Publication Date:
2018-03-12
Description:
Now-a-days, plant species are consumed globally for various purposes and this increasing demand leads to adulteration due to gradually exploitation in natural resources. The major causes of adulteration may be confusion in nomenclature, unawareness of authentic sources, unavailability of authentic sources, color resemblances, deficiencies in collection procedures, and misidentification. This study aims to use the microscopic techniques such as scanning electron microscopy for the authentication of the oil yielding seeds of four important and traditionally used species Prunus persica , Prunus domestica , and Eruca sativa and Argemone Mexicana from their adulterants. All of these are versatile in usage. Locally, these four plants are adulterated badly and there is need to provide a criteria and a complete monograph for correct identification. This research may prove to be helpful for quality control and as well for future studies to explore other novel aspects of these plants. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is applied for discrimination of morphologically similar oil yielding seeds SEM can be used for quality control of seeds Seed surface ornamentation is found to be in authentication of original source of seeds
Print ISSN:
1059-910X
Electronic ISSN:
1097-0029
Topics:
Natural Sciences in General
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