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Antibacterial and Antimutagenic Effects of Sweetpotato Tips Extract  

Lee, Joon-Seol (Mokpo Experiment Station, National Institute of Crop Science, RDA)
Shin, Mee-Jin (Department of Food Engineering, Mokpo National University)
Park, Yang-Kyun (Department of Food Engineering, Mokpo National University)
Ahn, Young-Sup (National Institute of Crop Science, RDA)
Chung, Mi-Nam (Rural Development Administration)
Kim, Hag-Sin (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS)
Kim, Jeong-Mok (Department of Food Engineering, Mokpo National University)
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KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE / v.52, no.3, 2007 , pp. 303-310 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sweetpotato shoot tops (leaves, tips and petioles) are known to be very useful parts as vegetables because of their high nutritive values and great biomass yield. In this study, the phenolic compound contents, antibacterial activity, mutagenic activity, and antimutagenic activity were investigated in sweetpotato tips that were 10-15cm of shoot top including stems, petioles and tender leaves after sprout of storage roots. The study was done by extracting sweetpotato tips with 80% ethanol and the ethanol fraction was re-extracted with hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, butanol and water. In ethyl acetate and butanol fractions, total phenolic compounds contained 95. 6mg/g extract and 69.3 mg/g extract, respectively, The antibacterial activity was measured using the paper disk method with concentrations of 1, 2, 5 and 10 mg/disk of butanol and ethyl acetate fractions against L. monocytogenes and S. Typhimurium strains. Higher doses of solvent extracts showed the higher antibacterial activities. In addition, 5, 10 and 20 mg/mL of the extracts were tested to determine the antibacterial activity in liquid culture. The sweetpotato leaf extract by ethyl acetate showed 1 log reduction compared to control after 24 hrs on Listeria monocytogenes, but 20 mg/ml of butanol extract completely inhibited the growth of the pathogen after 12 hrs. The extracts from ethyl acetate or butanol on Salmonella Typhimurium did less than 1 log reduction during cultivation compared to control. The numbers of S. Typhimirium TA98 and TA100 revertant colonies were 29-33 and 159-188 CFU/plate, respectively, indicating that solvent extracts were no mutagenic activity. The antimutagenic test was performed by adding direct mutagen 2-NF and MMS, and butanol and ethyl acetate showed antimutagenic effect. Thus, this study showed that sweetpotato tips had high phenolic contents and both antimicrobiol and antimutagenic properties. Sweetpotato tips would be good nutritive source because of their high nutrient content without any toxicity in consuming.
Keywords
sweetpotato; tips; phenolics; antibacterial; antimutagenicity;
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