Adenanthera


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Noun1.Adenanthera - small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Mimosoideae, subfamily Mimosoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae
Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coralwood, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood - East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
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The name was taken from Saga (Adenanthera pavonina), a seed that is commonly found in Malaysia.
Wickramaratne, "In-vitro alpha amylase inhibitory activity of the leaf extracts of adenanthera pavonina," BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol.
Scoparia dulcis (walkoththamalli), Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (sepalika) flowers, and Artocarpus heterophyllus (kos) leaves are also commonlyingested as water extracts while Cephalandra indica (kowakka), Murraya koenigii spreng (karapincha), and Adenanthera pavonina (madatiya) are used as porridge.
(2004) who purified a chitinase from lima bean and Adenanthera pavonina seeds showing maximum activity at pH 5.4 and 5.5, respectively.
A SDS-PAGE apresenta, neste estudo, nos extratos de sementes, proteinas majoritarias com massas moleculares variando na faixa de 60 kDa a 14 kDa, no entanto nao coincidem com massas moleculares de inibidores de tripsina de sementes publicados na literatura, tais como os do tipo Kunitz, e dentre eles o ApTKI de 22 kDa, da semente de Adenanthera pavonina L.