Antifungal and Antioxidant Potential of Methanolic Extracts from Acorus calamus L., Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck, Lemna minuta Kunth and Scenedesmus dimorphus (Turpin) Kützing
| العنوان: | Antifungal and Antioxidant Potential of Methanolic Extracts from Acorus calamus L., Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck, Lemna minuta Kunth and Scenedesmus dimorphus (Turpin) Kützing |
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| المؤلفون: | Diyana Dermendzhieva, Milena Tzanova, Toncho Dinev, Katya Velichkova, G. Beev |
| المصدر: | Applied Sciences Volume 11 Issue 11 Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 4745, p 4745 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Technology, antioxidant, Lemna minuta, QH301-705.5, DPPH, QC1-999, Aspergillus flavus, Antifungal, Methanolic plant extracts, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Acorus calamus, General Materials Science, Food science, Biology (General), QD1-999, Instrumentation, 030304 developmental biology, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 0303 health sciences, biology, 030306 microbiology, Chemistry, Physics, methanolic plant extracts, Process Chemistry and Technology, Aspergillus niger, Scenedesmus dimorphus, General Engineering, food and beverages, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), biology.organism_classification, Aspergillus parasiticus, Computer Science Applications, TA1-2040, Antioxidant, Aspergillus ochraceus, antifungal |
| الوصف: | Plant extracts are an important alternative to antibiotics, which are ever more restricted because of their developing microbial resistance and some adverse effects that have been observed following frequent application. The aim of the present study was to determine the antifungal and antioxidant activity of the methanolic extracts of Acorus calamus, Chlorella vulgaris, Lemna minuta and Scenedesmus dimorphus. The antifungal activity of the extracts against strains of Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus parasiticus, Aspergillus ochraceus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus carbonarius, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium chrysogenum and Alternaria alternata was evaluated via the agar well diffusion method. The antioxidant activity of the extracts was measured through the determination of three parameters—total phenolic content, total flavonoid content and radical scavenging potential (determined through UV/Vis analysis). A. calamus extracts had the highest antimicrobial activity against eight fungal strains, followed by the C. vulgaris, L. minuta and S. dimorphus extracts, which were inhibitory against two to three strains. Among the extracts from the species studied, the extract from S. dimorphus showed the highest antioxidant potential, as determined via the DPPH (1,1’-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazil-radical) method. This correlated to its high total phenolic and flavonoid content. From A. calamus and L. minuta, methanolic extracts were obtained that exhibited similar values of the aforementioned parameters, followed by C. vulgaris extracts, which showed the lowest antioxidant activity. Based on the Pearson correlation coefficients, the impacts of the total phenolic content and the total flavonoid content on radical scavenging capacity are similar, and flavonoids were a significant part of the total phenolic compounds extracted from the plant materials studied. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 2076-3417 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a2e34585aa7540db3b8779814a35480d https://doi.org/10.3390/app11114745 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a2e34585aa7540db3b8779814a35480d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20763417 |
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