Research Article

Toxicity, Phytochemical Composition, and Enzyme Inhibitory Activities of Some Indigenous Weed Plant Extracts in Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Table 7

Percent inhibition of enzyme activity in Drosophila melanogaster larvae using different concentrations of Bti at 30% concentrations of Euphorbia prostrata.

ConcentrationsA Ch EAcPAkPα-Carboxylβ-Carboxyl
(; d.f. = 5; )(; d.f. = 5; )(; d.f. = 5; )(; d.f. = 5; )(; d.f. = 5; )

Water + food
Water + Bti + food
Euphorbia prostrata + water + food
Euphorbia prostrate + Bti 10 ppm
Euphorbia prostrate + Bti 50 ppm
Euphorbia prostrata + Bti 100 ppm
Euphorbia prostrata + Bti 250 ppm

AChE: acetylcholinesterase, AcP: acid phosphatases, AkP: alkaline phosphatases, α-Carboxyl: α-carboxylesterases, and β-Carboxyl: β-carboxylesterases; means sharing the same letter within each treatment are not statistically different.