Antioxidant and Gcms Analysis of Lesser Known Species of Citrus
Mousikha Lala1,2*; Soumita Bhattacharjee1 and Arnab Sen1
1Molecular Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling-734013 (India) 2Genetics Laboratory, Department of Botany, ABN Seal College, Cooch Behar-736101 (India) Arnab Sen- Professor in Botany, Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling-734013 (India) arnab.yahoo@hotmail.com, 9434307487 1,2*Mousikha Lala- Assistant professor in Botany, Department of Botany, ABN Seal College, Cooch Behar-736101 (India) mousikhalala10@gmail.com, 8967005898 1Soumita Bhattacharjee- Faculty of Centre for Innovative Studies, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling-734013, (India) soumita91793@gmail.com, 9641683956
ABSTRACT
There is always an growing demand of natural remedies from natural sources which can be a replacement of the synthetic therapeutic drugs and lessen their side effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate the antioxidant potential and the active phytocomponents of Citrus unshiu which might be responsible for its antioxidant effect. At higher concentration (200μg/ml) the leaf extract of C. unshiu showed 76.58% of inhibition. After GC-MS analysis total twenty phytocompounds were detected most of which showed antioxidant, antiinflammatory, antithyroid activity and so on. Overall, the present study suggested that the crude leaf extract of C. unshiu could be used as a promising antioxidant and its phytocompounds has several beneficial effects.