The study aimed to determine the optimal ratio for the mixture of forage cactus and corn stover silage, emphasizing the evaluation of fermentative profile, microbial populations, dry matter losses, chemical composition, and aerobic stability. A completely randomized design with four treatments and five replications was employed in this study. Treat...
Published in Annals of botany
Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved in their overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However, recent studies have shown that some lineages present unusual variations in some of these features. Members of the cactus family are one of these lineages, with distinct plastome structu...
The effect of different proportions of cactus pear (Opuntia ficus‑indica Mill) silage (CPS) and intermittent water supply (IWS) to crossbreed goats? diets on carcass traits and meat quality were evaluated. The IWS caused a reduction (p = 0.03) in the percentage of leg fat in the animals. The rib eye area, carcass weight, and physical?chemical chara...
Published in Acta Chimica Slovaca
Natural sources and healthy cereal-based food have recently received a lot of attention by both professionals and the common population for improving overall well-being. In this case, Opuntia cactus and Opuntia derivates show high potential in the production of health-promoting cereal-based products. This study comprehensively reviews nutritional c...
The prickly pear, a fleshy plant with widely researched nutritional and therapeutic properties at the industrial level, is cultivated abundantly in the municipality of La Mesa de los Santos -Santander in Colombia, because to the arid conditions of the area. The main purpose of this study was to carry out a detailed morphometric characterization of ...
Anthropogenic disturbances directly influence environmental processes and increase the concentration of carbon (C) in the atmosphere. Here, we compare the differences in the seasonality of the balance of carbon, energy, and radiation, as well as seek to identify the interrelationships between these environmental variables and their impact on the gr...
The objective of this research was to determine the efficacy of 3 infestation methods for the production of cochineal (Dactylopius coccus Costa) in prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica L) as well as to determine the optimal number of mother females in the greenhouse at the Tunshi Experimental Station for the that the completely randomized experimenta...
Published in La Clinica terapeutica
Prickly pear (Opuntia) extracts have garnered con-siderable attention in recent years due to their promising medicinal and nutritional properties. This comprehensive review explores the multifaceted potential of prickly pear extracts in mitigating various chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes, obesity, cancer, neurona...
The objective was to evaluate the effect of rainfall variability on the chemical composition, in vitro degradability and gas production of cacti in Semiarid region.
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Cacti are one of the most significant and diversified groups of angiosperms, distributed and cultivated globally, mostly in semi-arid, arid, and the Mediterranean climate regions. Conventionally, they are propagated by seeds or through vegetative propagation via rooted offshoots or grafting. However, these multiplication procedures remain insuffici...
