Volume : V, Issue : VII, July - 2015

Carotenoid and Antibacterial analysis of Thuja occidentalis

Chaudhary Pooja, Gauni Bhagwati, Mehta Kavit

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 Carotenoid are secondary metabolite included in class of tetraterpenoids. This study conducted for analyze the carotenoid content of methanol and ethanol leaf extract of Thuja occidentalis. It revealed to determine the amount of total carotenoid in each leaf extract in addition to this study compared the effectivess of leaf extract against both gram positive and negative bacteria and related to total caretenoid content to antibacterial activity.Thuja occidentalis Leaves shows a good antibacterial activity against these selected bacterial species such as Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus amyloliquifaciens,Proteus vulgaris and Salmonellatyphi. But the more effective against Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus amyloliquifaciens,Proteus vulgaris and Salmonella typhi. The total carotenoid content of leaf extract was measured using this method of Tao etal. This result revealed that methanol and ethanol leaf extract have 11.25617 ug /gm,8.9881 ug /gm of total carotenoids respectively. Methanol extract which has the highest total carotenoid content also exhibited highest zone of inhibition observed in Bacillus amyloliquifaciens and Salmonella typhi.These results revealed that there might be some secondary metabolite which are present in the Thuja occidentalis plants which have more potent antibacterial activity than other parts of Thuja occidentalis plant as compare to the leave extract. There is no report found on carotenoid and antibacterial analysis of Thuja occidentalis.

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Chaudhary Pooja, Gauni Bhagwati, Mehta Kavit Carotenoid and Antibacterial Analysis of Thuja Occidentalis Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 7 July 2015

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