Papaver Plants: Current Insights on Phytochemical and Nutritional Composition Along with Biotechnological Applications

Monica Butnariu, Cristina Quispe, Jesús Herrera-Bravo, Marius Pentea, Ioan Sarac, Aylin Seylam Küşümler, Beraat Özçelik, Sakshi Painuli, Prabhakar Semwal*, Muhammad Imran, Tanweer Aslam Gondal, Simin Emamzadeh-Yazdi, Natallia Lapava, Zubaida Yousaf, Manoj Kumar, Ali Hussein Eid, Yusra Al-Dhaheri, Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, María del Mar Contreras*, Javad Sharifi-Rad*William C. Cho*

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Abstract

The genus Papaver is highly esteemed in the pharmacy industry, in the culinary field, and as ornamental plants. These plants are also valued in traditional medicine. Among all Papaver species, Papaver somniferum L. (opium poppy) is the most important species in supplying phytochemicals for the formulation of drugs, mainly alkaloids like morphine, codeine, rhoeadine, thebaine, and papaverine. In addition, Papaver plants present other types of phytochemicals, which altogether are responsible for its biological activities. Therefore, this review covers the phytochemical composition of Papaver plants, including alkaloids, phenolic compounds, and essential oils. The traditional uses are reviewed along with their pharmacological activities. Moreover, safety aspects are reported to provide a deep overview of the pharmacology potential of this genus. An updated search was carried out in databases such as Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, and PubMed to retrieve the information. Overall, this genus is a rich source of alkaloids of different types and also contains interesting phenolic compounds, such as anthocyanins, flavonols, and the characteristic indole derivatives nudicaulins. Among other pharmacological properties, numerous preclinical studies have been published about the analgesic, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and antidiabetic activities of Papaver plants. Although it highlights the significant impact of this genus for the treatment of a variety of diseases and conditions, as a future prospect, characterization works accompanying preclinical studies are required along with clinical and toxicology studies to establish a correlation between the scientific and traditional knowledge.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2041769
JournalOxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Funding

Copyright © 2022 Monica Butnariu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library. Some of the components in Figure 2 are made with the help of icons by Freepik from Flaticon. M.d.M. Contreras would like to express their gratitude to the FEDER UJA project 1260905 funded by “Programa Operativo FEDER 2014-2020” and “Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento de la Junta de Andalucía” and the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain for the Ramón y Cajal grant (RYC2018-026177-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).

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Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento de la Junta de Andalucía
Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain for the Ramón y CajalRYC2018-026177-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Qatar National Library
European Regional Development Fund1260905

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