A Comparative Analysis of Morphological Characteristics between Endangered Local Prickly Pear and the Newly Introduced -Resistant Species in Eastern Morocco.

Prickly pear serves as a significant source of income for farmers worldwide, with production taking place in temperate, subtropical, and cold regions. The objective of the present investigation is to explore the morphological parameters of and which are resistant to the white cochineal (), as well as the local prickly pear that is currently threatened with extinction. This investigation aims to evaluate the feasibility of replacing the endangered local prickly pear with the recently introduced species and .

Optimizing the extraction of phenolic antioxidants from date palm fruit by simplex-centroid solvent mixture design.

Date palm ( L.) fruits are rich in various bioactive compounds, such as phenolic acids, hydroxycinnamates, flavonoid glycosides, coumarins, alkaloids, and proanthocyanidin oligomers. The focus of this study was to develop a simplex-centroid mix design method to identify the most suitable mixture of solvents (water, acetone, and methanol) to extract bioactive compounds from date fruits.