Premise Water is the most limiting factor in dryland ecosystems, and plants are adapted to cope with this constraint. Particularly vulnerable phreatophytic from groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) regions that have face water regime alterations due impacts of climate land-use changes. Methods We investigated two aspects related water-use strategy a keystone species dominates one few terrest...

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia due to the body’s inability produce insulin or inaction of produced combination both. One antidiabetic therapeutic approach reduce gastrointestinal glucose production and absorption through inhibition carbohydrate digesting enzymes such as alpha-amylase well hemoglobin glycosylation.
 Objective: This study sets out...

Current studies were performed to overview the phytochemistry, nutritional and medicinal value of Ziziphus mauritiana (commonly known as Ber in Pakistan). The leaves Z. are comprised proteins, amino acids, alkaloids, terpenoids, fibers, flavonoids, tannins, glycosides, phenolic compounds. leave majorly demonstrate presence α-linolenic acid, plamitic acid methyl stearate n-hexane, chloroform met...

Background: Medicinal plants have gained prime importance in treating several fatal diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and eczema, because they are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals safer alternative to synthesized chemical compounds. Genus Ziziphus Mill. belongs the family Rhamnaceae, which comprises 100 accepted plant species is well known for multipurpose applications food, fodder, ...

Fresh jujube (Ziziphus jujube) is rich in vitamin C, which is an important quality index and generally decreases with storage time. The aim of this study was to build kinetic models for determining the vitamin C content, thus predicting the quality characteristics and shelf life of fresh jujube. The quality changes of the jujube stored at room temperature (20 °C) were analyzed using near-infrar...

In the present work, we have investigated nutritional, phytochemical content and antioxidant activity of ripe fruits of Ziziphus nummularia Burm. f., one of the underutilized plants distributed in drier parts of North Western India. Fruits were quantitatively analyzed for their total phenolic, flavonoid and flavonol content colorimetrically. Nutritional properties including moisture, fats, carb...