Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest plant natural products as possible synthetic fungicide substitutes.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaee0
- Outcome
- possible substitutes for synthetic fungicidese0
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Verbatim
e0“natural products from plants may well be used as possible substitutes for synthetic fungicides.”
Title
Antifungal and anti-mycotoxigenic activity of selected South African medicinal plants species
P.M. Dikhoba; N.I. Mongalo; E.E. Elgorashi; et al. Heliyon 2019. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02668
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Association Plant extracts varied in antimycotoxigenic action against three fungi.
- Observation Markhamia obtusifolia extract had a minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.08 mg/ml against Aspergillus flavus and Furasium verticilloides.
- Observation Curtisia dentata extract had a similar minimum inhibitory concentration against Aspergillus ochraceous.
- Observation Curtisia dentata extract had the highest total activity against Aspergillus ochraceous.
- Observation Fusarium verticilloides was more sensitive to plant extracts in mycelial inhibition tests.
- Observation Kirkia wilmsii extract had the highest mycelial inhibition against Fusarium verticilloides.
- Observation Five named plant extracts showed an IC50 of 0.01 mg/ml in the ABTS assay.
- Observation Curtisia dentata extract contained β-amyrin at 53.30%.
- Observation Curtisia dentata extract contained α-amyrin at 6.42%.
- Observation Markhamia obtusifolia extract contained neophytadiene at 4.38%.
- Observation Markhamia obtusifolia extract contained palmitic acid at 3.61%.