Claim · model-written summary
Thymol at 300 mg/L significantly reduced sweet potato soft rot incidence and severity and was among the most effective treatments.
- Taxon
- sweet potato
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Ipomoea batatast0 - Treatment
- thymol and thyme oil at 300 mg/Le0
- Interactor
- Rhizopus stolonifer
Rhizopus stolonifert0pathogen - Outcome
- incidence and severity of soft rote0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“all three EOs significantly reduced the incidence and severity of soft rot, with thymol and thyme oil at 300 mg/L, and carvacrol at 500 mg/L being the most effective”
t0“The Control of Postharvest Soft Rot Caused by Rhizopus stolonifer on Kokei No. 14 Organic Sweet Potato Roots by Carvacrol, Thymol, and Thyme Oil”
Title
Guangwei Wu; Chenqi Fan; Xueqian Zang; et al. Foods 2025. doi:10.3390/foods14071273
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect The vapor phase of carvacrol was more effective than the contact phase at inhibiting fungal growth and spore germination.
- Intervention effect The vapor phase of thymol was more effective than the contact phase at inhibiting fungal growth and spore germination.
- Intervention effect The vapor phase of thyme oil was more effective than the contact phase at inhibiting fungal growth and spore germination.
- Intervention effect Carvacrol at 500 mg/L significantly reduced sweet potato soft rot incidence and severity and was among the most effective treatments.
- Intervention effect Thyme oil at 300 mg/L significantly reduced sweet potato soft rot incidence and severity and was among the most effective treatments.
- Intervention effect Essential oils had minimal impact on sweet potato root firmness, weight loss, and color.
- Intervention effect Essential oils had minimal impact on sweet potato root starch, carotenoids and flavonoids.
- Intervention effect Residual odors increased after essential oil treatment.
- Observation Thyme oil contained high levels of thymol and carvacrol, plus other antimicrobial compounds.
- Intervention effect Thyme oil reduced sweet potato soft rot development more effectively than its individual components.