Study of antifungal activities of seven essential oils from some Iranian medicinal plants against various postharvest phytopathogenic fungi

Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2046-2056

  Mohammadifar, Mehrnoosh ^a   Norabadi, Maryam Tavakol ^a   Hasanzadeh, Mostafa ^a   Dashtipoor, Samane ^a   Etebarian, Hassan Reza ^b   Sahebani, Navazollah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Essential oils; Postharvest fungi

Indexed keywords

AMMI; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CARUM CARVI; CUMINUM CYMINUM; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM COMMUNE; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PENICILLIUM ITALICUM; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER; TRACHYSPERMUM AMMI; ZATARIA MULTIFLORA;

EID: 84868230072     PISSN: 03235408     EISSN: 14772906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03235408.2012.720771     Document Type: Article

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