Antibacterial activity of seed extracts of commercial and wild lathyrus species

Turkish Journal of Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-169

  Khan, Noor Afshan ^a   Quereshi, Sadaf ^a   Pandey, Akhilesh ^a   Srivastava, Ashutosh ^a  

^a RANI DURGAVATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Lathyrus aphaca; Lathyrus ratan; MBC; MIC

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LATHYRUS; LATHYRUS APHACA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 66749187745     PISSN: 13000152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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