Influence of the vegetation period on sea fennel, Crithmum maritimum L. (Apiaceae), phenolic composition, antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities

HPLC-DAD profiling and antioxidant activity of the n-butanol extract from aerial parts of Algerian Crithmum maritimum L.

“…Aerial parts from C.maritimum L. were good extracted by polar solvent n-butanol and gave good amounts of total phenolics and flavonoids. The quantification of these compounds was well documented in previous studies about polar fractions (methanol and ethanol extracts) of the plant from aerial parts, separated organs, the same part of plant in different growing stages and the plant from different localities [13][14][15][16].…”

“…The n-butanol extract of C.maritimum L. was found to exhibit a strong antioxidant potential in all assays. Otherwise, moderate activity was reported by authors about methanol and hydromethanol extracts [13,14,16,37,38]. The antioxidant effect of the extract might be attributed to the high amount of phenolics especially chlorogenic acid as predominant active compound and also rutin, vanillin, trans-2-hydroxycinnamic acid, ellagic acid and ferrulic acid.…”

“…In a study carried out by Generalic Mekinic et al [15] on separated organs from Croatian variety during flowering stage, concentration of chlorogenic acid in flowers, stems and leaves was estimated at 7.7 ± 1.3, 0.7 ± 0.0 and 8.1 ± 0.1 mg/g of extract respectively. More recently, Generalic Mekinic et al [16] reported an amount of 5646.5 ± 110.2 μg/g of dry plant for chlorogenic acid in the ethanol extract from aerial parts at full flowering stage. The presence of chlorogenic acid in relatively high amounts in the plant kingdom as well as in species belonging to Apiaceae family was largely described in literature [15, 33, 34,].…”

“…In Algeria, the genus Crithmum is represented by only the species C.maritimum L. [12]. Researches on this species demonstrated the presence of essential oils [11], phenolic compounds [13][14][15][16], Vitamins and minerals [17,18], proteins and amino acids [19] and fatty acids [20].The soluble phenolic constituents of the n-butanol fraction from C. maritimum L. have not been studied previously. The present research aimed to identify and quantified phenolic components present in the n-butanol extract from aerial parts of C.maritimum L. in full flowering stage using Folin Ciocalteu, aluminum chloride and HPLC-DAD analysis and to determine their antioxidant potential by different methods: DPPH • , ABTS •+ and O 2•scavenging, lipid peroxidation, ferric reducing power and CUPRAC.…”

“…In Algeria, the genus Crithmum is represented by only the species C.maritimum L. [12]. Researches on this species demonstrated the presence of essential oils [11], phenolic compounds [13][14][15][16], Vitamins and minerals [17,18], proteins and amino acids [19] and fatty acids [20].…”