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PHARMACOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF OBNOXIOUS WATER WEED: EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES (MART.) SOLMS
S. Khalid, 2, S. Shaheen, K. Hussain, M. N. Shahid, S. Sarwar1.

1Lahore College for Women University, Jail Road, Lahore. Pakistan.

2Institute of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Pakistan.

3Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

4Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Township, Lahore, Pakistan.

Corresponding Author: sanakhalidpu@gmail.com
Page Number(s): 1465-1475
Published Online First: August 03, 2020
Publication Date: August 03, 2020
ABSTRACT

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, commonly known as water hyacinth, an aquatic plant coined to diverse activities including its role as an obnoxious weed with tremendous economic and aesthetic implications. The aim of the current experiment was to explore antimicrobial, antioxidant and phytochemical properties of this weed while using different non-polar solvents viz., petroleum ether, chloroform and polar solvents i.e., methanol and aqueous (distilled water) solvent extracts of root, stem and leaf of E. crassipes. Disc diffusion method was employed to analyse the antifungal activity against two fungi (Penicillium italicum and Botrytis cinerea) and antibacterial activities against two bacteria vizXanthomonas axonopodis and Bordetella pertussis. The extracts of weed showed significant activity against these two fungi and two bacteria when compared to standard. Maximum antifungal and antibacterial potential was recorded in leaf chloroform extract against B. cinerea (29 mm) and in leaf methanol extract against B. pertussis (17 mm) respectively among other extracts. Moreover, antioxidant potential of weed also showed the presence of significant secondary metabolites. Phytochemical analysis indicate presence of alkaloids, coumarins, terpenoids, tannins and flavonoides and absence of saponins, anthrax-quinones, phlobatanins and cardiac glycosides by standard procedures. These results also depict the significance of the plant in pharmaceutical industry.

Keywords: Eichhornia crassipes, antibacterial activity, antioxidant activity, phytochemical analysis
Open Access: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).


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