Antifungal activity of Commiphora wightii, an important medicinal plant

Commiphora wightii (Arnott.) Bhandari is an endangered, slow growing medicinal tree. The present investigations are being carried out to evaluate the antifungal medicinal properties of Carica papaya. The effects of different concentrations of alcoholic extract of Commiphora wightii (root, shoot and seed) on the radial growth of plant against the pathogenic fungi viz. Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Candida albicans and Microsporum fulvum. That with the increase in concentrations the rate of growth inhibition also increases. Observation further shows that like root extract growth is also inhibited in the presence of shoot and seed alcoholic extract under culture medium. Further shows that the growth of these fungi inhibits more in presence of higher concentrations as compared to lower concentrations of extract.