Antifungal activity of the Carica papaya important food and drug plant

The present investigations are being carried out to evaluate the antifungal medicinal properties of Carica papaya. The effects of different concentrations of alcoholic extract of Carica papaya (root, shoot and seed) on the radial growth of plant against the pathogenic fungi viz. Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Candida albicans and Microsporum fulvum. That with the increase in concentrations the rate of growth inhibition also increases. Observation further shows that like root extract growth is also inhibited in the presence of shoot and seed alcoholic extract under culture medium. further shows that the growth of these fungi inhibits more in presence of higher concentrations as compared to lower concentrations of extract.

Author(s): Mohit Kumar, Mohammed Faheem, Satyapal singh*, Anwar Shahzad and Ashok K Bhargava

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