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Hari Gajula, Vadlapudi Kumar, Poornima D Vijendra, Rajashekar J, Torankumar Sannabommaji and Giridhara Basappa

Abstract: Psoralea corylifolia L. is an important medicinal plant widely used to treat various ailments and also from ancient times it is a part of Ayurveda and in Chinese medicines. Psoralen a linear furanocoumarin widely distributed in this plant which has anticancer activity. The present study carried out to evaluate the distribution of psoralen in various orangs of P. corylifolia. Organs such as seed, seed coat, endosperm, cotyledons, leaf, shoot and root of P. corylifolia L. used for the quantification of psoralen. Psoralen was quantified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Higher content of psoralen were recorded in whole seed than other organs used in the study.

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