Effect of biological and chemical elicitors on the photosynthetic pigments and antioxidant activities of Withania somnifera

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Year 2015 Vol 4 Issue 2
Document Type : original article
¹Nitin Kumar Sharma, ²Mayank Pandey ³Veena Pande*
¹Department of Biotechnology, Kumaun university, Bhimtal Campus, Bhimtal. Uttarakhand - 263136, India
²Department of Biotechnology, Kumaun university, Bhimtal Campus, Bhimtal. Uttarakhand - 263136, India
³Department of Biotechnology, Kumaun university, Bhimtal Campus, Bhimtal. Uttarakhand - 263136, India
Abstract
Withania somnifera , popularly known as Aswagandha has an immense value in Ayurveda. In the present study we aimed to evaluate the Effect of different elicitors on the photosynthetic pigments and antioxidant activities of Withania somnifera

he seeds of W. somnifera were subjected to elicitors before sowing. Both the controlled as well as treated plants were subjected to various biochemical analysis using standard methods

Keywords
Aswagandha Withania somnifera elicitor antioxidants Pseudomonas fluorescens Trichoderma
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