
Salma Hassan
Selangor, MalaysiaTitle: Evaluating the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of exo and endo extracts of Pleurotus florida (white oyster mushroom)
Abstract
Pleurotus (oyster mushroom) species have been
utilized by human cultures everywhere on the
world for their dietary benefit, medicinal
properties, and other beneficial impacts. White
oyster mushroom (Pleurotus florida) is an edible
mushroom that gained popularity due to its
nutritional values, low production cost and ease of
cultivation. In this study, the antioxidant activities
were evaluated using Folin-Ciocalteu method,
DPPH radical scavenging activity and ferric
reducing antioxidant power and the antimicrobial
activities were evaluated using agar disk-diffusion
method. Out of the 10 concentrations tested for
the antioxidant properties, concentration of
1mg/ml of the IPS extract showed the higher total
phenolic content and ferric reducing antioxidant
power, while for the DPPH radical scavenging
activity concentration of 0.2mg/ml of IPS extract
showed the highest scavenging activity. For the
antimicrobial evaluation, out of the 6
concentrations tested, there was no antimicrobial
activity against S.aureus, P. aeruginosa and E.coli
for all. In conclusion, Pleurotus florida mushroom
has shown no antimicrobial effects with water as
the solvent. On the other hand, it has shown
intermediate antioxidant effects. Further studies
should be done with different solvents to evaluate
the effects of Pleurotus florida mushroom.
Biography
Salma Sherif has completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the age of 23 years from University of Cyberjaya, Malaysia. She has graduated on the 26th of March 2022. She was invited as an oral speaker at the 1st Makassar International Conference in Pharmaceutical Science on the 26th of September 2021 to present about her research topic “Evaluating the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of exo and endo extracts of Pleurotus florida (white oyster mushroom)”. She is currently working as a freelancer in data entry, data extraction and translation.