ESTIMATION OF TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT (TPC) OF SELECTED ALLIUM SPECIES OF GUJARAT USING DIFFERENT EXTRACTS

Abstract

Plants are known as a vital source for so many drugs having different groups like anticancer, antimicrobials, antioxidant etc. Therefore, there are so many plants, which are used widely by the tribal people across the world. As we know that nature can cure everything by one or another way. According to Ayurveda, plants have been known to cure various diseases like cancer, heart diseases, asthma etc. Now-a-days researchers are focusing on estimation and characterization of various plants and their constituents which are responsible for curing so many diseases according to traditional use of plants given in the Ayurveda. As we know plants are capable to produce secondary metabolites and the most important group is phenolic group. Phenolic compounds work as defense mechanism of plants against herbivores and pathogens. The present study represents the estimation of total Phenolic content of medicinally useful plants Allium cepa L. (Onion) and Allium sativum L. (Garlic) in its different extracts of bulb from selected districts of Gujarat. Chloroform was selected as non-polar solvent, acetone as polar protic and methanol and distilled water as polar protic solvent. The estimation of total phenolic content was conducted by using standard protocol. The data generated from this experiment provides basis for the advances in the pharmaceutical industries