Caryocar brasiliense, popularly known in Brazil as “pequi”, is a species widely distributed in the Brazilian Cerrado. The seeds are surrounded by a woody endocarp coated with a yellow fleshy mesocarp rich in oil and vitamin A, whose oil has a useful role in the treatment of skin aging and protection of human skin against UV-induced damage and skin hydration. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

Several species of the plant family Martyniaceae are characterised by unique lignified capsules with hook-shaped extensions that interlock with hooves and ankles of large mammals to disperse the seeds. The arrangement of fruit endocarp fibre tissues is exceptional and intriguing among plants. Structure-function-relationships of these slender, curved, but mechanically highly stressed fruit exten...

In this work, endocarp of the species Butia capitata was employed as precursor material to prepare a novel activated carbon with intrinsic properties remove ketoprofen and paracetamol from water efficiently. The presented predominantly microporous structure, an average pore diameter 1.23 nm, total volume 0.449 cm3 g−1, high specific surface area, 820 m2 g−1. adsorption kinetics showed rapid ini...

Manililla is a mango variety whose residues contain bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and flavonoids, with high added value. The use of environmentally friendly extraction technology would be great relevance; hence, this study aimed to evaluate the effect solvent relation, sonication time amplitude on ultrasound-assisted total in (peel, endocarp kernel) antioxidant activity. An experiment...

Prunus spinosa is a highly esteemed shrub in forest and landscape plantings. Shrubs with larger organs occur often and are considered either as large fruited forms of P. spinosa or as P. x fruticans, involving a hybridization process with the ancient cultivated P. insititia (crop-to-wild gene flow). As climate change may augment hybridization processes in the future, a hybrid origin is importan...

in order to improve the quality and the possibility of fresh pistachio exports , the impact of different harvest time on storage of ‘ahmadaghaii’ pistachio was investigated. in 2011, pistachios harvested at three stages of fruit ripening (40, 70 and 100 percent of hulling) in hulling fresh, fresh without hulling and dried pistachio packaged in pulpy bag and held in two-temperature storage (1 ± ...

In this work the properties of activated carbon obtained from macauba endocarp were evaluated, an agro-industrial waste widely produced in Brazil. This material was applied to remove herbicide atrazine, emerging pollutant. The biochar it by vacuum pyrolysis (temperatures 400 °C and 600 °C; heating rates 10 50 min?1) with K2CO3. characterizations materials performed elemental analysis (CNHO), im...

Menispermaceae are a pantropical and temperate family with an extensive fossil record during the Paleogene period, especially in North America Europe, but much less evidence from Asia. The latest indicates succession of tropical to subtropical flora on central Tibetan Plateau Paleogene. However, biogeographic histories these floras still unresolved. Here, we report endocarps leaves Middle Eocen...