Bioactive Potential of Leaf Extracts (Tulsi, Curry and Ashoka) Through Total Phenolic Content, Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antifungal Analyses
Hafiza Mehwish Iqbal1, Salman Khurshid1*, Saqib Arif1, Qurrat-ul-Ain Akbar1, Saba Iqbal2, Shahid Yousaf3, Kainat Qureshi1, Abdul Karim Khan5, Abdul Ahad6, Aqeel Ahmed Siddique4 and Neelofar Hamid7
1Food Quality and Safety Research Institute, SARC, PARC, Karachi, Pakistan; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan; 3Food Science Research Institute, NARC, PARC, Islamabad, Pakistan; 4Institute of Plant Introduction, SARC, PARC, Pakistan; 5Mountain Agricultural Research Center, PARC, Gilgit, Pakistan; 6Outreach Research Activities Unit, PARC-SARC, Karachi, Pakistan; 7Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Salman Khurshid, Food Quality and Safety Research Institute, SARC, PARC, Karachi, Pakistan; Email:
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Figure 1:
Mean Inhibition Zone Diameter of various extracts against (A) bacterial strains; (B) fungal strains (N.C: Negative control; P.C: Positive control).
Table 2:
Plates displaying antibacterial and antifungal activity of MeOH crude extract from the leaves.
Figure 2:
DPPH scavenging activity of MeOH, Ace and Aq extracts of leaves of O. basilicum (A); S. asoca (B) and M. koenigii (C).