• Sibangini Misra

Neem plant extract is one of the most important plant-derived extracts which is used as an herbal remedy and as a source of many therapeutic agents. The present paper deals with the effects of neem leaf extracts on fungal growth on bread sample. The efficacy of neem leaf extract was evaluated by treating the bread sample with raw extract, boiled extract and with a combination of both boiled and raw extract. Raw neem leaf extract was found to inhibit the growth of vegetative mycelium only, while the boiled extract was found to be fungitoxic, inhibiting spore formation and causing death of fungus. The result obtained from the combination of raw and boiled extract was not uniform and the effect was random. There was some new fungal growth at some regions in the bread piece treated with the combinations of raw and boiled extract and some regions showed dead fungus similar to the ones seen in the bread sample treated with boiled extracts. Therefore, the piece treated with boiled leaf extract was found to be more effective against fungal growth.

Neem leaf, bread, raw neem leaf extract, boiled neem leaf extract, efficacy analysis

"EFFECT OF NEEM LEAF EXTRACT ON FUNGAL GROWTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.h141-h155, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206718.pdf

"EFFECT OF NEEM LEAF EXTRACT ON FUNGAL GROWTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. pph141-h155, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206718.pdf