The effectiveness of plant essential oils on the in vitro growth of postharvest phytopathogenic fungi

Plant extracts, such as essential oils (Eos), which have long been used in traditional preparations, are currently adopted by the industrial manufactures for modern formulations of consumer products. They are found in perfumery and cosmetology as well as in food and pharmaceutical industries. In agriculture, it was reported that Eos could be an interesting alternative to chemical fungicides and could be used as biofungicides in postharvest biological control. The present work was therefore undertaken to study the effect of thirty species of EOs on the in vitro growth of Penicillium italicum, Penicillium digitatum infecting citrus and Colletotrichum musea infecting bananas.

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