ARTICLE NAME:

PHYTOCONSTITUENTS AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF MORINDA TINCTORIA

AUTHOR NAME

V. Anuradha, N.Yogananth, M.Syed Ali

ISSUE:

VOL.1, NO.1

YEAR:

2018

PAGE NO:

1 - 12

ABSTRACT:

The genus Morinda tinctoria plants have different uses; some are used as foods, and some species as remedy in traditional medicine. The powdered plant material was extracted by using four different solvents namely water, ethyl acetate, chloroform and methanol. The result indicates the presence of alkaloids, glycosides, saponins, tannins, flavanoids, cardiac glycosides, steroidal terpenes, anthraquinones and carbohydrates, in all four extracts of Morinda tinctoria. The chloroform extract showed highest antibacterial activity followed by ethyl acetate, Methanol and water and all the extracts showed maximum inhibition at the concentration of 200 µg/ml. Among the tested bacterial strains, Staphylococcus aureus showed high susceptibility to all the tested leaf extracts of Morinda tinctoria. Keywords: Morinda tinctoria, Rubiaceae, phytoconstituents, antibacterial activity.

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