@article{Sekaran Sridhar1*,Jebamalai Suresh Kumar1 and Sarangam Babu2_2010, title={Pharmacognostical and Antifungal Activity of Selected Seaweeds from Gulf of Mannar Region}, volume={2}, url={https://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/rrst/article/view/360}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: ";Arial Narrow";,";sans-serif";; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Abstract</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: ";Arial Narrow";,";sans-serif";;">The antifungal activities of six important seaweeds namely the green seaweed <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cladophora glomerata</em>, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ulva lactuca </em>and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ulva reticulata</em>, the red seaweed <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gracilaria corticata</em> and<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Kappaphycus alvarezii</em> and the brown seaweed <em>Sargassum wightii</em> were screened against fungal pathogens <em>Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatous, Saccharomyces cervisiae </em>and<em> Mucor indicus. </em>The zone of inhibition ranged between 56 - 8mm in aqueous extract and 56 – 4mm in methanolic extract. The maximum activity (56mm) was recorded from 200mg of aqueous extract of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ulva</em> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lactuca</em> against <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aspergillus flavus</em> and minimum (8mm) by <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gracilaria</em> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corticata</em> against <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mucor indicus</em> at 50 mg level whereas, the methanolic extract showed the maximum activity (56mm) was recorded from 200mg of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">U. lactuca</em> against <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aspergillus niger</em> and minimum (4mm) by 50 mg of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ulva</em> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reticulata</em> against <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aspergillus flavus.</em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in; tab-stops: center 2.75in right 5.5in left 6.25in;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 110%; font-family: ";Arial Narrow";,";sans-serif";;">Keywords</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 110%; font-family: ";Arial Narrow";,";sans-serif";;">: Seaweeds, Antifungal activity, Methanolic extract, Aqueous extract, Pharmacognosy </span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Recent Research in Science and Technology}, author={Sekaran Sridhar1*,Jebamalai Suresh Kumar1 and Sarangam Babu2, Pandurangan Aruna1, Periasamy Mansuya1,}, year={2010}, month={Oct.} }