Isolation and identification of bioactive flavonoids (genistein, rutin) from Portulaca oleracea L. cultivated in Iraq

Abstract

Portulaca oleracea L. belongs to portulacaeae family which is succulent shrubs contains about20 genera and 500 species. P. oleracea L. is one of the green vegetables cultivated and wildgrown in Iraq and used largely as food. It contains many active constituents like: alkaloids,vitamins and minerals such as (potassium, magnesium, omega 3, calcium and iron ), saponins,cardiac glycosides, flavonoids (genistein, rutin, quercetin) . In this study genistein and rutin wereisolated from P. oleracea L. by the aid of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), andpreparative thin layer chromatography (TLC), and identified by FT-IR, and measurement ofmelting point (M.P).