Abstract:
Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) is a common short lived perennial plant found in the Kenyan highlands and worldwide in distribution. It is a small highly branched plant that rarely adopt a habit of more than a foot in height. In more than 60 countries, it is considered a weed yet it is utilized as an important medicinal or food plant in barely over 30 countries. In Kenya it is consumed as a delicious vegetable and traditional medicine with therapeutic potentials in anti-ulcer, cancer among other diseases. Such medicinal potentials have created a need to better understand anti-microbial activities of this plant. Before this study, little was known about the antimicrobial potentials of its crude leaf extract against F. oxysporum and P. syringae, this study was therefore initiated to better understand these properties in varying concentrations. Plant leaves collected from Maseno University farm …
