Research Article

Phytotoxic and Cytotoxic potential of leaf, stem and root of Sageretia thea (Osbeck) M.C. Johnston

Sumaira Shah* Siraj ud Din, Rehman Ullah

Department of Botany,University of Peshawar, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author Email: Sunehra23@gmail.com

Accepted 5 May, 2013

Abstract

The phytotoxic and cytotoxic potential of leaf, stem and root of Sageretia thea carried out to check their weedicidal and anti cancer potential against lemna minor and brine shrimps respectively. The ethanolic extract of stem, root and n-hexane extract of leaf showed significant phytotoxicity while the n-hexane extract of stem, root showed low phytotoxicity. In cytotoxic activity the ethanol and aqueous extracts of root showed significant mortality while n-hexane showed low mortality. The ethanol extract of stem showed good lethality while aqueous and n-hexane extract showed poor cytotoxicity. Similar results also recorded for the leaf.

Keywords: Phytotoxic, Cytotoxic, Sageretia thea