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. 2020 Oct 8;11:561248. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.561248

Table 8.

Antifungal activity of Terminalia sp. against pathogenic fungi.

Plant species/part Extraction Procedure Pathogenic fungi Antifungal activity Reference
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. bark Ethanol extraction A. flavus IZ = 7 mm (Saivaraj and Chandramohan, 2018)
Ethanol extraction C. albicans IZ = 15 mm (Debnath et al., 2013)
Ethanol extraction C. glabrata IZ = 20 mm
Ethanol extraction C. krusei IZ = 20 mm
Ethanol extraction C. tropicalis IZ = 18 mm
Terminalia catappa L. bark Ethanol extraction/Methanol extraction F. oxysporum MIC = 0.025 mg/mL (Kouassi et al., 2019)
Terminalia catappa L. leaf Ethanol extraction C. albicans MIC = 0.25 mg/mL
Biofilm inhibition
(Gonçalves et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction C. glabrata MIC = 0.25 mg/mL
Biofilm inhibition
Ethanol extraction C. krusei MIC = 1.5 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction C. tropicalis MIC = 1.5 mg/mL
Terminalia chebula Retz. fruit Ethanol extraction C. albicans MIC = 0.25 mg/mL (Vidya et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction C. glabrata MIC = 0.25 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction C. tropicalis MIC = 0.050 mg/mL
Terminalia glaucescens Planch. ex Benth. stem Ethanol extraction A. flavus IZ = 12.0 mm (Adeeyo et al., 2018)
Ethanol extraction A. niger IZ = 11.0 mm
Ethanol extraction Candida sp. IZ = 11.0 mm
Terminalia ivorensis A.Chev. bark Ethanol extraction F. oxysporum MIC = 0.050 mg/mL (Kouassi et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction F. graminearum MIC = 0.025 mg/mL
Terminalia mantaly H. Perrier bark Ethanol extraction F. oxysporum MIC = 0.050 mg/mL (Kouassi et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction F. graminearum MIC = 0.025 mg/mL
Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels bark Methanol extraction C. albicans MIC = 0.039 mg/mL (Kuete et al., 2010)
Methanol extraction C. glabrata MIC = 0.078 mg/mL
Methanol extraction M. audouinii MIC = 0.019 mg/mL
Methanol extraction T. rubrum MIC = 0.039 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction F. oxysporum MIC = 0.050 mg/mL (Kouassi et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction F. graminearum MIC = 0.050 mg/mL

IZ, inhibition zone.