Piper betle Linn.leaves are traditionally used as a folk medicine in India and other Asiatic countries. Twenty-one P. betle landraces were analyzed using a Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) mass spectral technique and evaluated on the basis of molecules detected in the leaves. Clustering of landraces based on three well known biologically active phenols (m/z 151,165,193) showed two broad groups with high and low phenol contents suggesting differences in their therapeutic potential. Findings of this study could be useful in rapid screening of the landraces for determining their medicinal potential and optimum utilization of the bioresource.
RichardR. (1999)The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age. The Free Press, New York. USA.
2.
ThakurBS, ChunekarKC. (1972) Glossary of Vegetable Drugs in Brahattrayi. Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series, Varanasi, India.
3.
KumarN, MisraP, DubeA, BhattacharyaS, DikshitM, RanadeSA. (2010) Piper betle Linn. a maligned Pan-Asiatic plant with an array of pharmacological activities and prospects for drug discovery. Current Science, 99, 922–932.
VermaA, KumarN, RanadeSA. (2004) Genetic diversity amongst landraces of a dioeciousvegetatively propagated plant, betelvine (Piper betle L.). Journal of Biosciences, 29, 319–328.
7.
BajpaiV, SharmaD, KumarB, MadhusudananKP. (2010) Profiling of Piper betle Linn. cultivars by direct analysis in real time mass spectrometric technique. Biomedical Chromatography, 24, 1283–1286.
8.
MulaS, BanerjeeD, PatroBS, BhattacharyaS, BarikA, BandopadhyaySK, ChattopadhyayS. (2008) Inhibitory property of the Piper betlephenolics against photosensitization-induced biological damages. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 16, 2932–2938.
9.
MaisuthisakulP, SuttajitM, PongsawatmanitR. (2007) Assessment of phenolic content and free radical scavenging capacity of some Thai indigenous plants. Food Chemistry, 100, 1409–1418.
10.
TripathiS. (2008) Chemical investigation of betel vine (Piper betle L.) as antioxidant agent. PhD Thesis, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India.
