Chemical Composition, Antibacterial, Antifungal and Antidiabetic Activities of Ethanolic Extracts of Opuntia dillenii Fruits Collected from Morocco

Figure 4

Antifungal activity of O. dillenii fruit ethanolic extracts (peel, seeds and juice). Cells were cultured in the presence or absence of 1 mg/mL of each extract and the growth rate of cells was monitored every 2 h by measuring the OD₆₀₀, as described in the materials and methods section. The residual extract of Fredolia aretioides was used as a positive control due to its recognized antifungal activity [32] and DMSO was used as a negative control. All experiments were carried out in triplicate. Error bars are shown; when they are not visible, they are shown smaller than the data symbols.