Nowadays, the use of carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is reduced to its seeds. In fact, food additive E410, locust bean gum, obtained from endosperm. However, available information regarding bioactive potential seeds limited and, often, with poorly established terminologies, not allowing reader know if studied samples included seedless or seeded samples. So, present study intended carry out a chemi...

Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is an underutilized traditional crop in the Mediterranean regions that has gained much interest due to its high nutritional traits and resilience drought salinity. However, conventional methods of carob propagation are not enough meet increasing market demands. The present study analyzes what extent benzyl adenine (BA) treatments (0.1, 0.5 1.0 mg L−1) alone or combi...

Abstract Carob ( Ceratonia siliqua L.) is a relevant element of the Mediterranean spontaneous vegetation. Moreover, it useful in reforestation, and currently re-valued for sustainable agriculture dryland areas. However, difficulties tied to carob propagation (mainly seed dormancy) hamper its large-scale cultivation. In this paper, effects four treatments (no treatment [control], soaking at 70 °...