Plants and microbes compete for survival and their organized interactions play a vital role in adapting to stress environments. Microbes have a positive impact on transplanting performance of in vitro propagated plantlets. The present study aims at survival development of micropropagated Pogostemon mollis through microbial inoculation. The leaf and stem explants on MS medium with different concentrations and combinations of BAP, Kn, NAA, IAA and IBA used for the establishment of plantlet. The survival rate of plantlets was successfully increased from 71% to about 70.21% by the inoculation of Rhizophagus fasciculatus and Bacillus megaterium. This inoculation also clearly increases the growth, biomass and chlorophyll of in vitro derived platelets. The present protocol emphasizes the need of bio-hardening on micropropagated plants, particularly the mycorrhization along with phosphobacteria.
The present study is aimed to investigate the antipyretic activity of methanolic leaf extract of Canarium strictum in wistar albino mice. Pyrexia was induced in mice by Brewer’s yeast suspension. The animals were divided in to 5 groups, 6 of each as following Group I received normal saline water (control); Group II received standard paracetamol 150 mg/kg; Group III, IV & V received methanolic leaf extract of C. strictum at doses 100, 200 & 300 mg/kg respectively. In all experiments, rats were orally administered. The temperature of all the mice in each group was measured at the start of study, at 18 h after yeast injection and every hourly for 4 h thereafter. The mean temperature was found out for each group and was compared with the control group and standard drug group. The C. strictum leaf extract at doses 200 and 300 mg/kg significantly reduced the body temperature on yeast induced pyrexia and was comparable with standard.
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