Jyoti Chauhan, D.K. Jain and P.C. Pande
Department of Botany, Meerut College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract: Green plants synthesize and preserve a variety of biochemical products many of which are extractable and used as chemical feed stocks or as raw material for various scientific investigation. The present paper deals with the phytochemical screening of two plants of Solanaceae – Solanum nigrum Linn. and Datura stramonium Linn. Studies were carried out to explore the active constituents of leaves of both the plants which are very significant in Drug development and widely used in the traditional and folk medicines. Many plants from the Solanaceae family are considered as medicinal plants.
Keywords: Phytochemical, Solanum nigrum Linn., Datura stramonium Linn., Medicinal plants
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