Evaluation of fungicidal and fungistatic activity of plant essential oils towards plant pathogenic and saprophytic fungi

Phytopathologia Mediterranea

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-256

  Banihashemi, Zia ^a   Abivardi, Cyrus ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contact effects; Eumycota; Oomycota; Plant extracts; Vapor effects

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; LAVANDULA; OOMYCETES;

EID: 82155187097     PISSN: 00319465     EISSN: 15932095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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