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. 2014 May 20;10(5):316-9.
doi: 10.6026/97320630010316. eCollection 2014.

A report on biocompounds from palm fossil of India

Dinesh Chandra Sharma  1 , Mohd Sajid Khan  1 , M Salman Khan  1 , Rashmi Srivastava  2 , Ashwini Kumar Srivastava  1 , Ritu Shukla  1
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A report on biocompounds from palm fossil of India

Dinesh Chandra Sharma et al. Bioinformation. .

Abstract

The occurrence of a large number of fossil woods having resemblance in anatomical features with the modern palm genus, Phoenix L in Deccan Intertrappean fossil flora of Maastrichtian-Danian age (i. e. Late Cretaceous and Earliest Tertiary (65-67 my)) indicates the most primitive record of date palm. Present discovery of biocompounds from fossil wood of Phoenix collected from Deccan Intertrappean having affinity with the biocompounds known from modern plant further exemplify the earliest documentation of Phoenix in Indian peninsula.

Keywords: Biocompounds; First record; Fossil wood; Indian date palm; Phoenix.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
A) Inner zone showing lacunar ground tissue parenchyma consists of variable shapes and circular to elongated cells showing spongy nature of ground tissue; B) Cross section of stem showing orientation and distribution of closely spaced fibrovascular bundles, thick walled fibrous sheath cell with small and larger lumen; C) Enlargement of oval shaped fibrovascular bundle consisting of 2 circular metaxylem vessel, thick walled sclerenchymatous fibrous sheath around the vascular part of the bundle.
Figure 2
Figure 2
A) GCMS profile in Hexane; B) GCMS profile in Dichloromethane; C) GCMS profile in Methanol; D) GCMS profile in Dichloromethane (gradual).
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