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Estimation of Flavonoid Content of Plant Datura Metel

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dc.contributor.author Rajadurai, P.
dc.contributor.author Ramaiah, S.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-02-01T05:28:39Z
dc.date.available 2017-02-01T05:28:39Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Rajadurai, P. and Ramaiah, S. 2016. Estimation of Flavonoid Content of Plant Datura Metel. In proceedings of the 17th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2016, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 245. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/16177
dc.description.abstract Flavonoids are a class of plant secondary metabolites. Flavonoids were referred to as Vitamin P from the mid-1930s to early 50s, but the term has since fallen out of use. Since D. metel is as rejuvenating herb this study was planned to estimate the flavonoid content in D. metel because flavonoids also determine the antioxidant capacity of the plant. The plant was obtained from Government herbal garden, Navakkiri, Puththur, Jaffna and taxonomically authenticated. The collected plants were washed thoroughly in running tap water and it was separated into leaf, flower, stem, and root immediately. Then they were dried in sun shade and were powdered. Then powders were stored in air tight dry labeled plastic containers. Cold and hot water extract were prepared form the powders. The concentration of flavonoids in various plant part extracts of the D. metel was determined by aluminum chloride method using spectrophotometry and the flavonoid content expressed as mg of tannic acid equivalent/ gm of DW. The assay was performed in duplicates and data presented as mean ± SD. One percent tannic acid used as standard. The concentration of flavonoids in cold and hot water extracts of different parts ranged from 358 ± 23.38 to 495.68 ± 43.63 μmol/g DW and from 444.70 ± 43.63 to 562.50 ± 71.97 μmol/g DW respectively. Both cold and hot water extracts of flower had the highest flavonoid concentration 495.68 ± 75.73, 562.5 ± 71.97 μmol/g DW respectively. The lowest flavonoid concentration was found in the root. According to the study both cold and hot water extract of flower were showed highest amount of flavonoid content. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Aluminum chloride en_US
dc.subject Tannic acid en_US
dc.subject Spectrophotometry en_US
dc.subject Flavonoid en_US
dc.subject D. metel en_US
dc.title Estimation of Flavonoid Content of Plant Datura Metel en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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