Techniques for evaluation of medicinal plant products as antimicrobial agents: Current methods and future trends

By Kuntal Das, R. Tiwari, D. Shrivastava. 2010

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Phytochemical screening and Extraction: A Review (2011, methodology): “Some researchers however centrifuged the filtrate for clarification of the extract [4].”
Preparation of Medicinal Plants: Basic Extraction and Fractionation Procedures for Experimental Purposes (2020, methodology): “Various factors enumerated below should be taken into consideration when choosing a solvent of extraction.[3,9,15] (i) Selectivity.”
Efficacy of plant extracts in controlling wheat leaf rust disease caused by Puccinia triticina (2017, background): “These groups of compounds show antimicrobial effect and serve as plant defense mechanisms against pathogenic microorganisms [23].”
Perspectives and Challenges for Sustainable Management of Fungal Diseases of Mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. radiata]: A Review (2018, background): “…phenols (carvacrol, eugenol, and thymol), phenolic acids, quinones, flavones, flavonoids, flavonols, tannins and coumarins (Cowan, 1999), these groups of compounds show fungicidal effect and serves as plant defense mechanisms against fungal pathogens (Slusarenko et al., 2008; Das et al., 2010).”
Efficacy of plant extracts in plant disease management (2012, background): “Thousands of phyto chemicals which have inhibitory effects on all types of microorganisms in vitro should be subjected in vivo testing to evaluate the efficacy in controlling the incidence of diseases in crops, plants, and humans [2].”