P Rajasulochana
Bharath University, India
Title: Identification of antibacterial activity of red algae (Kappaphycus alvarezii)
Biography
Biography: P Rajasulochana
Abstract
Marine environment is rich source of bio-diversity. Algae are available in macro and micro level. These algae are available in various types like green algae, brown algae and red algae. One of the green algae is spirulina, rich source of proteins. In brown algae, padina species are important for different antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activity. Red algae, kappaphycus alvarezii have various applications like neutraceutical, pharmaceutical and bioactive related effects. This algae have a lot of bioactive compounds which shows different activites like antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activity. Samples were collected from rameshwaran region,tamilnadu ,india. during the month of june. The samples were air dried and sun shaded for seven days. Kappaphycus (red algae) seaweed species were tested for their antibacterial activities using disc diffusion method. The species have primary and secondary metabolites, both metabolites show antimicrobial activities against different pathogens. Many bromo-compounds are identified for antimicrobial activites. Pseudomaonas flouresences, staphylococcus aureus, vibriochloera and proteus mirabilis are collected from madras university, Chennai. We subjected kappaphycus alvaerezii sample to identify the antibacterial activity using disc diffusion method. This review states that the red algae species have antibacterial activity against different bacterial species.