Bactericidal Potentiality of Purified Terpenoid Extracts from the Selected Sea Weeds and its Mode of Action
Terpenoids are hydrocarbons involved in a variety of basic functions in plants such as growth, developmentand other physiological events.Terpenes and their associ-ated molecules safe guard the organisms from pest, pathogen and herbivores.Simi-larly, therapeutically terpenoids function as antimicrobial agents against bacteria, fungi and viruses.The