Shazeen Khan and Vasant Kadam
P.G. Dept. of Botany and Research Centre, M.V.P.Samajs, K.T.H.M.College, Nashik, Maharashtra India
drvbkadam@yahoo.com/vasantpranali7916@gmail.com
Received: Feb 19, 2021 / Revised: Mar 19, 2021/ Accepted: Mar 29, 2021
Abstract
Medicinal plants are used by people for a long time to cure various diseases. The plants Adansonia digitata and Bombax ceiba belonging to the family Bombacaceae were selected for the present study. Estimation of protein and total amino acid content of leaf, stem, and bark of these plants was estimated in different seasons. The protein content of Adansonia digitata showed increasing order bark < stem< leaves and that of Bombax ceiba was stem< bark<leaf in increasing order. The range of amino acid content for both plants Adansonia digitata and Bombax ceiba was in the increasing order bark< stem< leaf.
Keywords Medicinal plants, Adansonia digitata, Bombax ceiba, protein, an amino acid
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Khan, S. and Kadam, V. (2021). Estimation of protein and amino acid content of Adansonia digitata and Bombax ceiba. Science Archives, Vol. 2 (1), 65-67 http://dx.doi.org/10.47587/SA.2021.2111
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