García Martínez, Eva María; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Yuste Del Carmen, Alberto; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Martínez Navarrete, Nuria(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)
[EN] BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that phenolic compounds present in grapefruit play an important role in the bioactive properties of this fruit. However, the consumption of fresh grapefruit ...
Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Rios, José Luis; Giner, Rosa María; Cerda, José Miguel; Recio, María del Carmen(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
[EN] The naphthoquinone shikonin, a major component of the root of Lithospermum erythrorhizon, now is studied as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). Acute UC was induced in Balb/C mice ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar, Isabel; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, 2013-01)
[EN] Chlorogenic acid (5-O-caffeoyl-quinic acid; CGA) is an ester of caffeic acid and (-)-quinic acid with many beneficial properties for human health, such as anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective, anti-carcinogenic, ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Andújar, I.; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Soler Aleixandre, Salvador; Figás Moreno, María del Rosario; Rodríguez Burruezo, Adrián; Fita, Ana; Borràs, D.; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2014)
[EN] Vegetable crops contain significant amounts of many bioactive compounds which prevent and/or protect against chronic diseases. Consumers increasingly demand vegetables with improved bioactive properties and this is ...
Kaushik, Prashant; Andújar, Isabel; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Brar, Navjot Singh; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(MDPI, 2015-10)
[EN] Vegetables represent a major source of phenolic acids, powerful antioxidants characterized by an organic carboxylic acid function and which present multiple properties beneficial for human health. In consequence, ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-03-31)
Las frutas y hortalizas presentan compuestos bioactivos beneficiosos
para la salud humana. El desarrollo de variedades con un mayor contenido en
este tipo de compuestos es de interés, ya que contribuye a satisfacer ...
Figás Moreno, María del Rosario; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Fita Fernández, Ana María; García Martínez, María Dolores; Casanova Calancha, Cristina; Borrás, Dionís; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Soler Aleixandre, Salvador(Elsevier, 2015-11)
[EN] Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) local varieties are having an increasing demand. We characterized 69
local tomato accessions from eight cultivar groups for proximate composition traits, major sugars, acids
and ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Frontiers Media, 2014-07-07)
Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon) eggplants are major vegetable crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Together with their respective wild ancestors (S. anguivi and S. dasyphyllum) and intermediate cultivated-wild ...
Herraiz García, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-21)
[EN] The reduction of agricultural biodiversity is a serious problem for our agriculture. Increasingly fewer species are cultivated, and these are also increasingly homogeneous. The introduction of new crops for the ...
Martínez Curto, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-30)
[ES] Las polifenol oxidasas (PPOs) son enzimas que catalizan la oxidación de ácidos fenólicos dando
lugar al pardeamiento de frutas y verduras. En los tejidos vegetales, las PPOs y los sustratos
fenólicos se encuentran ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; López Gresa, Mª Pilar; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Torres Vidal, Cristina; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Belles Albert, José Mª; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(American Chemical Society, 2013-09-18)
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) varieties with increased levels of phenolics in the fruit present enhanced functional quality, but may display greater fruit flesh browning. We evaluated 18 eggplant accessions for fruit total ...
Hurtado Ricart, María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Castro, A.; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-04)
We have used the Almagro pickling eggplant landrace as a model for the enhancement of a local vegetable landrace. The programme has included characterization, selection, and breeding activities. Considerable intra-landrace ...
Cuñat Tamarit, Amparo Noelia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-09-19)
[EN] Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a widespread horticultural crop, being the sixth vegetable in production worldwide. Medicinal uses are attributed to eggplant both in India and in China. These properties can be justified ...
Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Postgraduate Inst. of Agriculture, 2013)
[EN] Traditional descriptors for characterization of fruit shape of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) provide limited information and do not allow a detailed characterization of this complex trait. New image analysis software ...
Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Hurtado Ricart, María; Cardona, A.; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, 2014)
[EN] Spain is a secondary center of diversity for eggplant (Solanum melongena). Spanish landraces of eggplant are normally classified in four cultivar groups: Round, Listada de Gandía, Semi-Long, and Long. We have used 19 ...
Ranil, R. H.; Niran, H. M. Lahiru; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Fonseka, Ramya; Hemal Fonseka, H.; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Gramazio, Pietro; Fita Fernández, Ana María; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Elsevier, 2015-09-22)
[EN] Solanum torvum is a highly vigorous relative of eggplant that is resistant to a number of harmful soil-borne diseases and is compatible for grafting with eggplant. Being a potential rootstock, this plant frequently ...
Hurtado Ricart, María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Gramazio, Pietro; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2015)
[EN] The eggplant (Solanum melongena) semi-long black varietal type is the most important in most European
markets. Although open pollinated, pure lines and F1 hybrid cultivars exist within this varietal group, the ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Hurtado Ricart, María; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2013)
[EN] Demand among consumers for fruits and vegetables with improved contents in bioactive compounds is increasing. In particular, a lot of attention is being paid to phenolic compounds, as they have been reported to present ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Castillo Lorenzo, Elena; Knapp, S.; Meyer, R.M.; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago(BioMed Central, 2014-12-10)
Background
Eggplant is a powerful source of polyphenols which seems to play a key role in the prevention of several human diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Chlorogenic acid is the polyphenol most present in eggplant, ...
Hurtado Ricart, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-03-03)
[EN] Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is one of the vegetables with highest content in phenolic compounds, giving eggplant a high antioxidant power and other bioactive beneficial health properties. This means that there is ...