Harikrishna Ramaprasad Saripalli

Antimicrobial Studies onConventional & Cultured

Plant Tissue ExtractsEfficacy of Bio-active metabolites from Cultured

tissues and their Phyto-chemical studies

Plants have been the source of treatment for many ailments of man sincetimes immemorial. With progress in man’s intelligence many indigenousmedicinal systems based on herbal drugs, obtained from a wide variety ofplants possessing therapeutic properties, developed all over the world.These are in use even today. Most of these natural products or drugs arederived from secondary metabolites of plants. Generally, production ofsecondary metabolites is high in plant tissues developed in vitro rather thanthe conventionally grown plant tissues. The secondary metabolites serve asplant defence mechanisms against microorganisms, insects and herbivores.In the present study, thirty different indigenous traditional medicinalplants were selected for an analysis of their antimicrobial activity alongwith the in vitro cultured tissues of the same plants, against somepathogenic microorganisms and the results were compared. Theexperimental plants’ solvent extracts were also subjected to preliminaryphytochemical screening so as to identify the chemical constituents(bioactive components) which may be responsible for the antimicrobialactivity exhibited.

Harikrishna Ramaprasad Saripalli

Dr. HARIKRISHNA RAMAPRASAD. SARIPALLI,M.Sc,M.Phil,Ph.D-Biotech. is currently an Asst.Prof. ofBiotechnology at C N C S, Aksum University, Ethiopia,North East Africa. He has 13yrs of rich Academic andIndustrial experience; published more than 30 papersin reputed National and International journals,conferences; and also Co-authored 8 text books.

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