OSUNDINAKIN IDOWU MICHAEL

Botany

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Topic: Variability Assessment Of Selected Digitaria Exilis And Digitaria Iburua Exposed To Simulated Flood Stress

Description: There is an urgent need to look towards developing germplasm that would withstand some of the effects of climate change, most especially floods. My research will investigate the performance of Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua from Five 5 northern states in Nigeria under varying flood stress.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING)	BOTANY, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS	2021

Phytochemical Profile and Scavenging Capacity Of Blanched Cnidoscolus Aconitifolius Mill. I.M. Johnst and Telfairia Occidentalis Hook. Fil. Leaves

The application of blanching to activate and inactivate key enzymes, increase vital phytochemicals, and reduce undesirable anti nutrients present in Cnidoscolus aconitifolius and Telfaira occidentalis is of enormous potential health benefits and applications in food and pharmaceutical industries. This study aimed to investigate the phytochemicals, and antioxidant properties of blanched Cnidoscolus aconitifolius and Telfairia occidentalis. The blanching pretreatment involves immersing the leaves of C. aconitifolius and T. occidentalis in 80 C water for 3 minutes, followed by a quick cooling process. Phytochemicals and enzymes were extracted and analyzed using spectrophotometry to measure absorbance at different wavelengths. The concentration of phenol 37.00 1.00 and saponin 21.98 3.75 were significantly p 0.05 increased in blanched T. occidentalis, and statistically similar in C. aconitifolius. Blanching reduced the flavonoid content for T. occidentalis 46.32 1.55 and C. aconitifolius 42.42 3.03 , while their anthocyanin content remains significantly similar when compared with their respective un-blanched samples. Tannin content was significantly reduced in blanched T. occidentalis 52.04 3.58 , and a non-significant reduction was observed for C. aconitifolius 47.70 1.47 . The DPPH and FRAP radical scavenging assay at various concentrations IC25, IC50, IC75, IC100 revealed an increasing distinct trends in C. aconitifolius and T. occidentalis under blanched and un-blanched treatments. For peroxidase, no significant difference was seen between the un-blanched and blanched leaves of the two plant species. Blanching significantly increased polyphenol oxidase for C. aconitifolius 73.80 4.51 , while T. occidentalis 31.91 1.75 was reduced when compared with their respective counterparts. This study established the effectiveness of the novel blanching techniques in enhancing various attributes of phytochemicals and antioxidant present in C. aconitifolius and T. occidentalis.

OSUNDINAKIN MICHAEL is a Lecturer II at the Department of Botany

OSUNDINAKIN has a Ph.D in MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING from BOTANY, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS