Antimicrobial activity of Cinnamomum impressicostatum and C. pubescens and bioassay-guided isolation of bioactive methyl-cinnamate

• Main Authors: Ali, N. A. M., Rahmani, Mawardi, Shaari, Khozirah, Ahmed Ali, Asem Mohamed, Ee, Gwendoline Cheng Lian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13159/1/Antimicrobial%20activity%20of%20Cinnamomum%20impressicostatum%20and%20C.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13159/; http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2010.101.106

The air dried barks of Cinnamomum impressicostatum and C. pubescens were separately and sequentially extracted with hexane, chloroform and methanol and assayed against five bacteria and four fungi by disc diffusion method. The hexane and chloroform extracts of the plants strongly suppressed the grow...