Mimosa Pudica Case Study

Maize (Zea mays Linn.) belongs to the Andropogoneae grass tribe of the family Gramineae. The grass originated 55-70 million years ago then subsequently diversified to include all the major cereal crop species in addition to nearly 10,000 non-domesticated relatives (Pechanova and Pechan , 2015). Maize is one of the most grown crop in the world which is highly recognized for its nutritional properties and as a source material for industrial purposes.
In the Philippines, maize is the second most important crop next to their staple food which is rice, along with one third of Filipino farmers that depends on maize as an essential source of their livelihood. In times of rice scarcity, white maize serves as substitute for their staple food. Yellow
pudica have been made. In the study of Abriani et al. (2015) entitled “THE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF MIMOSA PUDICA L.”, the antimicrobial activity of Mimosa pudica was tested with various extracts such as petroleum ether, ethylacetate, acetone and aqueous against various human pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeurogiosa, Lactobacillus, Salmonellatyphi and Staphylococcus aureus also with plant pathogenic fungus such as Pestalotia foedians, Fusarium oxysporum and Paecilomycesvariotii at different concentrations. Out of the selected various solvent extracts, in bacterial study, acetone extract showed a maximum zone of inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus. In fungal study, ethyl acetate extract showed maximum zone of inhibition against Fusarium
(2014), the antimicrobial activities of 50% methanolic crude extracts of Mimosa pudica L were evaluated against different bacteria by agar well diffusion method & MIC determination. The crude extract showed a broad spectrum of antibacterial activities by inhibiting the respective bacteria in Agar well diffusion assay. Inhibitory zone of 17.25 mm to 20 mm diameter for Mimosa pudica extracts were observed against selected microorganism. The present study supports the immense medicinal properties of Mimosa pudica. Similarly, in the study of Policegoudra (2007), leaves of some medicinal plants including Achyranthes aspera, Artemisia parviflora, Azadirachta indica, Calotropis gigantean, Lawsonia inermis, Mimosa pudica, Ixora coccinea, Parthenium hysterophorus and Chromolaena odorata were examined for antimicrobial activity against various bacteria in different solvents, and they show their maximum inhibition against E. coli, S. aureus, X. vesicatoria. Chloroform extract of Curcuma amada was effective against Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis