In Vitro Efficacy of Some Medicinal Plant Extracts against Aspergillus Niger: A Disease Causing Plant Fungus

Authors

  • JENIFER SOLOMON RAJAN Department of Biotechnology, Bon Secours College for Women’s, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
  • John Bastin T. M. M. Department of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, (SJCAST), Songea, Tanzania
  • Kezia Laveena D. Department of Biotechnology, Bon Secours College for Women’s, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Singh S. J. S. Bishop Heber College Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Priya S. Department of Biotechnology, S.T.E.T. Women’s College, Mannargudi, Tamilnadu Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37591/rrjodfdp.v1i2.312

Abstract

Medicinal plants have been used in the prevention, treatment, and cure disorders and diseases in ancient times and they provide abundant resources of antimicrobial compounds, has been used for centuries to inhibit the microbial growth. Diseases of medicinal plants were caused by the pathogenic microbes: especially fungi are common throughout the world. Microbial diseases of plants cause malfunctions such as disturb normal functions by degrading enzymes, toxin, and growth substances, reduce the yield, survival capacity, and resulting to death. In recent times, the medicinal plants were affected by exogenous, endogenous, and microbial infections. The medicinal plant Argemone mexicana L. (Mexican poppy) is an annual exotic weed flora used for medicine in several countries throughout the world and chosen for this study. This plant was frequently affected by many fungal pathogens. The present investigation focuses the isolation of frequent disease causing fungal pathogen (Aspergillus niger) from infected leaves and their control measures by using herbal extracts (Andrographis paniculata and Phyla nodiflora, Acalypha indica) via. In vitro approach.

 

Keywords: Argemone mexicana, exotic weed, exogenous, endogenous, pathogen, toxin

 

Downloads

Published

2019-03-19

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Research Article

License

Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form

(to be completed by authors)

I/ We, the undersigned author(s) of the submitted manuscript, hereby declare, that the above manuscript which is submitted for publication in the STM Journals(s), is not published already in part or whole (except in the form of abstract) in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation, and, is not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

  • I/We will not withdraw the manuscript after 1 week of submission as I have read the Author Guidelines and will adhere to the guidelines.
  • I/We Author(s ) have niether given nor will give this manuscript elsewhere for publishing after submitting in STM Journal(s).
  • I/ We have read the original version of the manuscript and am/ are responsible for the thought contents embodied in it. The work dealt in the manuscript is my/ our own, and my/ our individual contribution to this work is significant enough to qualify for authorship.
  •  I/We also agree to the authorship of the article in the following order:

Author’s name                                    

 

1. ________________

2. ________________

3. ________________

4. ________________

 

We  Author(s) tick this box and would request you to consider it as our signature as we agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when it is published by this journal.