora of qatar asteraceae rhanterium epapposum rhanterium epapposum oliv. Certain genotypes of rhanterium epapposum, gynandiris sisyrinchium, haloxylon salicornium, lycium shawii, nitraria retusa, ochradenus baccatus and gypsophila capillaris, were selected and tissue culture technology was developed because of their potential for use in desert revegetation, phytoremediation and urban landscaping.
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