World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

EVALUTION OF THE PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND THE ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF SUAEDA MONOICA LEAVES

Sarah Mohammed Khair*, Adam Musa Mohamed, Somaya Khider and Omer Abdullah Ahmed Hamdi

ABSTRACT

Halophytic plants are more susceptible to oxidative stress and damage due to high contents of salt and minerals inside these plants. Therefore, adaptation mechanism towards these conditions includes the biosynthesis of singnificant biomass of secondary metabolites such as phenolics , alkaloids…etc .Plants growing in most of North African countries, were taken as example for estimating the phenolic and flavonoids contents as well as antioxidant evaluation in order to understand the effect of habitat of these plant imitation. Suaeda monoica (Chenopodiaceace), is a Halophytic plants growing widley on coastal areas of port Sudan has been reported as a high antioxidant with various phytoconstituents in other countries before the present work proved that the species in Sudan contain 13 phytoconstituents and has a high DPPH radical scavenging accompanied with them.

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