Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography
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Leaves of Vallisneria Finds Source to Anti Dermatitis: Enriching Wetland Ecosystem

Nabanita Chakraborty¹, Basudev Mandal^2* and Archan Kanti Das³

¹ICAR- Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) Monirampore, Barrackpore-700120, India

²Aquaculture Management and Technology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore-721102, India

³Reservoir and Wetland Fisheries Division, ICAR- Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) Monirampore, Barrackpore-700120, India

*Corresponding Author:

Basudev Mandal
Aquaculture Management and Technology
Vidyasagar University
Midnapore-721102, India
Tel: +9434185409
E-mail: bmandalamtvu@gmail.com

Received Date: September 16, 2015 Accepted Date: September 20, 2015 Published Date: October 10, 2015

Citation: Chakraborty N, Mandal B, Das AK (2015) Leaves of Vallisneria Finds Source to Anti Dermatitis: Enriching Wetland Ecosystem. J Ecosys Ecograph 5:169. doi:10.4172/2157-7625.1000169

Copyright: © 2015 Chakraborty N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The renaissances of phyto-medicines lead to a resolute search of potential medicinal plants worldwide. In this perspective, predominantly, terrestrial allelochemistry has been an imperative tool to evaluate the drug potentiality of a plant. However, in aquatic ecosphere, the pharmaceutical evaluation of the aquatic macrophytes is an emerging aspect. Our study seeks to explore the curative traits of the exotic macrophyte, Vallisneria spiralis L. (Hydrocharitaceae), a perennial stoloniferous species and a key ecological community in freshwater wetland ecosystem. It is commonly used as aquarium plant and inhabits both in lentic and lotic environment of tropical and sub-tropical regions worldwide. Being rapid colonizers of aquatic ecosystem, literature study states the leaves of the macrophyte can excrete special function groups that can absorb, filter and precipitate chemical compound of water and through the auxiliary function of the microorganism. Considering these significances, we have extracted the leaf leachates of Vallisneria in 80% ethanol which had been purified by solid-liquid extraction process and further crystallized and subjected to biochemical analysis viz; phenols, flavonoids and tannins followed by antioxidant scavenging and microbial screening. Further the isolated compound was subjected to Mass and Fourier Infra-red Spectrometry. Comprehensively, all the experimental assays infer that Vallisneria leaves contain bioactive compound with mol wt. m/z 359 structured with microbial growth inhibiting functional groups which were found fungicidal against Malassezia globosa - the dandruff causing dermatitis fungus.

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