Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

Overview of Selected Native Seeds in Agricultural Wastes and its Properties

1Department of Biology, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Tg Malim, Perak, Malaysia

2Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Online published on 8 August, 2019.

Abstract

Agricultural waste is considered as the valuable assert in the world, they can be actively used as fibers, fertilizer, biogas production, softwood furniture manufacturing etc. However, limitations are to be taken into account. Generally, seeds play a major role in agricultural waste which indicated with huge amount of nutritive value and phytoconstituents. They reflect the therapeutic activity. In this review, we discussed the seeds phytoconstituents and their utility as bioactive agent. In near future, it would be efficient to gain knowledge of seeds which is considered as a waste in their therapeutic evaluation and also as nutritive value.

Keywords

Agrowaste-seeds, seeds, bioactivity, physico-chemical properties, chemical composition