Table 7.

Summary of the in vitro antimicrobial potentials of polyphenol-rich lentils.

Polyphenol-Rich Lentils	Model	Dose and Route of Administration	Negative Control	Investigation	Results	Reference
Flavonoids and lectins	Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	0.1–1 mL	-	Assay of agar well diffusion method	Antibacterial activity	[92]
Flavonoids	Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli	250 mg/mL	-	Assay of disc diffusion method	Antibacterial activity	[90]
Ellagic acid, lupeol and leucodelphinidin	Bacillus cereus, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and E. coli	250 mg/mL	-	Assay of disc diffusion method	Antibacterial activity	[93]
Flavonoids and proteins	Aspergillus niger	-	-	47-residue, plant defensin was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel filtration, chromatography and RP-HPLC; complete amino acid sequence, RT-PCR, cloning and cDNA sequence were performed	Antifungal activity	[21,91]
Flavonoids and proteins	Fusarium oxysporum	36 µM	-	Mycelial growth in Mycosphaerella arachidicola	Antifungal activity	[94]
Flavonoids, lentil lectin and the diterpene ester	Human peripheral blood mononuclear leucocytes. murine splenocytes and white Swiss inbred C67B1/6 mice	600 µg/mL	Concanavalin A	Assay of interferon-γ production	Antiviral activity	[95,96]

pv.: pathovar; RP-HPLC: reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography.