A Review on Phytoremediation and Phytochemical Properties of <i>Catharanthus roseus </i>(L.)<i> </i>G. Don
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don is a significant evergreen medicinal plant belonging to the Apocynaceae family. The plant is known to treat diabetes and cancer. The plant height is about one meter tall and commonly cultivated commercially in southern Europe, Africa, Australia, and India. The primary constituents of the plants are flavonoids, polyphenols, and alkaloids like vincristine and vinblastine. The plant has many biological qualities, including wound healing, and antibacterial, anticancer, antioxidant, antihyperglycemic, antihypertensive, and antidiabetic effects. It is an attempt to compile the plant’s characteristics, phytochemical components, and traditional uses in this study. This study could be used to understand the health-promoting properties of this multipurpose plant and it may also provide clues for the discovery of a new lead compound of pharmaceutical importance. To help scientists and students comprehend the plant’s medical worth, an attempt has been made to provide significant information on the pharmacological properties of the plant against a variety of ailments, ranging from antibacterial to anticancer. In addition, it also possesses properties for phytoremediation. The process by which the plants absorb the harmful chemicals and heavy metals is widely known as phytoremediation. It is a practical and affordable method for eliminating heavy metals from soil and groundwater. As a result of global industrialization, soil pollution with hazardous metals like Cd, Pb, Zn, Cr, and Ni has significantly grown in recent years. The plants use various mechanisms to mitigate them such as Phytostabilization, Phyto-extraction, Phytovolatilization, etc. Numerous processes, such as uptake and concentration, transformation of pollutants, stability, and rhizosphere degradation- in which plants encourage the growth of bacteria underground in the root zone that subsequently breaks down pollutants. This review is an attempt to showcase possibilities of Periwinkle to get rid of soil pollutants while simultaneously offering insights about its phytochemical and pharmacological potential.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".