High potential of agro-industrial by-products of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) as the powerful antifungal and antioxidant substances

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1523-1527

  Tehranifar, Ali ^a   Selahvarzi, Yahya ^a   Kharrazi, Mahdiyeh ^a   Bakhsh, Vahid Jahan ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Antioxidant activity; Methanolic extract; Phenolic content; Pomegranate

Indexed keywords

ANTI-FUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; METHANOLIC EXTRACTS; PHENOLIC CONTENT; POMEGRANATE;

AGENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNGI; PHENOLS; SEED;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

AGROINDUSTRY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITION; LEAF; METHANOL; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PLANT PRODUCT; SEED; SPORE;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; LYTHRACEAE; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM ITALICUM; PUNICA GRANATUM; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER;

EID: 79960456024     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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