The current day emphasis is on sustainable agriculture, which uses less of chemical inputs like fertilizers and pesticides having adverse effect soil health, fertility environment. Thus, use microbial inoculants plays an important role in agriculture. AM fungi are known to improve the nutritional status, growth development plants. Asian countries very rich medicinal plant species major exporter...

Antimicrobial properties and medicinal effects of Andrographis paniculata was carried out in this study. leaves were collected from Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri identified by a botanist. The clinical isolates Klebsiella specie, Vibrio cholera Escherichia coli obtained the Microbiology Department Medical Centre, Owerri, then sub-cultured on sterile Nutrient agar microbial culture diluted w...

Micromeria fruticosa L Druce subsp. serpyllifolia is a medicinal herb that is widely used as folk medicine in the treatment of abdominal pains, diarrhea, eye infections, heart disorders, elevated blood pressure, colds and wounds. This study aims to investigation the constituents and biological activity of the essential oil and aqueous extract of the plant that had been collected from Nablus. Th...

Medicinal plants are in rich source of antimicrobial agents. The present study was carried out to evaluate the antibacterial and antifungal effect of five important plants namely, Andrographis paniculata, Bacopa monnieri, Centella asiatica, Nardostachys jatamansi ,Saraca indica. The preliminary phytochemical analysis was tested by using different extract of these plants for the presence of vari...

The stability of andrographolide, the major active diterpene lactone from Andrographis paniculata (BURM. f.) WALL. ex NEES., was determined to show that, while crystalline andrographolide was highly stable even at 70 degrees C (75% relative humidity) over a period of 3 months, its amorphous phase degraded promptly. Heat-accelerated conditions revealed second-order kinetics of the decomposition ...