- Cleome viscosa, GC-MS analysis, phytochemical.
Abstract
The potential of an allelopathic plant to exert direct and indirect effects depends in large part on the chemistry of the plant and whether putative allelochemicals reach meaningful levels in the environment surrounding the plant. Cleome viscosa L. (Capparidaceae) (synonym: C. icosandra L.) is a weed distributed
throughout the tropics of the world and the plains of India Results on the qualitative analysis on the root, stem and leaves of C. viscosa showed that the presence of saponins and flavonoids in all their three organs. The presence of alkaloids was noticed only in Wagner's test not in the Mayor's and Dragendorff's test. GC-MS
results of whole plant of C.viscosa showed the presence 3-O-Methyl-d-glucose (73%), followed by Benzofuran,2,3-dihydro (9.844%) and : n-Hexadecanoic acid (4.707%) of the total 32 compounds.