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Bioactive Potential of Leaf Extracts (Tulsi, Curry and Ashoka) Through Total Phenolic Content, Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antifungal Analyses

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: [email protected] 

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).

Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research

September

Vol.37, Iss. 3, Pages 190-319

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