Medicinal Chemistry

Wissal Msahli

Publications

• Research Article
  Differential Responses of Cakile maritima at Two Development Stages to Salinity: Changes on Phenolic Metabolites and Related Enzymes and Antioxidant Activity
  Author(s): Rim Ben Mansour, Sara Dakhlaouia, Wissal Msahli, Riadh Ksouri and Wided Megdiche-KsouriRim Ben Mansour, Sara Dakhlaouia, Wissal Msahli, Riadh Ksouri and Wided Megdiche-Ksouri
  
  Though halophytes are naturally adapted to salinity, their salt-tolerance limits are greatly influenced by endogenous (that is, physiological development stages) and exogenous factors (that is, salinity). In this work, the evaluation of oxidative stress, bioactive molecules contents, antioxidant activities and two enzymes involved in the synthesis of secondary metabolites were assessed in the edible halophytic species Cakile maritima as function of salinity (0, 100, 400 mM NaCl) and two physiological stages. Total phenols, flavonoids and tannin contents increased by 58, 80 and 18% in vegetative period and by 27, 28 and 31% in flowering one at 400 mM NaCl, respectively as compared to C. maritima shoots control. These data indicated that phenolic compounds played an important role in protecting this species from salinity. The stimulatory effect of the salt on the total.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0444.1000500

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