• Madan Mohan Gorai
• Shanker Kumar Pandey

Trichosanthes anguina is an underutilized plant, the fruit of which is mainly consumed as a vegetable by rural dwellers most especially in western part of Africa. It is an annual climber belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. It is commonly called snake gourd, viper gourd, snake tomato or long tomato . The endocarp pulp when fully mature is sweet tasting, aromatic and deep red which does not go sour as quickly as the paste of S. lycopersicum, this account for the reason why it is employed as an alternative to the Solanaceous tomato. The plant is richly constituted with a series of secondary metabolites like flavonoids, carotenoids, alkaloids, phenolic acids which makes the plant harmacologically and therapeutically active. The preliminary phytochemical screening of leaf, stem, fruit wall and seed extracts of different solvents viz., aqueous, benzene, chloroform, methanol and petroleum ether of T. anguina have been carried out for the identification and analysis of biologically active phytochemicals by using standard procedures. The amount of total alkaloid in healthy leaves was found 0.84 mg/g and 0.67 mg/g in treated one. The percentage decrease in total sugar, biomass and alkaloids was found to the tune of 21.3%, 25% and 28.9% respectively under treatment. The biomass was reduced upto 16.6% and the total alkaloid was decreased upto 20.3%. The growth of a plant or its particular organ is an important endogenous process which results in variation in the concentration of plant metabolites. The percent decrease in treated leaves might be due to the alteration of organic and inorganic components by the treatment of colchicines.

Effect, Colchicine, Active principals, Photochemical Screening, T. anguina

"EFFECT OF COLCHICINE ON THE ACTIVE PRICIPALS OF TRICHOSANTHES ANGUINA L.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.207-210, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812631.pdf

"EFFECT OF COLCHICINE ON THE ACTIVE PRICIPALS OF TRICHOSANTHES ANGUINA L.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp207-210, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812631.pdf