Betalains are water‐soluble nitrogen‐containing pigments that are subdivided in red‐violet
betacyanins and yellow‐orange betaxanthins. Due to glycosylation and acylation betalains …

Cacti species are plants that are well adapted to growing in arid and semiarid regions where
the main problem is water availability. Cacti have developed a series of adaptations to cope …

The species of Opuntia genus are among the main Cactaceae consumed in semi-arid
regions of the world and recently they are often used in the formulation of different new …

This study isolated and identified autochthonous lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from mandacaru
fruit and evaluated their potential probiotic and technological aptitudes in vitro, as well as the …

Cactus species are plants that grow in the arid and semiarid regions of the world. They have
long fascinated the attention of the scientific community due to their unusual biology. Cactus …

Cactaceae plant family comprises over 130 genera and 2000 species of succulent flowering
plants. The genera Mammillaria and Notocactus (Parodia), which have medicinal and …

Cereus jamacaru is a cactus distributed in Northeastern Brazil, with high symbolic value to
this region. However, the interaction, behavior and the role of pollinators remains poorly …

The relationship between how humans and altitude influence the structure of plant
communities has been poorly investigated and particularly so in semiarid ecosystems …

The objective of this study was the production of innovative functional cookies enriched with
two different sizes (100 and 28 mesh) xiquexique flour by substitution ratio 50% of wheat …

The Cactaceae family is composed by 124 genera and about 1438 species. Pilosocereus
gounellei, popularly known in Brazil as xique-xique, is used in folk medicine to treat prostate …