Olive (Olea europaea L.) is an evergreen tree traditionally cultivated in the Mediterranean basin where plants undergo, to some degree, stress due to unfavourable environmental conditions. Water deficit, freezing, salinity and air pollution are a few of the stress factors restricting growth, so that olive productivity at the end of the growing season expresses only a fraction of the plant’s gen...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pistacia atlantica, which belongs to the Anacardiaceae family, grows in the Zagrossian region of Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal properties of Pistacia atlantica and olive leaf extracts against different fungal species. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we assessed the activities of olive leaf extracts and Pistacia atlantica leaf and fruit ...

With the final aim of obtaining saIt tolerant olive plants, olive cvs. growing in the olive Germplasm Bank (World Collection) of Córdoba (Spain) (WC-CO) and plants growing in three harsh saline zones, each divided into two subzones, were selected. The zones and subzones were: "Odiel" River Marsh (Huelva) with the subzones "Rabo conejo" (O-RC) y "Acebuchal" (O-AC); "Doñana" National Park (Huelva...

the aim of this study was to extract phenolic compounds from olive leaves of cronaiky, roghani and mishen varieties by maceration and microwave-assisted extraction (mae) methods. our result revealed that effect of extraction method and variety was statistically significant (p<0.05) and mae-produced extracts have more total phenolics and antioxidant activity than traditional ones. the highest ph...

Conservation biological control (CBC) is an environmentally sound potential alternative to the use of chemical insecticides. It involves modifications of the environment to promote natural enemy activity on pests. Despite many CBC studies increasing abundance of natural enemies, there are far fewer demonstrations of reduced pest density and very little work has been conducted in olive crops. In...

Olive leaf extract is characterized by a high content of polyphenols (oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol and their derivatives), which is associated with its therapeutic properties. The objective of the present research was to evaluate the antifungal activity of olive leaf extract against Candida albicans ATCC 10231 and C. dubliniensis CBS 7987 strains. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the ex...

Twenty three samples of 18 Portuguese olive leaf cultivars were analysed by a reversed-phase HPLC/DAD procedure and eight flavonoidic compounds were identified and quantified (luteolin 7,4'-O-diglucoside, luteolin 7-O-glucoside, rutin, apigenin 7-O-rutinoside, luteolin 4'-O-glucoside, luteolin, apigenin and diosmetin). Luteolin 7,4'-O-diglucoside and luteolin 4'-O-glucoside were identified by H...