Determination of the antifungal capacity of total extracts of sinapis alba l by the method of plates and wells

Sinapis alba is a plant of the cruciferous family, known as white mustard and for its use as a condiment, also for the therapeutic effect of its seeds. This project was proposed to determine the antifungal capacity relative to S. alba extracts using three solvents with different polarities, apolar petroleum ether, moderately polar dichloromethane and polar ethanol, against fungi: Penicillium chrysogenum, Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the plates and wells method. The results allowed to determine that the total extracts of the flowers had relative antifungal activity on A. niger using the solvents petroleum ether and ethanol using a volume of 50uL, however, no other extract caused the inhibition of the fungi used in the study.