Research Article | Published: 01 June 2016

Antimicrobial Potential of Acetone and Methanol extracts of Rhus parviflora Roxb.

Manish  Panwar, Vijay Laxmi Trivedi, Dharam Chand Attri and Mohan Chandra Nautiyal

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 39 | Issue: 3 | Page No. 225-230 | 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2016-JJW3PS | Cite this article

Abstract

Rhus parviflora Roxb. (Anacardiaceae) is commonly known as “small flowered poison sumac”. It is found in Nepal, India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka at an altitude of 700–1100 masl. R. parviflora is recorded in Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia as having therapeutic uses for Vata vikara, which are the complications related to neurological disorders including anxiety, insomnia, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis. In present piece of work an effort is made to investigate the antimicrobial potential of acetone and methanol extracts were tested against various bacterial species viz., Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella pullorum by using Agar well diffusion methods and against the fungal species (Rhizoctonia. solani, Alternaria alternata, Fusarium. solani, Aspergillus humicola, Aspergillus ochraceus, Penicillium. canadense) by Poisoned food technique. Results highlighted antimicrobial potential of  R. parviflora extracts  against the range of microbes,  gram positive bacteria   as well as gram negative bacterial species  and fungal species, so that the extract from these plants can be used as broad spectrum antibiotic in near future.

Keywords

Antibacterial, Antifungal, Poisoned food technique, Agar well diffusion, Rhus parviflora Acetone, Methanol, Plant Extracts

Access Options

250/-

Buy Full Access in HTML Format

Instant access to the full article.

Get access to the full version of this article. Buy Full Access in HTML Format

References

1. Afolayan, A.J. (2003). Extracts from the shoots of Arctotis artotoides inhibit the growth of bacteria   and fungi, Pharm. Biol. 41: 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1076/phbi.41.1.22.14692

Google Scholar

2. Amghalia, E., Nagi, A.A., Shamsudin, M.N., Radu, S., Rosli, R., Neela, V. and Rahim, R.A. (2009). Multiplex PCR assays for the detection of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes in Staphylococccus aureus isolated from Malaysian Hospitals, Res Jour Bio Sci. 4(4):444-448.

Google Scholar

3. Bajracharya, D.Z. (1980). Nutritive values of Nepalese edible wild fruits, Z Lebensm Unters Forsch. 171:363–366.  https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01087135

Google Scholar

4. Bhattarai,  N.K. (1991). Potential neuroprotective flavonoid-based folk herbal medicines of Makawanpur district, Nepal, Int Jour Pharmacog. 29:284–295. https://doi.org/10.3109/13880209109082899

5. Ebi, G.C. and Ofoefule, S.I.  (1997). Investigating into folkloric antimicrobial activities of Landolphia owerrience, Phytother Res. 11: 149-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199703)11:2<149::AID-PTR43>3.0.CO;2-N

Google Scholar

6. Grover, R.K. and Moore, J.D. (1962). Toximetric studies of fungicides against brown rot organism- Sclerotinia fructicola and S. laxa, Phytopathology. 52: 876-80.

Google Scholar

7. Iwu, M.M. (2002). Threapeutic Agents from Ehtnomedicine. Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery.  Iwu MM, Wootton JC (Eds) Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-557X(02)80009-5

Google Scholar

8. Kumar, P.V., Sivaraj, A., Madhumita, G., Saral, A.M. and Kumar, B.S. (2010). In- vitro activities of P. kurroa rhizome extract using Agar well Diffusion method, Int Jour of Current Pharm Res. 2(1): 30-33.

Google Scholar

9. Mann, A., Banso, A. and Clifford, L.C. (2008). An antifungal property of crude plant extracts from Anogeissus leiocarpus and Terminalia avicennioides, Tanzaania Jour Health Res. 10(1): 34-38. https://doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v10i1.14339

Google Scholar

10. Marjorie, M.C. (1999). Plant products as antimicrobial agents, Clin Microbiol Rev. 12(4): 564-582. https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.12.4.564

Google Scholar

11. Mewari, N. and Kumar, P. (2008). Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts of Marchantia polymorpha, Pharma. Biol. 46: 819–822 https://doi.org/10.1080/13880200802315725

Google Scholar

12. Odhav, B., Juglal, S. and Govinden, R. (2002). Spices oils for the control of co- occurring mycotoxins producing fungi, Euro Food Res Tech. 65: 683– 687. https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X-65.4.683

Google Scholar

13. Okeke, M.I., Iroegbu, C.U., Eze, E.N., Okoli, A.S. and Esimone, C.O. (2001). Evaluation of extracts of the root of Landolphia owerrience for antibacterial activity, Jour. Ethnopharmacol. 78:119-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8741(01)00307-5

Google Scholar

14. Pundir, R.K. and Pranay, J. (2010). Comparative studies on the antimicrobial activity of black pepper (Piper nigram) and turmeric (Curcuma longa) extracts. Int Jour. Applied Biol. Pharma.  Tech. 1(2): 493- 501.

Google Scholar

15. Revis, G.P. (1832). Rhus parviflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed.2: 100

16. Shrestha, S., Park, J.H., Lee, D.Y., Cho, J.G., Cho, S., Yang, H.J., Yong, H.I., Yoon, M.S., Han, D.S. and Baek, N.I. (2012). Rhus parviflora and its biflavonoid constituent, rhusflavone, induce sleep through the positive allosteric modulation of GABAA-benzodiazepine receptors, Jour. Ethnopharmacol. 142(1):213–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2012.04.047

Google Scholar

17. Shrestha, S., Natarajan, S.K., Park, J.H., Lee, D.Y., Cho, J.G., Kim, G.S., Jeon, Y.J., Yeon, S.W., Yang, D.C. and Baek, N.I. (2013). Potential neuroprotective flavonoid-based inhibitors of CDK5/p25 from Rhus parviflora,  Bioorg. & Medi. Che. 5150–5154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.07.020

Google Scholar

18. Westh, H., Zinn, C.S., Rosdahl, V.T., and Sarisa Study Group (2004). An international multicenter study of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 15 hospitals in 14 countries. Microbial Drug Resist. 10: 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1089/1076629041310019

Google Scholar

About this article

How to cite

Panwar, M., Trivedi, V.L., Attri, D.C. and Nautiyal, M.C., 2016. Antimicrobial Potential of Acetone and Methanol extracts of Rhus parviflora Roxb.. Indian Journal of Forestry, 39(3), pp.225-230. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2016-JJW3PS

Publication History

Manuscript Published on 01 June 2016

Share this article

Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: