Supercritical CO2 plant extracts show antifungal activities against Crop-Borne fungi

Katja Schoss (Author), Nina Kočevar Glavač (Author), Jasna Dolenc Koce (Author), Sabina Anžlovar (Author)

Abstract

Fungal infections of cultivated food crops result in extensive losses of crops at the global level, while resistance to antifungal agents continues to grow. Supercritical fluid extraction using CO2 (SFE-CO2) has gained attention as an environmentally well-accepted extraction method, as CO2 is a non-toxic, inert and available solvent, and the extracts obtained are, chemically, of greater or different complexities compared to those of conventional extracts. The SFE-CO2 extracts of Achillea millefolium, Calendula officinalis, Chamomilla recutita, Helichrysum arenarium, Humulus lupulus, Taraxacum officinale, Juniperus communis, Hypericum perforatum, Nepeta cataria, Crataegus sp. and Sambucus nigra were studied in terms of their compositions and antifungal activities against the wheat- and buckwheat-borne fungi Alternaria alternata, Epicoccum nigrum, Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium poae. The C. recutita and H. arenarium extracts were the most efficacious, and these inhibited the growth of most of the fungi by 80% to 100%. Among the fungal species, B. cinerea was the most susceptible to the treatments with the SFE-CO2 extracts, while Fusarium spp. were the least. This study shows that some of these SFE-CO2 extracts have promising potential for use as antifungal agents for selected crop-borne fungi.

Keywords

antifungal activity;growth inhibition;plant extract;supercritical CO2 extraction;Botrytis cinerea;Chamomilla recutita;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2022
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
UDC:	581.19:582.28
COBISS:	96933891
ISSN:	1420-3049
Views:	84
Downloads:	28
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	protiglivično delovanje;zaviranje rasti;rastlinski izvleček;superkritična ekstrakcija CO2;Glive;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 1-15
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ27
Issue:	ǂiss. ǂ3
Chronology:	2022
DOI:	10.3390/molecules27031132
ID:	15624563