Staphylococcus aureus has gained much attention in the last decade as it is a major cause of the Urinary Tract Infection in Diabetic patients. The Extended Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESβL) producers are highly resistant to several conventional antibiotics. This limits the therapeutic options.Hence efforts are now taken to screen few medicinal plants, which are both economic and less toxic. Among th...

The High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) was carried out for the estimation of flavonoid content in the medicinal plant Elephantopus scaber [Linn], grown under heat stress conditions. The experimental plant system was subjected to the Heat Stress Induced (HSI) condition for two hours at 40 °C temperature daily for 7 days. Plants grown in Green House condition was taken as a contro...