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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity of Extracts from Five Portuguese Cowpea (

Acácio Salamandane, Mariana Candeias, Susana Lourenço, Emília Joana F Vieira, Elsa Mecha, Ricardo Gomes, Rosário Bronze, Cátia Nunes, Luisa Brito

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors.

Acácio SalamandaneLEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0822-5549
Mariana CandeiasLEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.
Susana LourençoLEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.
Emília Joana F VieiraLEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-0537-7355
Elsa MechaiBET-Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Av. da República, Apartado 12, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
Ricardo GomesiBET-Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Av. da República, Apartado 12, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7155-0059
Rosário BronzeiBET-Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Av. da República, Apartado 12, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
Cátia NunesUnidade Estratégica de Investigação e Serviços de Biotecnologia e Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Instituto Público, Avenida da República, Quinta do Marquês, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-2458-1148
Luisa BritoLEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-8614-5184

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-029867 (CoHeSus).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under the principles of the circular economy and sustainability, consumers, the food industry and health authorities have interest in new natural food preservatives to prevent foodborne diseases and increase produce shelf life. This work aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial properties of cowpea plant extracts. Grain, pod and leaf extracts from five Portuguese cowpea accessions were characterized in terms of their phenolic content. The values of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) were determined against pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria, as well as on post-harvest pathogenic filamentous fungi. In general, the phenolic content of pod extracts was higher than that of grains and leaves, although leaf extracts had the highest content of a broad-spectrum antibacterial flavonoid, quercetin. Grain extracts exhibited no detectable antimicrobial activity. In contrast, leaf and pod extracts from all five accessions generally displayed bactericidal effects. For bacteria, pod extracts showed MICs ranging from 5.1 to 87.7 mg/mL and MBCs from 20.3 to 87.7 mg/mL. Leaf extracts showed the most promising results, with MICs and MBCs ranging from 1.1 to 9.1 mg/mL. The results against fungi were not so expressive; nevertheless,

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsPlant ExtractsVignaBacteriaFungiMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPhenolsPlant LeavesPortugalAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsPhenolsPlant Extractscowpea (Vigna unguiculata) leaf extractsfoodborne pathogenic bacteriaminimum bactericidal concentration (MBC)minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)Penicillium expansumquercetin

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PMID40509235
PMCPMC12156331

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