Vol.
: 76-85.
January 2021 DOI: https://doi.
org/10.
23960/jsl1976-85 Jurnal Sylva Lestari P-ISSN: 2339-0913
E-ISSN: 2549-5747
Journal homepage: https://jurnal.
id/index.
php/JHT Full Length Research Article Antimicrobial Activity of Ten Extractives from Toba.
North Sumatra and Mt.
Merapi National Park Regions.
Indonesia Maya Ismayati*.
Deni Zulfiana.
Setiawan Khoirul Himmi.
Didi Tarmadi.
Dita Meisyara.
Apriwi Zulfitri.
Titik Kartika Research Center for Biomaterials.
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI).
Jl.
Raya Bogor Km.
46 Cibinong.
Bogor, 16911.
Jawa Barat.
Indonesia Corresponding author.
E-mail address: maya_ismayati@biomaterial.
ARTICLE HISTORY:
Received: 7 October 2020 Peer review completed: 5 January 2021 Received in revised form: 8 January 2021 Accepted: 11 January 2021 KEYWORDS:
Antimicrobial plants Indigenous knowledge Toba-North Sumatra Mt.
Merapi A 2021 The Author.
Published by Department of Forestry.
Faculty of Agriculture.
University of Lampung in collaboration with Indonesia Network for Agroforestry Education (INAFE).
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license:
https://creativecommons.
org/licenses/bync/4.
ABSTRACT
Investigating beneficial chemical compounds of plant extracts is one of the ways to prevent biodiversity loss.
This study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of indigenous plant extracts from Toba.
North Sumatra, and Mt.
Merapi National Park regions against Escherichia coli.
Bacillus subtilis.
Salmonella typhi.
Staphylococcus aureus.
Candida albicans, and Candida tropicalis by calculating the zone of microbial growth inhibition.
Among the plant extracts.
T5 that identified as Toona sinensis showed the highest microbial inhibition to the growth of C.
typhi, and coli with the diameter growth of approximately 2.
00, 1.
80, 1.
33, and 33 cm, respectively.
Based on those results.
sinensis was then subsequently fractionated using n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol.
The resulted fractions also were evaluated for antimicrobial All fractions have shown activity in inhibiting the growth of the microbes at 1% concentration.
However, each fraction showed growth inhibition against certain microbes.
The n-hexane fraction showed the greatest inhibitory activity for E.
coli and S.
ethyl acetate fraction for subtilis and C.
and methanol fraction for E.
coli and S.
The results revealed that T.
sinensis plant extract has great potential as an antimicrobial agent.
Further investigation is needed to observe the mode of antimicrobial action of fractionated crude extracts of T.
Sinensis.
The exploring potency of Indonesian biodiversity opened up a new way for the utilization of plants for economic development and conservation.
Introduction Forest is vital for life because it serves as the habitat of the vast diversity of organisms.
The biodiversity of forests is also economically important for humans, mostly for wood products such as timber, pulp, paper, and rubber.
In addition, forest plant extracts have hidden medicinal effects that have not been well explored.
However, in recent years, biodiversity loss is threatening forest areas because of climate change and global warming.
Global warming affects evapotranspiration in the dry area leads to severe drought (Trenberth et al.
Forest is prone to fire when drought is occurred, causing damage to seedlings, sprouts, young and old trees.
The recovery and rehabilitation process will be difficult, resulting in biodiversity loss (Nasi et al.
Ismayati et al.
Jurnal Sylva Lestari 9.
: 76-85 Exploring forest plants and investigating the benefit of chemical compounds of plant extracts is one of the ways to prevent biodiversity loss.
Plant extracts are reported to have medicinal effects such as antioxidant (Attanayake et al.
, antibacterial (Ogbole et al.
, antifungal (Giordani et al.
, and anticancer (Sammar et al.
It also has been used as therapeutic drugs for degenerative diseases such as diabetes (Deo et al.
and cardiovascular (Qadir et al.
Advanced research in the pharmaceutical industry shifts peopleAos perspectives on medicinal plants from unregulated traditional usage to phytopharmaceutical which is qualitatively and quantitatively standardized (Bhatt 2.
This leads to increasing demands for plant-based Knowledge of the benefit of ethnobotanical plants .
s medicinal, antimicrobial, and bioinsecticid.
is expected to increase peopleAos awareness to conserve the forests.
People will begin to appreciate forests by using them as medicinal plant sources and will implement them as local culture.
Local culture will encourage the creation of a legal system to prevent anything that damages the forests, such as wildfire or human activities.
Therefore, it will help in avoiding biodiversity loss.
In line with the Indonesia Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (IBSAP) program, the exploration of plant extract that has the potential as bio-insecticides based on the local wisdom of the community have been conducted in Toba-North Sumatra (Meisyara et al.
and Turgo Forest Area.
Mt.
Merapi National Park.
Java.
In this study, the collected plants in the previous project were screened to discover another potential activity as an antimicrobial agent.
Materials and Methods In line with the Indonesia Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (IBSAP) program, the exploration of plant extract that has the potential as bio-insecticides based on the local wisdom of the community have been conducted in Toba-North Sumatra (Meisyara et al.
and Turgo Forest Area.
Mt.
Merapi National Park.
Java (Ismayati et al.
(Fig.
About 4 plant samples were collected from Mt.
Merapi, and 6 plant samples were collected from the Toba regions (Samosir Botanical Garden and Eden 100 Park Are.
All samples were extracted by maceration process to get methanol crude extract, and followed by a phytochemical test (Meisyara et al.
Fig.
Sampling location in Toba.
North Sumatra and Mt.
Merapi National Park.
Java.
Indonesia (Source: w.
Ismayati et al.
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: 76-85 Antimicrobial bioassay for 10 plant extracts was carried out against 6 microbial pathogens, including Escherichia coli.
Bacillus subtilis.
Salmonella typhi.
Staphylococcus aureus .
, and Candida albicans.
Candida tropicalis .
using the disc diffusion method.
Microbial pathogenic agar plates were made by mixing 1% of each bacterial and yeast inoculum with a density of about 10-7 cfu/ml, respectively, with 20 ml molten agar media .
utrient agar for bacteria and potato dextrose agar for yeas.
and then pour it into petri dishes.
50 AAl plant extract .
,000 ppm in methano.
was injected onto a paper disc .
8 c.
and placed on the microbial inoculated Methanol was used as a control.
The plates were then incubated at 25AC for 48 h.
Observation of microbial inhibition zone diameter .
lear zone formatio.
was carried out at 24 and 48 h.
The plant extract with the highest antimicrobial activity was fractioned by the gradient polarity of the solvent.
Ethyl acetate was chosen as the semi-polar solvent, and n-hexane was used for nonpolar solvent.
Each extract with concentration of 0.
8% and 1.
w/v were subjected into the same antimicrobial test following the aforementioned methods.
The effects of plant extractives treatment on the inhibition zone of pathogen microbial were statistically determined by analysis of variance (ANOVA), and samples showing significant differences were analyzed using DuncanAos post hoc test.
All analyses were performed using IBM SPSS version 2.
Results and Discussion Biodiversity plays a significant role in the development of the country.
In line with the objectives of the 2015Ae2020 IBSAP program, the exploration of biodiversity in the archipelago has a role in increasing peopleAos productivity and national competitiveness, and economic The results of this exploration are expected to be used as material for analysis in the management and utilization of sustainable biodiversity to achieve development targets.
From this exploration activity, 6 plant extracts from the Toba area and 4 plant extracts from the Merapi area were collected.
The plant extracts were identified and reported in previous studies (Ismayati et al.
Meisyara et al.
They are leaves and barks of kina (Cinchona pubescens Vah.
, leaf of kamadoh (Dendrocnide stimulans (L.
) Che.
, and keremi (Homalanthus populneus (Geisele.
Pa.
leaf of simar pahit-pahit (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.
) A.
Gra.
, imar huting-huting (Chromolaena odorata (L.
) R.
King & H.
Ro.
, pirdot (Saurauia bracteosa DC.
Ingul (Toona sinensi.
, haurese (Azadirachta indica A.
Jus.
, and bark of sikkam (Turpinia sphaerocarpa Hass.
The chemical content analysis of plant extracts has been carried out for the phytochemical test (Table .
Each plant extract showed various content of phytochemicals, although none of the extracts contain triterpenoid.
Variation in pathogen growth inhibition may be influenced by differences in the chemical content of the plant extract samples.
The results of the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts are shown in Fig.
The ANOVA indicated that all plant extracts showed antimicrobial activity against bacterial pathogens tested with various potencies.
sinensis (T.
extract at 10,000 ppm was found to be the most effective in suppressing all bacterial and yeast pathogenic growth tested in vitro.
In contrast, extract of keremi (Homalanthus populneus (Geisele.
Pa.
exhibited antibacterial activity only against S.
Other plant extracts were variously effective against bacterial pathogen E.
and S.
aureus but showed no inhibitory effect on the growth of S.
typhi and yeast pathogens.
The significant differences .
= 0.
in the mean of growth inhibition zone for those three pathogens Ismayati et al.
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: 76-85 were only observed at the treatment of T5.
The clear zone of S.
albicans, and C.
after treated with 10,000 ppm T5 were 1.
90 cm.
20 cm.
40 cm, respectively.
Table 1.
The phytochemical test result of plant extractives collected Code Location Mt.
Merapi National Park.
Java (Ismayati et Toba region.
Sumatera (Meisyara et Phytochemical test result Local name Yield (%) Alkaloid Flavonoid Steroid Triterpenoid Saponin Tannin Kina (Cinchona pubescens Vah.
Kina (Cinchona pubescens Vah.
Kamadoh (Dendrocnide stimulans (L.
) Che.
Keremi (Homalanthus populneus (Geisele.
Pa.
Simar pahit-pahit (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.
) A.
Gra.
Simar huting-huting (Chromolaena odorata (L.
) R.
King & H.
Ro.
Pirdot (Saurauia bracteosa DC.
Sikkam (Turpinia sphaerocarpa Hass.
Ingul (Toona sinensi.
Hauresse (Azadirachta indica Jus.
sinensis showed the highest inhibitory against all pathogens tested above and the result is in accordance with the activity of T.
sinensis as antitumor, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, antiinflammatory, antibacterial, and antiviral, as reported by Peng et al.
According to phytochemical test.
sinensis has steroid and tannin that might act as active compound against the pathogen.
Similar results showed that T.
sinensis activity against S.
aureus was due to the presence of sesquiterpenes .
64%), including copaene .
27%), -caryophyllene .
16%),
18%), and -eudesmene .
06%) (Wu et al.
The difference in terpenoid compounds that did not appear in the chemical analysis may be correlated to the different location growth and age of the plant (Ismayati et al.
Inhibition zone .
Escherichia coli Control Ismayati et al.
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Bacillus subtilis Control Innhibition zone .
Salmonella typhi Control Inhibition zone .
Staphylococcus aureus Control Inhibition zone .
Candida albicans Control Inhibition zone .
Candida tropicalis Control Fig.
Box plot of inhibition zone of bacteria and yeast in antimicrobial bioassay in some crude extractives, 1% .
(Legends: Treatments with the same letters in the same graphic are not statistically different at p < 0.
05, as determined by DuncanAos test.
sample codes are referred to Table .
Ismayati et al.
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: 76-85 Although in this study, other extracts did not achieve antimicrobial activity as good as T.
sinensis, previous studies reported that some of the extracts also have considerable antimicrobial Tithonia diversifolia showed great antimicrobial activity on a particular microbial pathogen as Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Oso and Ogunnusi 2.
On the other hand.
Azadirachta indica extract showed antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacteria and favorable for foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms (Mahfuzul Hoque et al.
The antimicrobial activity of plants was believed originally from their secondary The secondary metabolites of nine collected plants were analyzed with a phytochemical test and the result is showed in Table 1.
Plant-alkaloids, such as sanguarine, tomatidine, reserpine, piperine, and cinchona alkaloids, are reported to have high antimicrobial activity against a broad range of bacteria (Barbieri et al.
Flavonoids have promising antimicrobial activity, such as selectively targeting bacterial cells, restricting virulence factors, and biofilm formation (Gyrniak et al.
Steroids from two Chromolaena species (Taleb Contini et al.
and Nerium oleander (Archit et al.
showed activity against Gram-positive Triterpenoids isolated from Dissotis senegambiensis and Amphiblemma monticola showed antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant S.
Aureus (Nzogong et al.
Saponin extracts from fifteen indigenous plants from Turkey are reported effective against Escherichia coli.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Streptococcus faecalis.
Staphylococcus aureus.
Candida albicans.
Candida parapsilosis.
Candida pseudotropicalis, and Candida stellatoidea.
TanninsAo mode of action against bacteria includes inhibition of extracellular microbial enzymes, deprivation of the substrates required for microbial growth, or direct action on microbial metabolism through inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation, also through iron deprivation (Scalbert 1.
The results suggested that T.
sinensis extract showed a strong antimicrobial effect against pathogens strains.
Therefore, to further clarify the effect of extractive content of T.
sinensis, the crude extract was fractionated into polar and nonpolar fractions using gradient solvent in polarity .
-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methano.
Obtained fractions were then exposed against all As seen in Fig.
3, the growth inhibition zoneAos diameter tends to increase by higher fraction concentration.
On n-hexane fraction, the zoneAos diameter in all pathogen seems to similar for all concentrations.
A significant difference was seen at a concentration of 0.
6% .
and above, with the inhibition zoneAos diameter about 0.
8Ae1.
6 cm.
Meanwhile, the diameter zone shown a slightly higher than n-hexane, it is about 2.
0 cm.
A significant difference effect was also found in phenolate content in T.
sinensis, polar extract .
-butanol and ethyl acetate, 36.
42 and 31.
64 m.
have a higher content than nonpolar solvent .
-hexane, 10.
06 m.
(Murningsih 2.
A strange phenomenon has occurred in the bacteria S.
aureus and B.
subtilis, where only at a concentration of 1% the addition of the extract can inhibit the growth zone.
As gram-negative bacteria, both of them are protected from certain physical assaults and do not absorb foreign materials that surround them as easier as gram-positive bacteria (Segun et al.
Meanwhile, the ethyl acetate fraction showed high inhibition with clear zone diameters of about 1.
65 cm and 1.
55 cm in C.
albicans and Ismayati et al.
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Concentration (%, w/.
Inhibition zone .
Concentration (%, w/.
Inhibition zone .
Concentration (%, w/.
Inhibition zone .
Concentration (%, w/.
Inhibition zone .
Concentration (%, w/.
Ismayati et al.
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Concentration (%, w/.
Fig.
Box plot of inhibition zone of bacteria and yeast in antimicrobial bioassay for n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol fractions (Legends: Treatments with the same letters in the same graphic are not statistically different at p < 0.
05, as determined by DuncanAos test.
sample codes are referred to Table .
Further study is needed to explore the potency of antimicrobial activity related to chemical The production of standardized extracts from plants is a real potential for improving local communitiesAo economy and important information in terms of plant conservation.
Conclusions The present study showed that all samples collected from Toba.
North Sumatra, and Mt.
Merapi national park have potential antimicrobial.
Toona sinensis (T.
was presented as the most active in inhibiting the growth of C.
typhi, and E.
coli, with the diameter growth about 2.
00, 1.
80, 1.
33, and 1.
33 cm, respectively.
The n-hexane fraction shows the greatest inhibitory activity for E.
coli and S.
ethyl acetate fraction for E.
subtilis, and C.
and methanol fraction for E.
coli and S.
Further investigation is needed to observe the mode of action onto microbial growth that caused by the chemical content of T.
Acknowledgments This research was funded by the Indonesian Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (IBSAP) Project Ae 2018.
The authors would like to thank the staff of Mt.
Merapi National Park for their help in the field.
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