Abstract

SOIL AND PHARMACY: FORMATION OF ANTIBIOTICS VIA THE MICROBES OBTAINED THROUGH AGRICULTURAL SOILS

Shruti Richa* and Rohit Pratap Ojha

ABSTRACT

One gram of soil contains 100 million to 3 billion bacteria. These bacteria obtained from soil play a vital role in various types of functions. Like in Pharmacy, many of the microbes present in soil have been used for medicines like: antibiotics, antidepressants, anticancer, and antifungal etc. There are, only a small percentage of the microbes present in soil which have been identified & being used in pharmacy to develop the medicines. E. g.: Clostridia sporogenes as an anticancer agent and Mycobacterium as mood booster. Over 500 antibiotics have been cultured from soil microbes. So, there is a lot to work on ‘Soil & Pharmacy’ to design new medicines for various therapy & treatment. It can become a wide area for research & study or can be called a new branch even. A group of researchers recently have identified a new microbe having antibacterial properties & the most important fact is that it inhibits drug-resistant strains of bacteria for whose discovery is very much necessary. Thus, Soil & Pharmacy can amalgamate also & can be a great successful emerging discipline for the health aspect & for the treatment of humans, animals & as well as for plants. So, it’s useful for agriculture as well as for pharmacy & has a huge scope from future aspects.

Keywords: Microbes, Clostridia sporogenes, Mycobacterium, mood booster, drug-resistant Strains.