Abstract

EVALUATION OF ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY IN TRIGONELLA FOENUM GRAECUM LEAVES

Chaitanya Sravanthi Kota*,Bhargavi N, Abhinay Kumar R

Abstract

Pharmacological industries have produced a number of new antibiotics in the last decades, resistance to these drugs by microorganisms has also increased. For a long period of time, plants have been a valuable source of natural products for maintaining human health, especially in the last decade, with more intensive studies for natural therapies.The use of plant extracts and phytochemicals, both with known antimicrobial properties, can be of great significance in therapeutic treatments. The main objective is to study the anti-bacterial activity of Trigonella plant extract which was evaluated with antibiotic susceptible and resistant microorganisms. The highest antimicrobial potential was observed for the methanolic leaf extract of Trigonellafoenumgraecum when compared with the standard drug, Gentamycin. Steroidal and Phenolic constituents are found to be present in the leaf extract.

Keywords: Trigonellafoenumgraecum ,antibacterial activity, Gentamycin