QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHYTOCHEMICALS IN SELECTED SEAWEEDS OF MANDAPAM COAST, RAMESWARAM, INDIA

Abstract

In the world, seaweeds or marine macro algae area unit is renewable living resources that are used as a several components like food, feed, and fertilizers. They are typically live hooked up to rock or alternative laborious substrata in coastal areas. Turbinaria found in tropical marine waters, which grows on rocky substrates. Turbinaria belongs to the class- Anthozoa, Order-Scleractinia, family-Dendrophylliidae, Genus- Turbinaria. The aim of the present study is the phytochemical analyses were evaluated for the marine algae Turbinaria conoides and Turbinaria ornate from Mandapam coast, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India. To cope with the assessment of the chemical composition of assorted marine seaweeds were extracted from different solvents. The current study reveals that the seaweeds contain a high quantity of phytochemical constituents. Besides, the presence of alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, phenols, coumarins, proteins, carbohydrates, quinones and glycosides from Turbinaria ornata and Turbinaria conoides. This report will lead to the isolation and characterization of these active secondary metabolites for bio-efficacy and bioactivity. Therefore, seaweed extracts possessed higher amount of phytochemicals and which proves that these selected seaweeds will have provide unique and novel metabolites of unprecedented structures, with antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-plasmodial, nematicidal, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and anti-angiogenic activities, these bioactive compounds may provide high-quality drug candidates for pharmaceutical applications, as well as agricultural and industrial applications. KEYWORDS: Turbinaria, Coumarins, Seaweeds, Phytochemicals and Turbinaria conodies