Total Phenolic Content, Antioxidant, and Antibacterial Activity of Rumex crispus Grown Wild in Turkey

Abstract

In the current study, we evaluated total phenolic content, antioxidant activity (by using β-carotene bleaching assay), and antibacterial activity of aqueous and methanol extracts of the aerial part of the Rumex crispus L. (Polygonaceae) naturally grown in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The aerial part of the plant had high total phenolic content (56.31 µg/mg DW). The antioxidant activity of aqueous and methanol extracts of the aerial part of R. crispus L., BHA, and BHT were found to be 92.35%, 95.49%, 98.16%, and 96.66%, respectively. Although the antioxidant activity of the aqueous and methanol extracts of R. crispus was lower than that of the BHA and BHT, the difference between these was not statistically significant, p < 0.05. The methanol extract possessed strong antibacterial activity against Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas corrugate, Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, Salmonella typhimurium, Serratia liquefaciens, Vibrio cholerae, Yersinia frederiksenii, and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Therefore, the aerial part of R. crispus can be used as an effective and safe source of antioxidants and antibacterial agent.

Lipophilic antioxidants in edible weeds from agricultural areas

“…Wild plants are considered excellent sources of different health-promoting bioactive substances (Yıldırım et al, 2001;Coruh et al, 2007Coruh et al, , 2008Šircelj and Batič, 2007;Ercişli et al, 2008;Šircelj et al, 2010;Sanchez-Mata et al, 2012;Samancioglu et al, 2016). Defining the content of these substances is essential among other things to confirm or reject traditional beliefs of health promotion by wild plants.…”

Determination of antioxidant properties of Rumex crispus and Scrophularia canina subsp. bicolor

“…Phenolic compounds are among the major secondary metabolites in plants responsible for their antioxidant activity (12). Therefore, antioxidant activity of these plant species may be due to their phenolic composition.…”

“…Rumex crispus and some Scrophularia species contain phenolic compounds [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Phenolic compounds are among the major secondary metabolites in plants responsible for their antioxidant activity (12).…”

Phytochemical Investigation and In Vitro Antibacterial Evaluation on Root Extracts of Rumex abyssinicus

“…These biologically important secondary metabolites play a crucial role in meeting this demand through the continued investigation of the world's biodiversity, much of which remains unexplored. Development of several new and highly specific in vitro bioassay techniques, chromatographic methods, and spectroscopic techniques, especially nuclear magnetic resonance, have made it much easier to screen, isolate, and identify potential drugs [24][25][26][27].…”