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Synthetic Seeds Vis-A-Vis Cryopreservation: An Efficient Technique for Long-Term Preservation of Endangered Medicinal Plants
Published in Amit Baran Sharangi, K. V. Peter, Medicinal Plants, 2023
Md. Nasim Ali, Syandan Sinha Ray
In dehydration method, explants (plant part used to initiate the in vitro culture) are dehydrated using a high concentration of osmoticum followed by dehydration under sterile air. In general, dehydration of samples pretreated with a high concentration of osmoticum (sucrose in most of the cases) is done using laminar airflow. Sucrose is commonly used to induce dehydration and freezing tolerance in the cell, is also commonly used as a cryoprotectant (Dumet et al., 1993). Among the sugars, sucrose was found effective to enhance resistance against dehydration during the storage of banana under glucose and fructose under liquid nitrogen (Helliot et al., 2002). Preculturing the sample with a high concentration of sucrose was found effective for cryopreservation of shoot tips of several plant species (Matsumoto et al., 1994; Pennycooke and Towill, 2000). This method is also modified into encapsulation dehydration. In this method before immersion to liquid nitrogen, the encapsulated explants are precultured in media having a high sugar level to improve the resistance capacity against dehydration and freezing under liquid nitrogen (Shatnawi and Johnson, 2004).
Meat Cute
Published in Phillip Joy, Megan Aston, Queering Nutrition and Dietetics, 2023
My partner, Logan, hates strawberries, hates Brussels sprouts. He finds asparagus disgusting and refuses to eat cherries because of the texture. Bananas give him heartburn. Apples are too sweet. The smell of pumpkin makes him nauseous, and he especially hates artichokes. Cauliflower, black beans, grapes, peas, lemons, avocados, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, oranges not in juice form, all vary in degrees of dislike. He somehow, miraculously, also received perfect scores on his tasting exams. He likes to tell me that he has a “perfect palate” and brags about his willingness to try anything once. He just happens to not like much. In terms of food preferences, I would say we could not be further apart from one another.
Plant Source Foods
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Banana is a tropical edible fruit of the herbaceous flowering plants belonging to two main species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana (family Musaceae). All edible banana fruits are seedless (75–76). More than 300 types of bananas are cultivated throughout the world (75). Banana is a very popular fruit in the world market and is consumed as staple food in many countries. It is either eaten raw or processed, and also as a functional ingredient in various food products. Banana is known to be rich in carbohydrates (23 g/100), dietary fibers (2.6 g/100), soluble sugars (12.2 g/100), proteins (1.1 g/100), and lipids (0.33 g/100) (76). Starch in banana flesh changes into sugars (fructose and sucrose) when ripe. Banana is rich in calories. A single banana provides 90 Kcal energy, but low in fat, making it the best food to give quick energy supply for athletes during competition. In addition, the fruit also prevents muscular contractions as it contains significant amounts of vitamins and minerals (76).
Effects of Green Banana Biomass (Musa spp.) on Laboratory Parameters of Animal Models of Wistar Mice under Hyperlipidic Diet
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2021
Nathália Ferreira Lousek, Neiane Cristina Santos, Maria Clara Marcola Dourado, Flávia Melo Pontieri, Monatha Nayara Guimarães Teófilo, Frank Sousa Castro, Sérgio Henrique Nascente Costa, Graziela Torres Blanch, Arissa Felipe Borges, Clayson Moura Gomes
The green banana biomass has many beneficial properties for the human body. Clinical studies have shown banana consumption in children and adults collaborate to maintaining homeostasis and restore organic balance, especially correlated with gastrointestinal symptoms. A study evaluated the use of green banana pulp in children with diarrheal syndrome and found that the addition of the food resulted in a reduction in the amount of stools, an improvement in the quality of stools, and reduction in the duration of the disease, leading to a significant clinical recovery (19). Another study demonstrated that the intake of four grams of native banana starch for four weeks by type 2 diabetics resulted in weight loss and increased insulin sensitivity (20). Thus, studies in humans and the continuation of the proposal to use green banana biomass in clinical studies is important in order to demonstrate the benefits of functional food and contribute to population health using a natural and cheap resource.
Angio-Suppressive Effect of Partially Purified Lectin-like Protein from Musa acuminata pseudostem by Inhibition of VEGF-Mediated Neovascularization and Induces Apoptosis Both In Vitro and In Vivo
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2019
Balaji Kyathegowdanadoddi Srinivas, Madhu Chakkere Shivamadhu, Shankar Jayarama
The plant, the Musa acuminata, commonly known as banana belongs to the Musaceae family. Owing to their high medicinal value, various parts of this plant such as fruit, stem, flowers, peel of the fruit, tuberous rhizome and pseudostem are used as dietary (edible) sources. The raw, crushed juice of the banana stem is used to treat various kinds of diseases which include kidney stones, otalgia, hemoptysis, and menorrhagia, a variety of illnesses and symptoms of cholera, anthelmintic, blood disorders, inflammation, pain, and snakebite. It protects the eyes from muscular degeneration and stabilizes the blood sugar level (27,28). The banana stem, rich in soluble fiber pectin helps in the easy digestion of food. Recent studies have shown that the pseudostem exhibits anti-oxidant, hypocholesterolemic (29,30), diuretic, mutagenicity, hypoglycemic, anti-hypertensive, wound healing, anti-allergic, anti-malarial, and anti-diabetic activities and also effects in atherosclerosis and mutagenicity (27,28). However, the study of this plant for its nutritional and medicinal value is highly limited.
Assessment of antidiabetic potential of Musa acuminata peel extract and its fractions in experimental animals and characterisation of its bioactive compounds by HPTLC
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2022
Navghare Vijay, Dhawale Shashikant, Phanse Mohini
Banana is a most consumed nutritious fruit available worldwide with different shape, size and colour, Musa sapientum, Musa paradisiaca, Musa cavendish, Musa barbedensis, Musa seminifera. Banana peels verified the presence of various phenolic compounds such as gallocatechin and anthocyanins like peonidin and malvidine (Abd El-Naby 2010, Kurtoglu and Yildiz 2011). It is used in bug bites, topical infections, bruises, teeth whitening, warts removal, scrapes and scratches, as diuretic, psoriasis, headache, wrinkles, antidepressant, in total knee arthroplasty, wound healing, to filter pollutants out of water and garden compost (rich source of potassium) (Lahav and Hofmann 2007, Tee and Halijah 2011). The antioxidant compounds identified in bananas include ascorbic acid, tocopherol, beta carotene, phenolic groups, dopamine and gallocatechin (Qusti et al.2010). Banana peel is a potential source of pectin, peels of green, yellow and brown bananas are reported to contain respectively, 0.51, 0.38 and 0.46% soluble pectin substance and 1.28, 1.02 and 0.81% total pectin substance. The pectin was found to exhibit significant hypolipidemia and hypoglycaemic activity in rats (The Wealth of India 2005). As banana contains high carbohydrate, consumption may increase plasma glucose and body weight. Musa acuminata peel contains potassium (K), calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), bromine, rubidium, strontium, zirconium and niobium (Abd El-Naby 2010). Ayurveda suggested eating of banana peel for diabetics as it is a good source of potassium, and it also does not contain sugars (Alam 2014). In some parts of rural India, inner peels, in addition to pulp of banana fruit are also consumed which may be because of high fibre content and some beneficial effects despite of its bland taste. Edible portion of banana i.e. pulp contains high sugar, which may contribute to obesity and rise in plasma glucose. We observed in preliminary studies that, peels of Musa acuminata possess significant glucose lowering activity as compared to other Musa species. Hence, the present study aimed to evaluate antidiabetic potential with complications such as dyslipidemia and nephropathy of various fractions of ethanolic extract of Musa acuminata fruit peels.