The Effect of Seasonal and Annual Variation on the Quality of Polygonatum Cyrtonema Hua Rhizomes

Weiting Pu, Yefei Yu, Xiaoxiao Shi, Ye Shao, Bihuan Ye, Youwu Chen, Qiyan Song, Jianjun Shen, Haibo Li, Ahmed A Hussein · 2024

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Weiting Pu and co-authors study how season and year of growth affect the quality of a medicinal plant's rhizomes, in a 2024 paper. The plant, Polygonatum cyrtonema, is used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Its active parts include flavonoids and saponins, whose levels may vary with harvest time.

Over a five-year growth period and two traditional harvest seasons, the team track those components and scan wider chemical change. Levels rose from year one to four, with the fastest gain from year three to four, then fell in year five. The results help growers pick harvest timing for better quality.

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CREATORWeiting Pu, Yefei Yu, Xiaoxiao Shi, Ye Shao, Bihuan Ye, Youwu Chen, Qiyan Song, Jianjun Shen, Haibo Li, Ahmed A Hussein
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE64 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11676584

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