Cytology and biochemical estimation of Neptunia prostrate (Lamk.) Baillon: an ethnomedicinal aquatic legume of Tripura, North East India.

Anupam Guha*, Debanjali Bhattacharjee, Kanika Tripura, Abhijit Bhattacharya

Abstract


Neptunia prostrate (Lamk.) Baillon, commonly used as shoot vegetable in Tripura, North East India. Young shoots are used as vegetable in different forms of recipes of tribal and rural communities of this region. The utility of the vegetable as good source of protein and total amino acids with low level of phenolics and sugar clearly indicated its significance as useful health diet and alternative food supplement to the common people. The somatic chromosome number and karyomorphological details were also investigated in this plant. Somatic chromosome number was found to be 2n=56 with karyotype formula A2B42C12. The chromosome count and constancy of the karyotype with biochemical analysis recorded in the present study.

Keywords


Neptunia prostrata; Somatic chromosome; Biochemical estimation

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