Medicinal plants are the product of natural drug discoveries and have gained traction due to their pharmacological activities. Analysing the profile of these phytochemicals in medicinal plants is crucial for understanding their potential therapeutic effects, identifying novel drug leads, and ensuring product quality control. The goal of phytochemical analysis is to evaluate the medicinal potential of plants by various methods like extraction, chromatographic techniques, and spectroscopic methods for identifying and isolating their phytoconstituents. Natural colourants derived from plant materials have gained increasing popularity due to their non-toxic nature. pigment extraction from the florets is normally done by Soxhlet extraction, maceration, and hydro distillation are conventional methods that have been widely used in industry and laboratory phytochemical analysis of safflower florets revealed the presence of a high amount of Carthamin and carthamidin. Screening of different genotypes of C. tinctorius for the pigments analysis (safflower florets) clearly reveals the presence of two bioactive pigments (phytoconstituents) in petals of safflower floral extracts. The qualitative and quantitative analyses of these phytoconstituents would be an interesting area for further study in the food as well as in the pharmaceutical industries.
Author (s) Details
Ayesha Sultana
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Osmania University, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India.
P. Vijaya Laxmi
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Osmania University, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India.
S. Y. Anwar
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Osmania University, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Mohd Manazir Hussain
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Osmania University, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India.
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