Organ-based chemo-profiling of Echinops echinatus Roxb. using high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) technique

Plants contain different classes of secondary metabolites that have different levels of solubility in solvents, based on their polarity. The sequential extraction of Echinops echinatus was carried out using three solvent systems, namely water, hydromethanol, and chloroform, where the ratio of hydromethanol is (30:70V/V). The extracts were subjected to a standard phytochemical analysis against some specific marker compounds, which include the...