Author(s)

Zuraida Ab Rahman¹, Shazwan Abd Shukor¹, Hartinee Abbas², Chandradevan A. L. Machap¹, Mohd Suhaimi Bin Alias³, Razali Mirad⁴, Syairah Sofiyanand⁵, Ayu Nazreena Othman¹

¹Biotechnology & Nanotechnology Research Centre, MARDI HQ, Persiaran MARDI-UPM, Serdang, Malaysia.
²Horticulture Research Centre MARDI Sintok, Bukit Kayu Hitam, Malaysia.
³Food Technology Research Centre, MARDI HQ, Persiaran MARDI-UPM, Serdang, Malaysia.
⁴Agrobiodiversity and Environment Research Centre, MARDI HQ, Persiaran MARDI-UPM, Serdang, Malaysia.
⁵Nilai Polytechnic, Kompleks Pendidikan Bandar Enstek, Bandar Enstek, Malaysia.

Kaempferia parviflora plants derived from in vitro culture were grown in the glasshouse. A comparison of the yield of total phenolics and total flavonoids under varying extraction conditions from rhizomes harvested from plants of different ages was undertaken. The results showed that phenolic and flavonoid contents in the rhizomes were highest 8 months after planting. Another study found that 2 g rhizomes extracted in 50 ml of water at 90°C for 120 minutes gave the best yield of phenolics and flavonoids. Under these conditions, an average of 210 mg GAE/g dry weight of total phenolics and 81 μg QCE/g dry weight of total flavonoids were obtained.

Phenolics, Flavonoids, Kaempferia parviflora, Extraction

Ab Rahman, Z. , Abd Shukor, S. , Abbas, H. , A. L. Machap, C. , Suhaimi Bin Alias, M. , Mirad, R. , Sofiyanand, S. and Nazreena Othman, A. (2018) Optimization of Extraction Conditions for Total Phenolics and Total Flavonoids from Kaempferia parviflora Rhizomes. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 9, 205-214. doi: 10.4236/abb.2018.95014.