Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques

Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Science, Wolkite University, wolkite, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Determination of Total Phenolic, Total Flavonoid and Antioxidant Activities of the Leaf Extracts of Capparis tomentosa (Gumero)
  Author(s): Habtamu Gedion Aynalem* and Melaku Belay Kitaw
  
  Capparis tomentosa is one the varieties of Capparis species commonly used traditional medicinal plants for various ailments like headache, pneumonia and malaria. The study was conducted to determine TPC, TFC and anti-oxidant activities of different solvent extracts of Capparis tomentosa. The results indicated that all extracts have reducing power of DPPH radical. Methanol and ethyl acetate leaf extracts of Capparis tomentosa have the highest total reducing power (90.38% and 82.193% respectively at concentration of 125 ppm for DPPH assay) and petroleum ether showed the lowest reducing power (0.392% at the lowest concentration 25 ppm) and for FRAP assay the same is true as DPPH assay; methanol extract has the highest reducing power (85.574%) next to the standard ascorbic acid (89.866%) at a concentration of 200 ppm and the lowest was petroleum ether e.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2155-9821.2023.13.572

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