Medicinal smoke reduces airborne bacteria

Nautiyal, Chandra Shekhar; Chauhan, Puneet Singh; Nene, Yeshwant Laxman

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2007.08.038

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“…Both bergapten and bergaptol inhibited the growth of S. aureus, E. coli, Penicilium gluacum and paramecium (protozoa). Apart from the crude extracts and isolated components, fumes of the different parts of F. religiosa have shown excellent antimicrobial effect against several bacterial and fungal strains (Balaji and Kalyanasundaram, 2002;Nautiyal et al, 2007;Prabhu et al, 2009). Kusumoto et al (1995) studied the human immunodeficiency virus-I protease (HIV-1 PR) inhibitory activity of the aqueous and methanolic bark extracts of F. religiosa.…”

Section: Antimicrobial and Antiviral Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Ficus religiosa: A review

Singh

Goel

2011

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Section: Antimicrobial and Antiviral Activitiesmentioning

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Traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Ficus religiosa: A review

Singh

Goel

2011

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…Pure culture of NBRISRM was grown and maintained on nutrient broth (NB) or nutrient agar (NA) (HI-MEDIA Laboratories, Bombay, India) and in 30% glycerol stocks stored at -80°C. Identification of P. agglomerans SRM was based on 95 carbon source utilization pattern, using Biolog GN2 microtitre panels by fully automated Biolog Bacteria Identification system (Biolog Inc., Hayward, CA, USA) as described earlier by Nautiyal et al (2007). Biolog microlog GN release 6.01 Database used for identification of the P. agglomerans SRM showed closest homology with P. agglomerans with 99% probability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Identification of SRM was based on 95 carbon source utilization pattern using Biolog GN2 microtitre panels by fully automated Biolog bacteria identification system (Biolog Inc., Hayward, CA, USA) as described earlier by Nautiyal et al (2007). Further identification of SRM was based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis.…”

Section: Isolation and Identification Of P Agglomerans Nbrisrmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhizosphere competent Pantoea agglomerans enhances maize (Zea mays) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) growth, without altering the rhizosphere functional diversity

Mishra

Chauhan

Chaudhry

et al. 2011

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Plant growth promoting Pantoea agglomerans NBRISRM (NBRISRM) was able to produce 60.4 μg/ml indole acetic acid and solubilize 77.5 μg/ml tri-calcium phosphate under in vitro conditions. Addition of 2% NaCl (w/v) in the media induced the IAA production and phosphate solubilization by 11% and 7%, respectively. For evaluating the plant growth promotory effect of NBRISRM inoculation a micro plot trial was conducted using maize and chickpea as host plants. The results revealed significant increase in all growth parameters tested in NBRISRM inoculated maize and chickpea plants, which were further confirmed by higher macronutrients (N, P and K) accumulation as compared to un-inoculated controls. Throughout the growing season of maize and chickpea, rhizosphere population of NBRISRM were in the range 10(7)-10(8) CFU/g soil and competing with 10(7)-10(9) CFU/g soil with heterogeneous bacterial population. Functional richness, diversity, and evenness were found significantly higher in maize rhizosphere as compared to chickpea, whereas NBRISRM inoculation were not able to change it, in both crops as compared to their un-inoculated control. To the best of our knowledge this is first report where we demonstrated the effect of P. agglomerans strain for improving maize and chickpea growth without altering the functional diversity.

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“…Efficacy ranged from minimal antimicrobial activity (Heteropyxis natalensis with Bacillus cereus) to enhanced activity where the antimicrobial effect is more than 60 times greater (Pellaea calomelanos with Cryptococcus neoformans) in the inhalation extract. A study undertaken by Nautiyal et al (2007) also showed the variation in antimicrobial activity when pathogens were exposed to the medicinal smoke from a mixture of odoriferous and medicinal herbs. In this study 17 of the 28 pathogens were completely eliminated after 12 h exposure to medicinal smoke.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%