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

Table 8

Phytochemical constituents of petroleum ether extracts of selected weed plants.

Sr. number	Weed plants	Chemical constituents
		Fl	Sa	Tn	St	CG	Al	Anth	Ter
1	E. prostrata	+	+	+	−	+	+	+	−
2	C. murale	+	+	+	+	+	+	−	−
3	A. indica	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
4	F. indica	+	+	−	+	−	+	+	+
5	P. hysterophorus	+	+	−	+	+	+	+	+

Fl: flavonoids, Sa: saponins, Tn: tannins, St: steroids, CG: cardiac glycosides, Al: alkaloids, Anth: anthraquinones, and Ter: terpenoids; +: positive; −: negative.