The study aimed to determine the biotechnical characteristics (physical properties, color characteristics, angle of repose, and coefficient friction) seeds safflower cultivars. Moisture contents Asal, Balcı, Dinçer cultivars were determined as 8.64%, 9.52%, 8.57%, respectively. width (4.04 mm) cultivar gave higher values than other Statistically significant (p

Mediterranean Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower) is used for treatment of inflammatory conditions and neuropsychiatric disorders. Recently C. tinctorius lignans arctigenin and trachelogenin but not matairesinol were described to interfere with the activity of tryptophan-degrading enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in vitro. We examined a potential direc...

Koshi Saito, Ken-Ichi Miyakawa, Takayuki Murata and Yuji Enomoto Department of Bioscience and Technology, School of Engineering, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo 005, Japan Z. Naturforsch. 53c, 828-832 (1998); received August 14, 1997/April 16, 1998 Mogami-Benibana, Dyer’s Saffron (C. tinctorius) Cultivar. Red Colour Appearance, Flower Floret, Phytohormone Mediated Induction Gibberellic acid ...

Oil seeds are an important source of protein in many developing countries. However this protein is not readily available because of anti-nutrients, hence information on the content of anti-nutrients is required. The objective of the study was to determine the status of anti-nutritive factors in some new varieties of oil seeds, viz Sunflower ( Helianths annus ) LSF -11, Sunflower ( Helianths ann...

Abstract Genetic basis of heterosis has been exploited for yield improvement in safflower ( Carthamus tinctorius L.) but little is known about physiological yield. The objective this study was to quantify the seed by examining 19 hybrids and their parents photosynthetic traits, its components. results showed that components high positive low negative traits most studied. There were weak non-sig...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is one of the most extensively used oil crops in the world. However, little is known about how its compounds are synthesized at the genetic level. In this study, Solexa-based deep sequencing on seed, leaf and petal of safflower produced a de novo transcriptome consisting of 153,769 unigenes. We annotated 82,916 of the unigenes with gene annotation and assigne...

The aim of the present investigation was to determine the effect of plant growth regulators viz., kinetin, chlorocholine chloride (CCC) and salicylic acid (SA) on achene yield and oil quality of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) cv. Thori pertaining to biodiesel production. The growth regulators were applied at 10M as foliar spray during flowering (140 days after sowing). Kinetin was highly e...