Antioxidant and bioautography of medicinal plants Eugenia jambolana and Asparagus racemosus

Medicinal plants represent a rich source of antimicrobial agents. Plants are used medicinally as a source of important drugs. The present work deals with antioxidant activity and bioautography of plant extracts viz., Eugenia jambolana and Asparagus racemosus. They showed the antioxidant activity. The inhibition of growth on bioautographic TLC plates against the test organisms was shown by Eugenia jambolana. The results suggest that all the plant extracts can serve as a potential source of pharmaceutically important bioactive compounds which could be useful in controlling the growth of various pathogenic bacteria.