Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review
The genus Jatropha belongs to family Euphorbiaceae and it is comprised of more than 200 species located in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa and America. Traditionally, this genus is used to treat different diseases including rheumatism, diabetes, urethritis, headache, eczema and hemorrhoid...
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| description | The genus Jatropha belongs to family Euphorbiaceae and it is comprised of more than 200 species located in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa and America. Traditionally, this genus is used to treat different diseases including rheumatism, diabetes, urethritis, headache, eczema and hemorrhoids. Each species of Jatropha is cultivated in a part of the world and most of the works have studied their bioactivities and uses individually. In this review, we collected and organized the available information of isolated compounds from different species of the genus Jatropha covering literature from 1969 to 2024. In total, 315 phytoconstituents were classified to 9 main classes including lignans, neolignans, sesquineolignans, coumarin and coumarinolignoids (class 1), diterpenoids and related compounds (2), alkaloids (3), flavonoids (4), triterpenoids and sesquiterpenoids (5), cyclic peptides (6), phytosterols and steroids (7), phenolics and esters (8) and miscellaneous compounds (9). This is a useful information to link their composition to their observed pharmacological activities. Moreover, the use of the edible seed of J. curcas was recently authorized as a novel food ingredient for the EU market according to EFSA, opening the door for new applications in the food industry of this medicinal plant. Therefore, it is important to collect information of Jatropha genus about its nutritional composition and its uses in modern medicine to better exploit these bioactive plants in food and nutraceutical applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-98e68fd5f89e4f9c9f1c31d3aeebb1062025-08-20T02:31:01ZengElsevierJournal of Agriculture and Food Research2666-15432025-06-012110186110.1016/j.jafr.2025.101861Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A reviewIsmat Majeed0Komal Rizwan1Fatema R. Saber2Shahid Munir3Anton Soria-Lopez4Paz Otero5Department of Chemistry, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, 38000, PakistanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Sahiwal, Sahiwal, 57000, Pakistan; Corresponding author.Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, 11562, Cairo, Egypt; Corresponding author.Institute of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan; University of Engineering and Technology, GT Road, 54890, Lahore, Punjab, PakistanUniversidade de Vigo, Departamento de Química Física, Facultade de Ciencias, 32004, Ourense, SpainUniversidade de Vigo, Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Analytical Chemistry and Food Science Department, Faculty of Science, 32004, Ourense, Spain; Corresponding author.The genus Jatropha belongs to family Euphorbiaceae and it is comprised of more than 200 species located in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa and America. Traditionally, this genus is used to treat different diseases including rheumatism, diabetes, urethritis, headache, eczema and hemorrhoids. Each species of Jatropha is cultivated in a part of the world and most of the works have studied their bioactivities and uses individually. In this review, we collected and organized the available information of isolated compounds from different species of the genus Jatropha covering literature from 1969 to 2024. In total, 315 phytoconstituents were classified to 9 main classes including lignans, neolignans, sesquineolignans, coumarin and coumarinolignoids (class 1), diterpenoids and related compounds (2), alkaloids (3), flavonoids (4), triterpenoids and sesquiterpenoids (5), cyclic peptides (6), phytosterols and steroids (7), phenolics and esters (8) and miscellaneous compounds (9). This is a useful information to link their composition to their observed pharmacological activities. Moreover, the use of the edible seed of J. curcas was recently authorized as a novel food ingredient for the EU market according to EFSA, opening the door for new applications in the food industry of this medicinal plant. Therefore, it is important to collect information of Jatropha genus about its nutritional composition and its uses in modern medicine to better exploit these bioactive plants in food and nutraceutical applications.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154325002327JatrophaEuphorbiaceaeDiterpenesLignansCyclic peptidesPharmacological activities |
| spellingShingle | Ismat Majeed Komal Rizwan Fatema R. Saber Shahid Munir Anton Soria-Lopez Paz Otero Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review Journal of Agriculture and Food Research Jatropha Euphorbiaceae Diterpenes Lignans Cyclic peptides Pharmacological activities |
| title | Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review |
| title_full | Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review |
| title_fullStr | Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review |
| title_short | Ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae): A review |
| title_sort | ethnotraditional uses and potential industrial and nutritional applications of secondary metabolites of genus jatropha l euphorbiaceae a review |
| topic | Jatropha Euphorbiaceae Diterpenes Lignans Cyclic peptides Pharmacological activities |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154325002327 |
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