Natural antimicrobial and bioactive compounds from Ludwigia parviflora Roxb

Antimicrobial compounds from natural sources

Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Nowadays many infections are often caused by multi-resistant microorganisms resulting in difficult to treat diseases and, consequently, substantial increases in healthcare costs. The relative easy access to the antimicrobials and also the massive employment of these compounds for industrial purposes, including ...

Bioactive Natural Matrices and Compounds

The demand for healthy ingredients and a natural way of preventing diseases is contributing to the increased use of natural matrices. There has been a lot of research indicating that general antioxidant properties are not the contributing factors to improving human health but rather the antioxidant properties of specific compounds involved in specific cell signaling mechanisms that need to be e...

In vitro propagation of Lagerstromia parviflora Roxb. from adult tree.

A micropropagation protocol based on axillary bud proliferation has been developed from mature Lagerstromia parviflora adult tree. Nodal segments cultured on woody plant medium supplemented with 5.0 microl. BAP and 0.25 microm IAA gave maximum (86.9%) morphogenetic response. Proliferated shoots (10.7 per explants) were elongated to 3.9 cm within 6 weeks. In vitro produced micro-shoots were subj...

Cytotoxic Compounds from Calotropis gigantea (Linn.) and Amoora rohituka (Roxb.)

Calotropis gigantea (Linn) and Amoora rohituka (Roxb.) have long been used in folkloric medicine for the treatment of various ailments in Bangladesh. The present study was designed to investigate the cytotoxicity of isolated compounds from these two plants. Two compounds, named β-boswellic acid (compound-1) and 2-methoxy-14-calamenenone (compound-2) were isolated from the flowers of Calotropis ...

Developing antimicrobial compounds from natural sources