Antifungal Activity of Plant Essential Oils Against Botrytis cinerea, Penicillium italicum and Penicillium digitatum

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-92

  Vitoratos, Andrew ^a   Bilalis, Dimitrios ^b   Karkanis, Anestis ^c   Efthimiadou, Aspasia ^d  

^a IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Postharvest diseases; Spore germination; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880380507     PISSN: 0255965X     EISSN: 18424309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15835/nbha4118931     Document Type: Article

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