Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0412
ISSN: 2167-0412
Ardavan Ghorbani, Roghayeh Valizadeh Yonjalli and Farzad Mirzaei Aghjeh Qeshlagh
University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Med Aromat Plants
Polyphenols which is known as the secondary metabolites of plant species are considered as integral part of both human and animal diet. Commonly known phenolic includes flavonoids, tannins, oligomeric proanthocyanidins and lignans. One of the fundamental features of phenolic is their significant antioxidant activity, which is important for domestic animals health and performance. However, some phenolic may have additional beneficial properties for animal digestion system health, such as anti-inflammatory or antimicrobial activity. A research is started to explore and identify the flora and endemic plant species of Ardabil province in northwest of Iran. Although, traditionally indigenous people has been considered to the polyphenols plants such as Prangos spp., Ferula spp. and Quercus spp. in their free ranching and winter forage collection in Iran including Ardabil province, however complete potential of polyphenols species ethnoveterinary and nutritional role are not known. This study is a part of this major research with the aim of specification of species containing phenolic compounds. In this paper, we present species with four main phenolic compounds including tannins, saponin, alkaloid and flavonoids. To determine the species with phenolic compounds, after identification of collected plant specimens, species with phenolic content were identified by comparing with pervious literature in the world, particularly with the literature of Iran. So far, 1643 plant species from 112 families were identified in Ardabil province, which are grown wildly in this province. From those, 193 species from 39 families by comparing with literature were identified with phenolic content and from those 155, 145, 114 and 148 species have tannin, saponin, flavonoids and alkaloids value, respectively.