Antifungal activity of some wild plant extracts against fungal pathogens

The antifungal activity and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of plant extracts in methanolic solvents such as soxhlet extract of plants traditionally used asmedicines were as Leaf extracts of five wild plants viz:, Lantana camara Linn., Oscimum basilicum Linn., Tribulus terrestris Linn., Withania somnifera Dunal., were evaluated against the Clinical pathogens Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus niger, Curvularia lunata and Candida albicans organisms were found to have maximum antifungal activity in soxhlet extracts, MIC value of 0.5 and 0.3mg/ml respectively. Soxhlet extracts of Lantana camara Linn., and Oscimum basilicum Linn., showed highest MIC value of 0.7 mg/ml against Aspergillus niger.