Abstract
The study investigates the presence and quantity of antimicrobial sinigrin glucosinolates in tomato leaves after spraying them with moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaf extract (MLAE). Moringa concentrates (0.5, 0.75, 1.00 and 1.5 kg L−1 (w v−1)) were prepared. Distilled water was the control. Sampled tomato leaves were air-dried, freeze-dried and extracted firstly using pure methanol in a hot water bath and then pellet re-extracted using 5 mL of hot aqueous methanol (70% v v−1). An ion exchange column, and sulphatase was used to achieve glucosiodesulphonation. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was employed in the identification and quantitative analysis of the sinigrin glucosinolates. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) leaves treated with MLAE revealed highly significant (p < .001) content of sinigrin glucosinolates. The sinigrin standard and the desulphated sinigrin glucosinolates had a 7 s retention time difference; 5 kg L−1 (w v−1) resulted in a superior amount of sinigrin in tomato leaves as compared to all the other MLAE concentrations. The study reveals that spraying MLAE on putatively diseased tomato leaves donates specific quantifiable glucosinolates like sinigrin, which may be involved in defense against tomato diseases and, hence, recommends use of 5 kg L−1 (w v−1) for the highest sinigrin defense tag.
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