| Abstrakt: |
Plant showed nutritional and therapeutic benefits including antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, hypolipidemic, cardiovascular, central nervous, respiratory, immunological, anti-inflammatory, analgesic antipyretic and many other pharmacological effects. Phytochemical analysis showed that the root of Daucuscarota contained alkaloids, carbohydrates, chlorogenic acid, flavonoids, phenols, essential oil, terpenoid and coumarin. The objectives of this study were analysis of the secondary metabolite products using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic profile and evaluation of its anti-microbial activity. In the current study, the anti-microbial activity of Daucus carota methanolic extract was evaluated by determining the zone of inhibition against nine bacteria and eight fungi and yeast. Maximum zone formation was against Staph aureus (4.17±0.15)and very highly active against Aspergillus flavus (4.59±0.16). The FTIR analysis of Daucus carota proved the presence of alkyl halides, Alkenes, Aromatic and Amide which shows major peaks at 667.37, 873.75, 921.97, 1026.13, 1139.93, 1234.44, 1317.38, 1379.10, 1415.75, 1519.91, 1598.99, 1740.72, 2852.72, 2922.16, 3223.05, and 3265.49. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
