Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 6 | Issue 1
An account of Antioxidant Potential in Pteridophytes: A Biochemical Perspective
DOI:10.30954/2319-5169.01.2018.3
Abstract:
Plants manufacture a remarkably diverse variety of over 50,000 low molecular mass natural compounds also referred as secondary metabolites. The Pteridophytes in the Plantae are ancient yet modern representatives of the plant world. In addition to the unique and specific active biochemical ingredients pteridophytic plants houses innumerable minerals, vitamins, alkaloids, saponins, phenols, tannins, phytosterols, triterpenes and terpenoids in a substantial amount. Pteridophytes are one of the most important plant groups that enrich in Antioxidants and have been used significantly and successfully in folk medicine for several years. Antioxidants are molecular substances that prevent various cellular target molecules from oxidative damage. Pteridophytic antioxidants can neutralize the effect of AOS which are one of the several factors involved in various physiological malfunctioning of living organisms. Various pharmaceuticals formulations and bioinformatic approaches for drug designing in respect of chemical ligand binding and bioactivity assay in vitro as well as in vivo with reference to these antioxidants can relive disorders whose medicines are not yet available such as cancer. The antioxidant composition Pteridophytic generas also can aid in solving the phylogenetic puzzle and its chemotaxonomic approaches could also contribute in a new and revised system of Plant classification.
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