ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Najat A. Bokhari, Kahkashan Perveen , Iffat Siddiqui, Iram Siddiqui, Mona S. Wahibi and Dina A.W. Soliman
1Department of Botany and Microbiology, King Saud University, P.O. Box 22452, Riyadh-11495, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(4):2981-2986
© The Author(s). 2013
Received: 15/08/2013 | Accepted: 05/10/2013 | Published: 30/12/2013
Abstract

Four important plant pathogenic fungi were subjected to evaluate the antifungal potentiality of Citrullus colocynthis. It was recorded that the growth of Fusarium oxysporum, Alternaria alternata, Macrophomina phaseolina and Colletotrichum musae were significantly (Pd” 0.01) reduced by extract of C. colocynthis obtained by various solvents (water, acetone, ethanol, methanol and chloroform). Ethanolic extract gave the most promising results against all tested fungi. M. phaseolina was observed to be highly sensitive to the ethanol extract and zone of inhibition was 26.5 mm. Ethanolic extract rendered highest the percent growth reduction of M. phaseolina (41.67%). The growth F. oxysporum, C. musae and A. alternata were reduced by 37.2%, 35.67% and 28.935% respectively by the ethanolic extract of C. colocynthis. GC-MS analysis of crude extract showed that the major components of the crude extract were l-(+)-Ascorbic acid 2,6-dihexadecanoate (94.2%), Eicosanoic acid (92.3%) and 2-Heptadecenal (91.8%).

Keywords

Antifungal activity, Citrullus colocynthis, Plant pathogenic fungi, GC-MS

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