A fungistatic chromene from Ageratum conyzoides

Phytoparasitica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-126

  Iqbal, M C M ^a   Jayasinghe, U L B ^a   Herath, H M T B ^a   Wijesekara, K B ^a   Fujimoto, Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ageratum conyzoides; Antifungal activity; Asteraceae; Chromene; Fungistasis; Precocene II; Rhizoctonia solani; Sclerotium rolfsii

Indexed keywords

AGERATUM CONYZOIDES; ASTERACEAE; ATHELIA ROLFSII; BOTRYODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; HYPHOMYCETES; PHOMOPSIS; PHOMOPSIS THEAE; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SCLEROTIUM ROLFSII; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 1942504923     PISSN: 03342123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02979776     Document Type: Article

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