Formulation and evaluation of herbal fungicide:A boon for safer soil diversity and fertility

Abstract :

The plants Ipomoea obscura, Clerodendrum inerme, Acalypha fruticosa were collected, authenticated and extracted with ethanol. The ethanolic extracts of these plants were subjected to bioassay-guided fractionation. The antibacterial activity was evaluated for the various extracted fractions of the plants against two gram positive and two gram negative bacteria using disc diffusion method and the zone of inhibition for various bacterial strains is reported.