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STUDIES ON ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY, PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING TESTS, BIOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF CLITOREA TERNATEA LINN. PLANT EXTRACTS
Authors: Sriyeta Chakraborty , Souvagyalaxmi Sahoo, Anjana Bhagat , Sangita Dixit
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The Clitoria ternatea medicinal plant deserves multipotent bioactive secondary metabolites
potentials in a great deal. The aim of this study is to analyze the phytochemical, biochemical and
antimicrobial activities of the different plant extracts. Extracts from the leaves and seed of
Clitoria ternatea were extracted with water and methanol. Phytochemical analysis observed the
presence of flavonoids, Carbohydrates, phenols, saponins, tannins, quinines, terpenoids and
oxalate components in leaves and seed extract of methanol. In seeds aqueous and methanol
extracts, alkaloids, carbohydrates, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, amino acids,
proteins, terpenoids were present. Quantitatively, seed and leaves methanol extract have good
quantity of phenol, carbohydrates, tannin, flavonoid and terpenoid. Two bacterial and fungal
strains were taken for antimicrobial analysis. The antibacterial study against E.coli and B.subtlis,
result in the zone of inhibition which was more in case of methanol extracts. In antifungal
analysis, the extracts were showed equally effective against A.niger whereas the seeds methanol
extracts were little more effective against in case of P.chrysogenum. Hence, C. ternatea can be
used to discover bioactive natural products that may serve as a base in the development of new
natural plant-based medicine.