Aquatic Plants Pistia stratiotes L. and Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms: An Sustainable Ecofriendly Bioresources – A Review

Author(s)

Tyagi, T. R., Agarwal, M. H.

Author's Affiliation

Abstract

Aquatic plants have economic and environmental uses, depending on the natural characteristics. They proved to be the effective bioresources which are eco-friendly in nature. The floating aquatic hyper accumulating plants absorb or accumulate contaminants by their whole body. These commonly available economical plants have a lot of prophylactic and therapeutic properties for maintenance of good health and can also be exploited in the manufacture of drugs. The antimicrobial activity of the plant extracts and phytochemicals was evaluated with antibiotic susceptible and resistant microorganisms. Recently much attention has been paid to extracts and biologically active compounds isolated from plants species.

Keywords

Bioresources, Phytochemicals, Prophylactic, Phytoremediation, Eichhornia crassipes, Pistia Stratiotes

Cite This Article

Tyagi, T. R., & Agarwal, M. H. (2014). Aquatic Plants Pistia stratiotes L. and Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms: An Sustainable Ecofriendly Bioresources - A Review. International Journal for Pharmaceutical Research Scholars (IJPRS), 3(2), 540-550.