Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Institute of Applied Biosciences/CERTH, P.O. Box 60361, Thermi 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece

Publications

• Research Article   
  Biochemical Fingerprint of Greek Sideritis spp.: Implications for Potential Drug Discovery and Advanced Breeding Strategies
  Author(s): Fotini Trikka*, Sofia Michailidou, Antonios M. Makris and Anagnostis Argiriou
  
  Plant species of the Sideritis genus are native to the Mediterranean region and widely used through millennia for their medicinal and culinary properties. They are mostly known as mountain tea or Shepard tea and in the last few years, they are on the spotlight due to the production of an enormous variety of bioactive secondary metabolites exerting a wide range of pharmaceutical applications. In the present study the biochemical value and the health promoting components of various indigenous Sideritis species was assessed: S. perforiata subsp. perfoliata, S. perfoliata subsp. athoa, S. syriaca, S. raeseri, S. scardica. A thorough biochemical analysis was conducted, including total phenols and flavonoid content, antioxidant activity, amino acids, elemental and polar/non polar metabolite profiling. S. perfoliata subs.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0412.19.8.335

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