National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The stigma and pistil of saffron are used to extract chemical compounds such as crocin, picrocrocin, crocetin and safranal; and volatile oils for flavor respectively. The work is to isolate microbiome associated with stigma of saffron. 15 morphotypes obtained from Kashmir and 32 from Kishtwar. Their morphological characterization showed that the smooth textured colonies more in Kishtwar and rough textured colonies more in Kashmir. The IC50 values of radical scavenging revealed that antioxidant activity of Kishtwar is more as lower IC50 value corresponds to a higher antioxidant activity of sample. The IC50 values of ferrous chelation revealed that antioxidant activity of Kishtwar is more as lower IC50 value corresponds to a higher antioxidant activity of sample. Hence, Kishtwar has more antioxidant activity. The flavonoid and phenolic content of Kashmir is higher than that of Kishtwar. Of the biochemical assays conducted, only tannins and Glycosides are present in stigma of saffron. Further work can be done to unveil the bacterial property to produce the pigments that act as favouring agent that can be used in bio-industry.
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