Antifungal Properties of Seeds Cassia Farmasiana

Authors

  • Pramod Kumar Singh  Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Kamla Nehru Institute of Physical & Social Sciences Sultanpur, U.P., India
  • Pushkar Pratap Tiwari   Research Scholar, Research Laboratory Chemistry Department Kamla Nehru Institute of Physical & Social Sciences Sultanpur, U.P., India

Keywords:

Antifungal cassia farmasiana, Colletrotrichum gloeosporiodes, Fusarium oxysporum and Ganoderma lucidum.

Abstract

The antifungal activities of extracts in organic solvents from seeds of cassia farmasiana were tested. Based on the polarity, three organic solvents like Petroleum ether, Chloroform and Methanol were used for preparing the extracts (2.0% and 3.0%) from the stem and seeds of cassia farmasiana against three common forest fungi Viz. Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes, Fusarium oxysporum and Ganoderma lucidum. The inhibitory activity of all the extracts against three fungi remained consistently high in the chloroform extract i.e., 36.2%, 31.9% and 36.2% for C. gloeosporiodes, F. oxysporum and G. lucidum respectively; next effective reagent was Petroleum Ether. In general, higher concentration of extract (3.0%) was found to be more effective against all three fungi than lower concentration of 2.% chloroform extract (3.0%) was found to be most suppressive of C. Gloeosporiodes. (65.4 and 68.4%) than other fungi, while Petroleum Ether (3.0%) was found to be reasonlably inhibitory (57.3%) to F. oxysporum. It may be concluded from these observations, that concentration of stem and seed extracts from cassia farmasiana may change the extent of fungal growth Its important to completion of screening.

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2019-06-13

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Pramod Kumar Singh, Pushkar Pratap Tiwari , " Antifungal Properties of Seeds Cassia Farmasiana, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp.484-489, May-June-2019.