ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Plant Based Antimicrobials Against Multi
Drug Resistant Bacterial Strains (MDRS)
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Department of Zoology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan
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Institute of Chemistry, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan, Pakistan
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Azerbaijan State Agrarian University, Faculty of veterinary medicine, Ganja, Azerbaijan
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Department of Botany, Islamia College Peshawar, 25120 Peshawar, Pakistan
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Biology Laboratory, University Public School, University of Peshawar, 25120 Peshawar, Pakistan
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Quaid-i-Azam University, Department of Plant Sciences, Islamabad, PK 45320
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Department of Botany, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
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Department of Crop and Animal Production, Sason Vocational School, Batman University, Batman 72060, Turkey
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Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, (UCAS), Beijing 100049, China
Submission date: 2023-11-13
Final revision date: 2024-04-26
Acceptance date: 2024-06-27
Online publication date: 2024-11-04
Corresponding author
Alevcan Kaplan
Department of Crop and Animal Production, Sason Vocational School, Batman University, Batman 72060, Turkey
Majid Iqbal
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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ABSTRACT
Plants are vital for life due to their various constituents, comprised of various parts like roots,
stems, and leaves. Herbal medicines have been known to man for centuries. The study was designed
to check and compare the antibacterial activity of onion (Allium cepa L.), neem (Azadirachta indica
A. Juss.), and bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) methanolic extracts against four bacterial strains,
Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus. All bacterial strains
were cultured on nutritional agar plates. Three parameters were used in this research: concentrations,
pH, and temperature. The five concentrations, 50 mg/mL, 70 mg/mL, 90 mg/mL, 110 mg/mL, and
130mg/mL were applied to all bacterial strains. At 110mg/mL, the methanolic extract of neem and bitter
gourd applied to E.coli and S. aureus showed the largest zone of inhibition of 1.8 mm. The minimum
inhibitory concentration (MIC) for Bacillus subtilis was 50 mg/mL when onion methanolic extract was
applied. Onion and neem extract was found effective at 100 0C against E.coli and B. subtilis, while bitter
gourd controls the growth of E.coli at 60 0C. The results of variable pH revealed that onion and bitter
gourd were effective at pH 7 against B. subtilis, while neem was effective against S. aureus at pH 2. The results of the present study suggest that all onion, neem, and bitter gourd extracts have compounds
containing antibacterial properties that can potentially be useful to control food-borne pathogens. By
comparing the extracts of selected plants, neem was found to be more effective than onion and bitter
gourd.