Phytochemical and antioxidant activity of Elaeagnus angustifolia L. fruits in different regions of Shahrood

Subject Areas : Medicinal Plants

esmaeil Babakhanzadeh Sajirani ¹ , Seyyed Javad Mousavizadeh ² , Khadegheh Mozafari ³

1 - Young Researchers and Elite Club, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Prof. of Horticultural Sciences, Department of Plant Production, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran
3 - M.Sc of Horticultural, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dameghan, Iran

Received: 2016-10-30 Accepted : 2017-02-16 Published : 2017-02-19

Keywords: Flavonoid, Antioxidant, Phenols, Elaeagnus angustifolia L, Shahrood regions,

Abstract :

Elaeagnus angustifolia L. is one of the most important medicinal fruits which had a lot of secondary metabolites such as phenols and flavonoid and has been used in traditional medicine. The presences of flavonoids, phenols and antioxidant properties have been reported in fruits of Elaeagnus angustifolia L. In this research the ripe fruits of plant were collected from different regions of Shahrood (1000-1400m). The methanol extracts were obtained by maceration, total phenol and flavonoids contents were measured by spectrophotometery and antioxidant activities were analyzed by DPPH method. The results were showed that in higher region (1400m) the fruit extract of plant had the greatest amount of total phenol, flavonoids and antioxidant activity. So we observed that there is the correlation between altitude ot the region with quality and quantities of medicinal metabolites and antioxidant properties.

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