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Parkia speciosa Hassk. commonly known as petai beans are extensively consumed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Borneo, Madagascar, Africa, India, and other parts of world as vegetable and salad. Petai...
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Bioactive Compounds of Petai Beans (Parkia speciosa Hassk.)
Parkia speciosa Hassk. commonly known as petai beans are extensively consumed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Borneo, Madagascar, Africa, India, and other parts of world as vegetable and salad. Peta...
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An Update on Bioactive Natural Products from Endophytic Fungi of Medicinal Plants
Pathogens are develo** resistance against the current regime of drugs, which urge the need of novel drugs. This has led scientists to explore natural sources that are safe as well as potent. Microbes have be...
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Nanoemulsions: A Promising Tool for Dairy Sector
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Effects of processing parameters such as creaming time, dough mixing time, cookie thickness, baking temperature, time and principal ingredients viz. sugar, fat and water on quality of sugar snap cookies were i...
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The plant community comprises certain underutilized plant species which has proven to be beneficial to human health. Parkia speciosa is considered as one of the highly underutilized plants with multidimensional u...
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