Growth parameters, phytochemicals, and antitumor activity of wild and cultivated ice plants (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.).

ABSTRACT: The ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.) is a halophyte that could become an alternative crop because of its interest as a functional food and its adaptation to high-saline soils. In this work, leaves from wild ice plants were compared with their cultivated counterparts in a soilless system at different salinities and light exposures for assessing growth parameters, moisture, fatty acid profiles, total carotenoids, phenolic compounds, vitamin C, antioxidant activity, and antiproliferative activity against the HT-29 colorectal cancer cell line. Moisture ranged between 876 and 955 g kg^-1, and wild plants contained higher proportions of α-linolenic acid (58.7%-60.7% of total fatty acids) than cultivated ones (20.4%-36.6%). Vitamin C ranged between 819 and 1143 mg kg<

SUBMITTER: Rincon-Cervera MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11561852 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature