The medicinal properties ascribed to many plants by the common people for the cure of certain diseases have received the attention of chemists, and where the therapeutic value has been experimentally controlled they are now being utilized in scientific medicine. In an earlier paper I have dealt with the artichoke (Cynara scolymus), which is an important food vegetable often served because of it...

The recently acquired genome sequence of globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) has been used to catalog the genome's content of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. More than 177,000 perfect SSRs were revealed, equivalent to an overall density across the genome of 244.5 SSRs/Mbp, but some 224,000 imperfect SSRs were also identified. About 21% of these SSRs were complex (two stretc...

Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), an herbaceous perennial plant able to grow with high productivity in dry and hot regions, as well unproductive soils, was used a biomass source for the production of both bioactive compounds derived from leaves proteins extracted seeds. Naviglio® technology found efficient method obtain cardoon leaf extract (CLE) characterized by phenol content oxygen scavenging ac...

This study aimed to evaluate in-vitro antioxidant activities of hydroethanolic extract of leaves of Cynara scolymus L., Cupressus sempervirens L., and Eugenia jambolana Lam comparing with ascorbic acid, and their correlation with in-vivo hepatoprotective activity in rat model of paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity, comparing with silymarin as reference agents. In-vitro study revealed that the te...