Antifungal Activity of Jatropha curcas Pericarps and leaves Extracts

• Main Authors: Ishak, Nur Diyana, Jusoh, Ismail, Assim, Zaini
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: International Congress ofthe Malaysian Society for Microbiology 2011
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/905/1/Antifungal%20Activity.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/905/; http://www.mymicro.org/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Jatropha curcas usually have a variety of uses especially in traditional medicine such as to relieve pain and skin disease. The oil and aqueous extracts from all parts of plants have the potential to act as insecticide. The objectives of this study were to determine toxicity methanol extracts of J....