“…Because of the production of varied types of bioactive compounds, use of mangroves as potent source of antimicrobials (Beula et al, 2012), insecticides (Suresh et al, 2017), antidiabetic (Nabeel et al, 2010), anticancer (Eswaraiaha et al, 2019), and antioxidants (Banerjee et al, 2008;Wangensteen et al, 2009) have been reported. Among the global mangroves, Suaeda species of Chenopodiaceae family occupies a special position and are known to be the producers of antibacterial (Patra et al, 2009;Muthazhagan et al, 2014;Nayak et al, 2018), antifungal (Boughalleb et al, 2009), mosquitocidal (Suresh et al, 2017), anticancer (Oueslati et al, 2012), hepatoprotective (Ravikumar et al, 2011), phytotoxic (Ali et al, 2014;Khan et al, 2018), diuretic (Kakrani and Saluja, 2001) and antioxidant (Oueslati et al, 2012) compounds.…”