SCREENING FOR THE TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT OF SELECTED MANGROVE SPECIES COLLECTED FROM SUNDARBAN MANGROVE FOREST

Authors

  • SAUROV SETT Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta.
  • SOUMYA KUNDU Dept. of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
  • ABHIJIT MITRA Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta.
  • ANINDITA BANERJEE Dept. of Microbiology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
  • ARUP KUMAR MITRA Dept. of Microbiology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

Keywords:

Total phenolic content, Folin’s Ciocalteau Reagent, Gallic Acid Equivalent, Avicennia alba, Aegialitis rotundifolia, Sundarbans.

Abstract

In this present research, acetone extracts of Avicennia alba and Aegialitis rotundifolia
were investigated for the estimation of their total phenolic content. The amount of total
phenol present was calculated by assaying it with Folin’s Ciocalteau Reagent and
spectrophotometric analysis. Gallic acid was taken as the standard compound and the
total phenolic content of each of the plant sample was expressed as mg/g Gallic acid
equivalent (GAE). The standard curve equation was found out to be
y=0.0597x+0.0198; R2 = 0.9536. The results showed that A. rotundifolia had higher
total phenolic content (53.23 mg/g GAE) than that of A. alba (42.147 mg/g GAE).Since
antioxidant property and total phenol content are directly related, these plant leaf
extracts could be used for various medicinal and agroeconomic development.

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31.03.2014

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SAUROV SETT, SOUMYA KUNDU, ABHIJIT MITRA, ANINDITA BANERJEE, & ARUP KUMAR MITRA. (2014). SCREENING FOR THE TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT OF SELECTED MANGROVE SPECIES COLLECTED FROM SUNDARBAN MANGROVE FOREST. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 5(1), 1157–1163. Retrieved from https://ijpbs.net/index.php/journal/article/view/3239

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Volume 5, Issue 1, 2014

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