Introduction: Epidemiological studies suggest that dietary limonoids and phytosterols offer protection from some types of cancers (1). In the present study, cancer preventive components from sour orange (Citrus aurantium L.) were isolated and identified for the first time. Isolated compounds were tested for the inhibition of human colon cancer cells (HT-29) proliferation, apoptosis. Methods: So...

The Sudanese citrus industry is mainly based on oldline cultivars of grapefruit, sweet orange and willow leaf mandarin, grafted almost exclusively on sour orange. Infection with graft-transmissible agents, viroids in particular, may have deleterious effects on the productivity of these citrus species and, more importantly, limits the choice of rootstocks should sour orange be replaced by altern...

the present study was done to investigate the correlation between biochemical changes of grafted tree fruits and rootstock fruits in gorgan university of agricultural science and natural resources in 2012-2013. for this purpose, the antioxidant activity and the total content of phenol and  flavonoid on four rootstocks such as yuzu (citrus junos), shelmahalleh (citrus sinensis var. shel mahalleh...

• Understanding how trees are affected by a long-term increase in atmospheric CO 2 is crucial to understanding the future impact of global climate change. Measurements of photosynthetic characteristics were made in sour orange trees ( Citrus aurantium ) growing under an enhanced CO 2 atmosphere and N-replete soil for 14 yr to determine whether photosynthetic down-regulation had occurred. • Phot...

Plants treated with chemical compounds can develop an enhanced capacity to resist long after being subjected to (a)biotic stress, a phenomenon known as priming. Evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) coordinately regulate plant stress responses to adverse environmental conditions; however, the mechanisms underlying this function remain unknown. ...

The long-term responses of trees to elevated CO2 are especially crucial (1) to mitigating the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase, (2) to determining the character of future forested natural ecosystems and their spread across the landscape, and (3) to determining the productivity of future agricultural tree crops. Therefore, a long-term CO2-enrichment experiment on sour orange trees was started in...

Potential inhibitory effect of Citrus lemon (lemon) and Citrus sinensis (orange) on lipophilic, yeast like fungus, Malassezia furfur which causes Pityriasis versicolor, chronic superficial fungal disease of the skin have been studied by using two different methods: disc diffusion and microdilution methods. In screening of lemon and orange oil by disc diffusion method, the diameter of inhibition...