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Determination of major, minor and trace elements in Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) used as medicine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir by using PIXE technique

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Medicinal plants have been identified for biological functions due to the presence of various minerals and metals in them. A study was conducted to determine selected elements in a medicinal plant dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) from selected sites of AJK (Azad Jammu and Kashmir) by using PIXE (particle induces x-ray emission) technique. The elements detected were Al, Ca, Cl, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, S, and Zn whose concentrations respectively ranged as 4.9–33, 672–1995.6, 23–163, 0.03–1.55, 0.42–4.10, 18–75, 516–1893, 11–34.35, 3.30–11.00, 23.5–70 mg/kg. Toxic elements were not detected in studied samples.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

    Sabiha Javied & Ambreen Aslam

  2. Department of Physics, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Farzana Arshad

  3. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

    M. Tufail

  4. National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ishaq Ahmad & Waheed Akram

  5. Agriculture and biological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Mahwish Jabeen

  6. College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Mahwish Jabeen

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Javied, S., Arshad, F., Tufail, M. et al. Determination of major, minor and trace elements in Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) used as medicine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir by using PIXE technique. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 4615–4624 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08555-z

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