Rubio Moraga, Angela; Ahrazem, Oussama; Pérez Clemente, Rosa María; Gomez Cadenas, Aurelio; Yoneyama, Koichi; López Ráez, Juan Antonio; Molina Romero, Rosa Victoria; Gómez Gómez, Lourdes(BioMed Central, 2014-06-19)
[EN] Background: In saffron (Crocus sativus), new corms develop at the base of every shoot developed from the
maternal corm, a globular underground storage stem. Since the degree of bud sprouts influences the number ...
Rubio-Moraga, A.; Ahrazem, Oussama; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Granell Richart, Antonio; Gómez Gómez, Lourdes(Public Library of Science, 2013-09)
Crocus sativus is the source of saffron spice, the processed stigma which accumulates glucosylated apocarotenoids known as crocins. Crocins are found in the stigmas of other Crocuses, determining the colourations observed ...
Armellini, Rita; Peinado Pardo, Irene; Pittia, Paola; Scampicchio, M.; Heredia Gutiérrez, Ana Belén; Andrés Grau, Ana María(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Saffron, used in cookery as a flavouring and colouring agent, is well-known for its antioxidant and beneficial health properties. In the present work, the effect of saffron addition (0-control, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4%, w/w) ...
[EN] Carotenoids are C40 isoprenoids with well-established roles in photosynthesis, pollination, photoprotection, and hormone biosynthesis. The enzymatic or ROS-induced cleavage of carotenoids generates a group of compounds ...
Armellini, R.; Peinado, I.; Asensio-Grau, Andrea; Pittia, P.; Scampicchio, M.; Heredia Gutiérrez, Ana Belén; Andrés Grau, Ana María(Elsevier, 2019-06-15)
[EN] This work aims to study the effect of the addition of saffron extract on fresh pasta in-vitro digestibility. Fresh pasta was formulated with different concentrations of saffron extracts (0.2 and 0.4 %w/w), cooked at ...
[EN] The stigmas of Crocus sativus accumulate the exclusive apocarotenoids crocin and picrocrocin, which are dried and desiccated to make commercial saffron. In addition to providing characteristic organoleptic qualities, ...
Rubio-Moraga, Angela; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Fernández Del Carmen, María Asunción; Trapero Mozos, Almudena; Ahrazem, Oussama; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Granell Richart, Antonio; Gómez Gómez, Lourdes(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-11)
[EN] Apocarotenoid compounds play diverse communication functions in plants, some of them being as hormones, pigments and volatiles. Apocarotenoids are the result of enzymatic cleavage of carotenoids catalyzed by carotenoid ...
Ahrazem, Oussama; Rubio Moraga, Angela; González Nebauer, Sergio; Molina Romero, Rosa Victoria; Gómez Gómez, Lourdes(American Chemical Society, 2015-10-14)
[EN] The present state of knowledge concerning developmental processes and the secondary metabolism of saffron, Crocus sativus L. (Iridaceae), along with the genes involved in these processes so far known, is reviewed. ...