Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Biology - Botany, course: Plant studies, language: English, comment: The book covers the topics on antimicrobial, biochemical and image analysis in Mirabilis jalapa., abstract: Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years and an impressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, many based on their use in traditional medicine. Various medicinal plants have been used for years in daily life to treat disease all over the world. They have been used as a source of medicine. The widespread use of...

Mirabilis jalapa Linn belongs to the family Nyctaginaceae and is a large herbaceous plant grown in gardens throughout India. Mirabilis jalapa Linn is widely used in conventional medicine in many parts of the world for the treatment of various diseases viz. virus inhibitory activity, anti-tumor activity, etc. Very few reports are available on the architecture of pollen grains, image analysis, Antimicrobial activity, pharmacognostic and phytochemical nature of Mirabilis jalapa Linn. The present project contains the following objectives: 1. Staining of pollen grain and observation of meiotic...