The possible cytogenecity and mutagenicity effects of Allium sativum as a natural fungi/ pesticide on faba bean plant

Allium sativum (garlic) is one of the most famous plant rich in Sulphur products which are so benefi cial in bio-gardening and agriculture if applied in right ratios as natural fertilizer to the soil poor in organic matter (under 2%) or applied as natural fungicide &pesticide. It like many other important folk plants needs further investigations and revising for its products’ cytogenecity and mutagenicity. This study was designed to highlight the mode of action of fresh garlic water extract against two other garlic products (powder and tablets) dissolved in water on faba bean plant, as an ideal model system for both cytogenetic and biochemical investigations. Tomix tablets in water (two and three tablets/L), garlic powder (400 and 600 mg/L) and aqueous extract of smashed fresh garlic cloves (4500 and 7110 mg/L) were examined for their effect on plant mitosis and protein profi le after 24 and 48hr of treatments. The obtained results showed that; treatment with each form of the three tested garlic products induced concentration dependent reduction in the mitotic index, and affected notable change in the mitotic phase’ frequencies. Its effect on chromatin material is much greater than its effect on spindle formation or chromosomes mobility in cytoplasm. It also affected the proteins profi le of the treated seedlings using SDS-PAGE. Conclusion: Treatment with fresh garlic and with garlic powder shows concentration dependent cytogenecity and mutagenecity. Prolongation of treatment time to 48hr increases the clastogenecity risk. Recommendation: the usage of fresh Garlic extract as a fungi/ pesticide in agriculture should be with caution, as it show some mutagenicity and cytogenicity. Research Article The possible cytogenecity and mutagenicity effects of Allium sativum as a natural fungi/ pesticide on faba bean plant Samira A Osman, Rania T Ali* and Haiba AAA Department of Genetics & Cytology, National Research Center, Egypt Received: 26 October, 2020 Accepted: 21 November, 2020 Published: 24 November, 2020 *Corresponding author: Rania T Ali, Department of Genetics &Cytology, National Research Center, Egypt, E-mail:


Introduction
Some of plants' derivatives (ashes, extracts, oil, powder and pasts) have been admitted as effective natural defense system to other plants against biological pests and pathogens in an eco-friendly way.
These derivatives can keep the environment cleaner, less hazardous and healthier if compared with other chemically synthesized pesticides, herbicides or fungicides; which found to be a real threat to the air, soil, irrigation canals and wells as they are not easy to be degradable. Moreover, the extensive usage of these chemicals found to enhance the pest's resistance year over year (I SU Extension and Outreach and North Central IPM Center for fi nancial support; guide fl yer) and may cause a serious deterioration in plant and crop quality. Thus, inspire the researchers to seek for natural active pesticidal and or fungicidal (plant products& preparations) and re-consider this natural gift and revise it on many levels to declare its effectiveness and safety.
The cytogenetic level and gene expression level come to the front of those levels of revising. For example; natural pesticides such as Sorghum bicolor seedling water extract and petroleum ether extract of Nasturtium offi cinale seedlings' extract which can control the cotton leaf warm and the seeds powder of lupinus termis and black cumin which can protect the stored seeds from bruchids' attack; were all studied and revised for their possible cyto-genecity and mutagenicity on Vica faba plant [1,2]. Some of plants' essential oils are already marketed as fungicides for bio-gardening such as. "E-Rase™" from jojoba oil, "Sporan™" from rosemary oil, "Promax™" from thyme oil, "Trilogy™" from neem oil and "GC-3™" being a mixture of cottonseed oil and garlic Allium sativum [3].
Among the promising natural product is Garlic (Allium sativum) which known by the therapeutic effect of its derivatives Citation: Osman  in agriculture as it contains an abundance of chemical compounds such as organophosphorus and Allicin compounds that have been shown to possess benefi cial effects to protect against several plant pathogens [4].
Garlic (Alli um sati vum L., order Asparagales, Family Liliaceae) is a widely distributed plant in our region; it is herbaceous plant with height of 20-40 cm, a bulb of strong odor and pungent taste. It is one of the most important multi purposes used plant.
The active ingredient Allicin (allyl 2-propenethiosulfi nate or diallyl thiosulfi nate) is considered as a defense molecule and the principal bioactive compound present in the aqueous extract of garlic or raw garlic homogenate. When garlic is chopped or crushed, allicin is rived from alliin by alliinase enzyme (a CS-lyase, E.C. 4.4.1.4) [5].
Allicin in fresh garlic has an antibacterial effect on grampositive antibacterial and gram-negative bacteria [6], also an anti-fungal activity when applied to seeds before planting [7,8] and can be used as natural pesticide controls nematodes in ground nuts, fl ower thrips (WFT) in strawberry, mildews in cucumber, tomato leaf miner, leaf blotch in cereals [9]. Allicin is suggested to have toxic effect as it is readily membrane permeable [10], and easily enters cells and reacts with cellular thiols such as glutathione [11] or cysteine residues in proteins [12]. As a consequence, enzymes with accessible reactive cysteines can be affected in their function [13].
So based on this context, garlic is considered as a very important plant with great benefi cial rule on many other plants' protection against pathogens and pests. It may contribute to the development of natural products for the agricultural and other industrial uses as crud past, extract, it may be dried into powder or it may be used as building blocks' necessary to synthesize more complexed form such as medicinal tablets.
Study the mitotic division and phases index and frequency can give a clear image about the chromosomal behavior, segregation and transition of the genetic materials in-between the daughter cells in growing plants. Examine the bioactive natural products on model system meristem's cells refl ect its mode of action on the mitotic apparatus [14].
Also, protein profi ling of seedlings' total protein of model plant under treatment with examined material refers to the condition of gene expression into proteins.
The aim of this research is to visualize the cytogenetic and biochemical (SDS-PAGE) effects of Allium sativum (garlic) in three different forms (mashed fresh cloves, garlic powder and medicinal tablets) dissolved in water on Vicia faba L. (Giza 716 Egyptian cultivar) as plant model system.

Materials &methods
The designed experiment was carried out on bench top in genetics and cytology lab, NRC, Egypt.

I-Plant & experimental materials
The Vicia faba (2n = 12) (Var. Giza 716); used for all the conducted experiments, were obtained from the Crop Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt. And then germinated on fi lter paper rolls in a large beaker with 3cm height tap water at the bottom and divided into two groups for two designed experiments.
Tomix tablets (a natural medicinal preparation depends on garlic as building block) were purchased from pharmacy under commercial name "Tomix". The used doses are 2 &3 tablets/ litter , Garlic powder (an organic food additive) was purchased from a grand store of foods under commercial name "isis", the used concentrations were 400 & 600 mg /L which are calculated to be equivalent to the garlic ingredient in Tomix tablets and Garlic fresh raw (fresh aqueous extracts) were prepared after [6] in the lab as following: two weighs (two cloves ~ 4.5gm& three cloves ~7.11gm) of garlic were crushed and smashed into fresh paste in clean mortar and then dissolved in 1L as it is the best way to extract allicin from garlic. digital camera (Sony, made in Japan) and transferred directly to the computer and then the protein bands were analyzed by Total Lab program to fi nd out the molecular weight of each band and that to fi nd the effect of each treatment on gene expression of different genes responsible for the formation of proteins in faba beans.

Results
The data shown in (Tables 1,2) revealed that: 24hr treatment, each form of the three tested garlic product induced concentration dependent reduction in the mitotic index at root tip meristems of Vicia faba relative to the control, it also reveals that, the aqueous extract of garlic fresh cloves followed by the garlic powder in their lower concentrations score the highest mitotic index among the tested materials; this was reversed by increasing their concentration as they score the lower mitotic index which means; this form of garlic product at the higher concentration are the most destructive as they have the higher cytotoxic effect (Table 1).
It worth to mention that, although the cytotoxic effect was prolonged by expanding the exposure time of treatment to 48hr, there was a notable improvement in the mitotic indexes recorded after the higher concentration of Garlic in the tested forms (3cruched Tomix tablets 8.03%, 600mg Garlic powder 6.3%) and nearly with no effect on mitotic index after 7.11gm/ L Garlic cloves (Table 2).
Garlic products affected notable change in the frequency of mitotic phases (Figure 1), mostly at prophase stage, as all forms prolong the prophase stages relative to control. As illustrated, 24 hr treatment with (4.5gm/L of cloves aqueous extract showed the biggest effect on prophase stage 53.38% followed by the 600mg/liter of garlic powder 45.45%. on the other hand treatment with three tomix tablets induced the highest effect on metaphase frequencies reaches 45.21% on response of anatelophase duration which was 15.75% . Regarding the anatelophases garlic products in the three tested form alter the ana-telophases by lowering its index; except after the 400mg/ liter of garlic powder as it scored higher percentage if compared with control. Regarding the effect on both prophaeses and metaphases, 24 hr treatment with three tablets of tomix induce the highest effect on prophase and metaphase frequencies reaches 39.04& 45.21% on response of ana-telophase duration which was 15.75% followed by treatment with 4.5gm/L of garlic cloves induce the highest effect on prophase and metaphase frequencies reaches 53.38, 21.43% on response of ana-telophase duration which was 25.19% as shown in Tables 1,2 and Figure 1.  and after treatment with Tomix in its two concentrations. This was reversed after expanding the time of treatment to 48hr as the structure aberration was only noticed after treatment with Garlic fresh raw aqueous extract in its two concentrations. Regarding

Discussion
Regarding the mitotic index as a parameter for the cytotoxicity and used as an indicators of adequate cell proliferation [18] and the percentage of abnormal mitosis as a parameter for the genotoxic effects of the tested materials; the cytogenetic investigations of 2500-3000 cells from three replicates were carried out in order to confi gure the real effects of the garlic plant product in its three tested forms.
Cytogenetic investigations show that, the reduction in the mitotic index after treatments were concentration and time dependent and refl ect the cytotoxic effect of the garlic fresh cloves followed by the garlic powder then tomix tablets came the last; as it show the least reduction in the mitotic index. The slight improvement in the mitotic indexes recorded after 48h treatment with the higher concentration of Garlic in the tested forms (3cruched Tomix tablets, 600mg Garlic powder) reveals that the investigated plants under may have adapted the treatment or the 48hr aged Garlic product have lost some of its volatile components and did not show its assumed effect as 24hr aged Garlic form did (Table 2).
Concentration-dependent cytotoxicity of garlic product on plant cell was previously obtained by Sadaqa, et al. [19] when investigate the cytological effects of garlic aqueous extract on root tip cells of A. cepa. and also obtained by Suhasini, et al. [20] when tested on animal cells as it approved to reduce in mitotic index, induce growth arrest and morphological differentiation of MCF7 breast cancer cells.
On the level of treatment for 48hrs; 400mg of Garlic powder scored the lowest mitotic index 4.3% and highest percentage of abnormal mitosis 46.6% mostly of chromatin liquefaction type, moreover it shows protein bands disappearance in proteins profi le.
Regarding the structural aberration and micronucleus as an indicator for the clastogenecity, 24hrs treatment with Garlic fresh raw & Garlic powder did not show any effect on chromosomes structure despite the low percentage was scored in control and after treatment with Tomix tablets in its two concentrations; which may explained by that the chromotoxic effect of fresh cloves and garlic powder was sever as they prevent the fragments or breakage from complete separation from the chromosome or may explained by the corrective effect of these two form on the genetic material as Garlic described as an anticancer folk medicin [20]. Prolongation the time of treatment to 48hr; clarify the clastogenecty of the garlic fresh cloves. This clastogenecity effect was emphasized by the results obtained after the leaves' total protein electrophoresis as it was found 24hr treatment with Garlic fresh raw in its two concentrations and the Garlic powder 600 mg showed the higher number of disappeared bands, while 48hr treatment with Garlic powder in its two concentrations and tomix were the forms which showed the higher band disappearance.
Regarding the change in the protein profi le as an indicator for the potential mutagenic effect of the tested materials on the plant cell: the appearance of new protein bands, the highest number bands recorded after; three smashed cloves for 48h and treatment with two crushed tomix tablets for 24h; this can be explained by mutational event at the regulatory system of unexpected gene(s) that activate it or synthesis of new protein controlled by function genes and /or it might be related to defense responses in the plants to protect themselves from harmful effect of the tested material [28][29][30][31][32].
Despite that treatment with the aqueous extract of three fresh cloves for 24hr showed mutagenic effect but not of clastogenic type, it showed the highly protein bands disappearance; so this disappearance can be attributed to the chromotoxic effect of the fresh cloves which prevent many genes from get expressed; rather than the clastogenic effect which refl ect the genes loss via chromosomes breakage, fragmentation or laggard.

Conclusion
This study revealed that treatment with different concentration of garlic fresh cloves aqueous extract, and garlic powder in water for 24 & 48hr affected the mitotic activities of merestimatic cells. It also revealed that prolonging the time of treatment increases the risk of obtaining micronucleus, which is a countable indicator for the clasto-genecity of the tested product.
On the same track these products affected the total protein profi le of Vicia faba seedling leaves. Therefore, it can be concluded that the usage of Garlic extracts as a raw fresh product or as powder in agriculture as fungi-pesticides, should be with caution, as they have been indicated to be mutagenic and cytotoxic on Vicia faba plant.