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Review
. 2020 Nov 21;9(11):1619.
doi: 10.3390/plants9111619.

Baccharis dracunculifolia and Dalbergia ecastophyllum, Main Plant Sources for Bioactive Properties in Green and Red Brazilian Propolis

Adela Ramona Moise  1 , Otilia Bobiş  2
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Review

Baccharis dracunculifolia and Dalbergia ecastophyllum, Main Plant Sources for Bioactive Properties in Green and Red Brazilian Propolis

Adela Ramona Moise et al. Plants (Basel). .

Abstract

Nowadays, propolis is used as a highly valuable product in alternative medicine for improving health or treating a large spectrum of pathologies, an ingredient in pharmaceutical products, and also as a food additive. Different vegetal materials are collected by honeybees and mixed with wax and other own substances in order to obtain the final product, called propolis. It is known as the bee product with the widest chemical composition due to the raw material collected by the bees. Different types are known worldwide: green Brazilian propolis (having Baccharis dracunculifolia as the major plant source), red Brazilian propolis (from Dalbergia ecastophyllum), European propolis (Populus nigra L.), Russian propolis (Betula verrucosa Ehrh), Cuban and Venezuelan red propolis (Clusia spp.), etc. An impressive number of scientific papers already demonstrate the pharmacological potential of different types of propolis, the most important activities being the antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, immunomodulatory, and antioxidant activities. However, the bioactive compounds responsible for each activity have not been fully elucidated. This review aims to collect important data about the chemical composition and bioactive properties of the vegetal sources and to compare with the chemical composition of respective propolis types, in order to determine the connection between the floral source and the propolis properties.

Keywords: Baccharis dracunculifolia; Dalbergia ecastophyllum; bioactive properties; chemical composition; propolis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Green and red Brazilian propolis (photo source: [18,19]).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Chemical structure of the main green Brazilian propolis markers (a) para-coumaric acid; (b) artepillin C; (c) baccharin.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Chemical structure of the main red Brazilian propolis markers (a) vestinol; (b) neovestinol; (c) formononetine.
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