The genusAvicennia, a pioneer group of dominant mangrove plant species with potential medicinal values: a review

Abstract

The genus Avicennia comprises eight species of mangrove trees that occur in intertidal zones of estuaries and seabeds found in tropical and temperate regions spanning throughout the world. The plants belonging to the genus have both ecological and economic benefits. Different parts of the plants have ethnomedicinal applications for treatment of various diseases such as cancer, diabetes, malaria, rheumatism, asthma, small pox and ulcer. Pharmacological investigations have revealed antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory activities and so on in these plants. The genus possesses some unique metabolites of varied chemicals classes, which are responsible for their wide range of pharmacological activities. The presence of different bioactive compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, saponins, tannins, glycosides and terpenoids has been detected. Hence, there is a great scope to discover new biological active phytochemicals from different mangrove species of genus Avicennia. Although many research articles have been published on various pharmacological aspects of different plants of the genus, no comprehensive review is yet available pertaining to their ethnomedicinal uses, chemical constituents and pharmacological activities. The present article discusses the diversity as well as distribution of different species of genus Avicennia along with an in-depth coverage of their ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemical and pharmacological profiles. ARTICLE HISTORY

Antimicrobial activity of polyisoprenoids of sixteen mangrove species from North Sumatra, Indonesia

“…lanata extract. The polar extract of Avicennia has been reported to have antimicrobial, antidiarrhoeal, analgesic and antipyretic, antiulcer, antinociceptive, antiinflammatory, diuretic and neuropharmacological activities (Thatoi et al 2016). Avicennia marina had an IC 50 of 13.561 μg/mL indicating the antioxidant activity of its polyisoprenoid was of a weak category.…”

“…Avicennia officinalis is a mangrove and medicinal plant that is distributed in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam and southern Papua New Guinea (Thatoi et al 2016)). The extract of ethyl acetate from Av.…”

Transcriptome sequencing and identification of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases involved in the biosynthesis of maslinic acid and corosolic acid in <i>Avicennia marina</i>

“…The gray mangrove, Avicennia marina (Acanthaceae) is widely distributed from coastal East Africa to the western Pacific and from northern New Zealand to Japan (Arnaud-Haond et al 2006). Different parts of A. marina, including the leaf, bark, stem, and seeds, have traditional medicinal uses worldwide in the treatment of various diseases, such as rheumatism, small pox, and ulcers, by the local communities inhabiting the mangrove forests (Bandaranayake 1998(Bandaranayake , 2002Thatoi et al 2016).…”

Antibacterial Activity as Inhibitors Pathogen Bacterial on Pond Shrimp of Extract Marine Biota Collected From Maspari Island, South Sumatera, Indonesia

“…is known to produce antibacterial compounds for fish and human pathogenic bacteria such as Proteus sp., P. florescence, Flavobacterium sp., K. oxytoca, V. parahaemolyticus, P. aeruginosa, B. subtilis, K. pneumonia, S. aureus and E. coli (Umashankari et al, 2012;Arunprabu et al, 2016;Powar and Gaikwad, 2013;Joel and Bhimba, 2010). While Avicennia sp are known to have resistance to bacteria such as Enterococcus faecium, S. pneumoniae, K. pneumoniae, S. aureus, Vibrio harveyi, Shigella flexneri and S. aureus (Behbahani et al, 2018;Thatoi et al, 2016).…”