Phytochemical Activities of Artemissia vulgaris and Acacia nilotica Plant Extracts
Shaista Yaqoob
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fatima Waheed
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Qurban Ali *
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Arif Malik *
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
With the growing era, there is tremendous need to produce high potential antimicrobial drugs and medicines from various herbaceous plants and natural resources has been increasing due to increasing multiple drug resistance in pathogens. An experiment was performed to know about antimicrobial activities of various plant extracts. These activities were tested by using agar diffusion method. The bacterial as well as fungal strains were collected and were cultured on agar plates. After that these plates were left in incubator for 24 hours at 37°C to develop zones clearly all round the plant extracts. The activities of bacteria and fungi were determined by using inhibition diameter zones. The clear inhibition zones were found against bacterial strains in study. Antimicrobial activity of acetone, n-hexane and water extracts viz. Acacia nilotica and Artemissia vulgaris tested against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtils and E. coli as well as Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporum. Acetone extracts were found to be more effective as compared with n-hexane while water extracts show no activity.
Keywords: Acacia nilotica, Artemissia vulgaris, phytochemicals, antibacterial, antifungal.