resumo
Eichhornia crassipes is an invasive plant whose individual morphological parts (roots, stalks, leaves, flowers) were studied for the first time in terms of polar and lipophilic extractives. The former attained yields between 10.0% (wt.), for roots, and 28.84% (wt.), for stalks. Concerning lipophilic extracts, 29 compounds were identified by GC MS and yields ranged from 1.12% (wt.) for roots to 4.45% (wt.).for flowers. Among these compounds, stigmasterol obtained from stalks and leaves exhibited values up to 4437 mg kg(biomass)(-1) and concentrations up to 15.15 wt.%, placing E. crassipes as one of the richest vegetal sources for this molecule. Moreover, polar extracts from leaves exhibited very strong antioxidant activity as well as the highest concentration in phenolics, rendering leaves the major provision of this family of compounds within the studied morphological parts. In the whole, this study suggests that leaves and stalks of E. crassipes are a noteworthy source of stigmasterol and antioxidant extracts, which may open the way for the valorization of this fast growing invasive species. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
palavras-chave
SUPERCRITICAL-FLUID EXTRACTION; EUCALYPTUS-GLOBULUS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; MART SOLMS; BARK; OIL; NUTRITION; CAPACITY; RECOVERY
categoria
Agriculture
autores
Silva, RP; de Melo, MMR; Silvestre, AJD; Silva, CM
nossos autores
Armando Jorge Domingues Silvestre
Professor Catedrático
Carlos Manuel Silva
Professor associado
Marcelo Morais Rodrigues de Melo
Bolseiro de pós-Doutoramento
Rui Pedro Fonseca Ferreira da Silva
Estudante de mestradoagradecimentos
This work was developed in the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (Ref. FCT UID/CTM/50011/2013), financed by national funds through the FCT/MEC and when applicable co-financed by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement.