Cite this article:
Bhalerao (2016). Preliminary Phyto-Chemical Investigation of Fruit Pulp Crude Extracts of Balanites aegyptiaca Del and its Potential against Gram Positive and Gram Negative Infectious Agents. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 29(1), pp.199-200.
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Preliminary
Phyto-Chemical Investigation of Fruit Pulp Crude Extracts of Balanites
aegyptiaca Del and its Potential against Gram Positive and Gram Negative
Infectious Agents
Bharat M Bhalerao
Department of Biochemistry, M. J.
College, Jalgaon - 425 001, India
Corresponding author email: bharat1583@rediffimail.com
[Received:
15 January 2016; accepted: 4 February 2016]
Abstract: Plants have
been the source of food, fiber and fuel for man and plant kingdom also provides
a wide variety of natural products with diverse chemical structure and a vast
array of biological activities. India has one of the richest traditions of
medicinal plants in the world. Many traditional healing herbs and their parts
have medicinal value and can be used to prevent, alleviate or cure several
human diseases. Besides, higher plants are major sources of natural products
which are used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, flavor and fragrance
ingredients, food additives and pesticides. Balanites aegyptiaca an endangered
medicinal plant a member of family Balanitaceae is a genus of small, thorny
trees, distributed from Africa to Burma. It is also found in throughout drier
parts of India. Fruit pulp extracts of B. aegyptiaca were analyzed for
preliminary phyto-chemical investigation and in- vitro antibacterial potential
against various Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria by agar well diffusion
method. The butanolic extract 100ug showed maximum zone of inhibition than
other extracts against four bacteria. This antibacterial activity could be
correlated to the presence of secondary metabolites such as saponins,
lavonoids, alkaloids, phenolics and terpenes. In the present communication, we
report the antibacterial activity and suggest that the fruit pulp extract could
be used as an alternative in the fight against S. aureus, E. coli, P.
aeruginosa and B.subtilis.
Keywords: Balanites
aegyptiaca, Fruit pulp extract, Secondary metabolites, Antibacterial activity