 
        
						Ayman Y El-Khateeb
	
					    												
Egypt						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Phytochemical Analysis and Antifungal Activity of Fruit Leaves Extracts on the Mycelial Growth of Fungal Plant Pathogens 						
Author(s): Ayman Y El-Khateeb, Elsherbiny A Elsherbiny, Louis K Tadros, Safaa M Ali and Hassan B HamedAyman Y El-Khateeb, Elsherbiny A Elsherbiny, Louis K Tadros, Safaa M Ali and Hassan B Hamed             
						
												
				 Methanolic extracts of leaves of thompson seedless grape, flame seedless grape, zizyphus, pomegranate and fig were screened for their phytochemical constituents and also investigated for their antifungal activity in vitro against phytopathogenic fungi, Alternaria solani, Botrytis cinerea, Botrytis fabae, Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium solani. Phytochemical screening of crude methanolic extracts revealed the presence of terpenes, tannins, flavonoids, alkaloids, carbohydrate or glycosides, phenolic glycosides and resins in all extracts, while saponins were not detected from any extracts except zizyphus and fig. Zizyphus leaves had the highest concentration of total polyphenols and total flavonoids content which were 147.47 mgGAE/g and 16.35 mgQE/g, respectively. HPLC analysis identified twelve polyphenolic compounds; pyrogallic acid, gallic acid, protocatechuic, catechin, p-hydroxy ben.. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2157-7471.1000199