Moringa species

The three principally Asian Moringa species, M. concanensis, M. oleifera and M. peregrine, have slender trunks at maturity and tough, fibrous roots with bark that is smoother, spongier, and more fragile than that of the stem. The root bark of all three species is less fissured than that of the very base of the stem (1)... 

Table 8.18 Fatty acid composition (%) of Moringa species...

Vegetable oils and dairy and animal fats were used extensively in ancient times in cookery, for lighting, and as ingredients of cosmetics, balms and medications [21 29]. Olive, almond, balanos, castor, coconut, linseed, moringa, palm, poppy, radish, safflower, and sesame oils were well known oleiferous species in the Mediterranean [21,30], Data on... 

Traditionally, M. oleifera seeds have been used to clarify turbid waters in rural areas of Asia and Africa (29). Of the identified 14 species of the moringaceae family, M. oleifera has gained considerable importance as flocculants in nearly all tropical and subtropical regions (8). Further, the coagulating property of the seed powder of this plant has been used for various aspects of water treatment such as turbidity, alkahnity, total dissolved sohds, and hardness (30, 51,54, 63). The seeds of six more frequent and cultivated species of Moringa have been found to contain flocculant components. Numerous studies so far confirms that M. oleifera seeds possess effective coagulation properties (49,54,63,65). Branches of the M. oleifera when lopped and thrown into turbid and contaminated wells, over an episode of time, the previously dirty water becomes clear. The desiccated M. oleifera seeds are... 

Among the trees discussed, two species are local to arid climates, and would prove useful crops under similar conditions. They are the argan tree of Morocco and members of the Moringa family found in Saudi Arabia and India. The oils have about 80% unsaturated components, with low linolenic acid content. 

Keywords Antimicrobial, Brassica rapa chinensis, Artocarpus altilis, Solanum melongena fruit, Moringa oleifera leaves, E.coli, S.aureus, Bacillus species, K. pneumonia, C. albicans, antimicrobial selectivity, bacteria susceptibility... 

Y. Kalogo, E Rosillon, E Hammes, and W Verstraete, Effect of a water extract of Moringa oleifera seeds on the hydrolytic microbial species diversity of a UASB reactor treating domestic wastewater, Letters in Applied Microbiology, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 259—264, 2000. 

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