IN VITRO ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM NARAYANPUR, BASTAR, CHHATTISGARH AGAINST ASPERGILLUS NIGER

Life sciences

Chhattisgarh state is declared as “Herbal State” with its bountiful natural resources of forests and agricultural fields and it is equally well known for its medicinal Hot spots. The dense forests have rich and unique biological diversity with a wide range of medicinal plants. Narayanpur district the southern parts of Chhattisgarh state is the store houses of precious medicinal plants and provide the local people, mostly tribes with livelihood opportunities. In the present study in vitro antifungal activity of petroleum ether, chloroform, acetone and aqueous leaves extracts of four plants (Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC., Celastrus peniculatus Willd., Dillenia indica Linn., Sterculia urens Roxb.) and tuber extracts of one plant (Dioscore hispida Dennst.) was determined against Aspergillus niger. Antifungal activity was performed by using Poison food technique on Potato dextrose agar media (PDA). It was observed that tuber of D. hispida in aqueous extract showed maximum growth inhibition % at 1000µl conc. on A. niger (92 ± 0) which was more than the value of the standard antibiotics Amphotericine- B (87.55 ± 1.77) followed by D. gangeticum in acetone leaf extract showed maximum growth inhibition % at 1000µl conc. on A. niger (91.55 ± 0.44) which was more than the value of the standard antibiotics Amphotericine- B (87.55 ± 1.77), C. peniculatus in chloroform leaf extract showed maximum growth inhibition % at 1000µl conc. on A. niger (86.66 ± 4.07) which was nearest to the value of the standard antibiotics Amphotericine- B (87.55 ± 1.77), S. urens in acetone leaf extract showed maximum growth inhibition % at 1000µl conc. on A. niger (86.22 ± 2.70) which was nearest to the value of the standard antibiotics Amphotericine- B (87.55 ± 1.77), D. indica in chloroform leaf extract showed maximum growth inhibition % at 1000µl conc. on A. niger (85.77 ± 4.88) which was nearest to the value of the standard antibiotics Amphotericine- B (87.55 ± 1.77).

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