Broad-spectrum activity of the volatile phytoanticipin allicin in extracts of garlic (Allium sativum L.) against plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi and Oomycetes

Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-89

  Curtis, Hannah ^a   Noll, Ulrike ^a   Störmann, Judith ^a   Slusarenko, Alan J ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Allicin; Alliin; Alternaria brassisicola; Botrytis cinerea; Erwinia carotovora; Garlic; P.s. pv. phaseolicola; P.s. pv. tomato; Potato blight; Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola; Salicylic acid; Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris

Indexed keywords

EID: 20144367983     PISSN: 08855765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmpp.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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