ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIFUNGAL POTENTIAL OF FRUIT BODY EXTRACTS FROM DALDINIA CONCENTRICA (BOLTON) CESATI & DE NOTARIS
AbstractAqueous and methanol extracts of fruit bodies of Daldinia concentrica were tested against five pathogenic fungi like Penicillium sps., Aspergillus fumigatous, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus and Mucour indicus and also five bacterial strains such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans . The antibacterial and antifungal activities of the above extracts were determined by well diffusion assay. Nearly both the extracts were found effective against these bacteria and fungi. The aqueous extract showed higher zone of inhibition than the methanol extract tested. The extracts exhibited antibacterial activities with zone of inhibition ranging from 14 – 54 mm and 5 – 23 mm for aqueous and methanol extracts whereas, antifungal activities zone of inhibition ranging from 9 – 25 mm and 7 – 18 mm, for aqueous and methanol extracts, respectively. The organisms were more sensitive to the aqueous extract of the fungal fruit bodies than that of methanol extract
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Devendiran Kavitha, Ramalingam Balakumar, Elumalai Sivaprakasam, Sekaran Sridhar* and Jebamalai Suresh Kumar
Department of Botany, Government Arts College, Thiruvannamalai- 606 603, Tamil Nadu, India
20 May, 2011
24 August, 2011
28 August, 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.2(9).2376-79
01 September, 2011
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