Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Meistera chinensis is a species that belong to the Zingiberacea family. In Southeast Sulawesi, a population of Meistera chinensis was found in the Abuki forest of Konawe Regency. Empirically, its consumed by the community as a cooking spice and body fitness. The results of previous research revealed that Meistera chinensis fruit is efficacious as an antioxidant, anticancer, antimicrobial and antifungal. Research on the rhizome has never been done. This study aims to determine the potential for toxicity and the LC50 value of Meistera chinensis rhizome using the BSLT method. The rhizomes were extracted with 96% ethanol and concentrated using a rotary evaporator. Then fractionation was carried out with methanol and ethyl acetate as solvents. The concentration of the rhizome fraction was 7.81 ppm, 15.63 ppm, 32.25 ppm, 62.5 ppm, 125 ppm, 250 ppm, 500 ppm and 1000 ppm. Positive control used of 1.4 mg potassium bichromate and negative control is DMSO. Toxicity was determined based on the mortality of shrimp larvae and calculated by determining the LC50 value. The results showed that the LC50 values for the methanol, ethyl acetate and positive control fractions of Meistera chinensis rhizome were 252.88 mg/L, 57.17 mg/L, and 6.22 mg/L, respectively. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the Meistera chinensis rhizome fraction has a toxic effect on shrimp larvae (≤1,000 mg/L).
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).