Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole

In order to identify natural products for plant disease control, the essential oil of star anise (Illicium verum Hook. f.) fruit was investigated for its antifungal activity on plant pathogenic fungi. The fruit essential oil obtained by hydro-distillation was analyzed for its chemical composition by...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yongfu, Zhao, Jianglin, Zhou, Ligang, Wang, Jihua, Gong, Youwen, Chen, Xujun, Guo, Zejian, Wang, Qi, Jiang, Weibo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules15117558
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author Huang, Yongfu
Zhao, Jianglin
Zhou, Ligang
Wang, Jihua
Gong, Youwen
Chen, Xujun
Guo, Zejian
Wang, Qi
Jiang, Weibo
author_facet Huang, Yongfu
Zhao, Jianglin
Zhou, Ligang
Wang, Jihua
Gong, Youwen
Chen, Xujun
Guo, Zejian
Wang, Qi
Jiang, Weibo
author_sort Huang, Yongfu
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description In order to identify natural products for plant disease control, the essential oil of star anise (Illicium verum Hook. f.) fruit was investigated for its antifungal activity on plant pathogenic fungi. The fruit essential oil obtained by hydro-distillation was analyzed for its chemical composition by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). trans-Anethole (89.5%), 2-(1-cyclopentenyl)-furan (0.9%) and cis-anethole (0.7%) were found to be the main components among 22 identified compounds, which accounted for 94.6% of the total oil. The antifungal activity of the oil and its main component trans-anethole against plant pathogenic fungi were determined. Both the essential oil and trans-anethole exhibited strong inhibitory effect against all test fungi indicating that most of the observed antifungal properties was due to the presence of trans-anethole in the oil, which could be developed as natural fungicides for plant disease control in fruit and vegetable preservation.
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spelling pubmed-62592452018-12-06 Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole Huang, Yongfu Zhao, Jianglin Zhou, Ligang Wang, Jihua Gong, Youwen Chen, Xujun Guo, Zejian Wang, Qi Jiang, Weibo Molecules Article In order to identify natural products for plant disease control, the essential oil of star anise (Illicium verum Hook. f.) fruit was investigated for its antifungal activity on plant pathogenic fungi. The fruit essential oil obtained by hydro-distillation was analyzed for its chemical composition by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). trans-Anethole (89.5%), 2-(1-cyclopentenyl)-furan (0.9%) and cis-anethole (0.7%) were found to be the main components among 22 identified compounds, which accounted for 94.6% of the total oil. The antifungal activity of the oil and its main component trans-anethole against plant pathogenic fungi were determined. Both the essential oil and trans-anethole exhibited strong inhibitory effect against all test fungi indicating that most of the observed antifungal properties was due to the presence of trans-anethole in the oil, which could be developed as natural fungicides for plant disease control in fruit and vegetable preservation. MDPI 2010-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6259245/ /pubmed/21030909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules15117558 Text en © 2010 by the authors; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Huang, Yongfu
Zhao, Jianglin
Zhou, Ligang
Wang, Jihua
Gong, Youwen
Chen, Xujun
Guo, Zejian
Wang, Qi
Jiang, Weibo
Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title_full Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title_fullStr Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title_full_unstemmed Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title_short Antifungal Activity of the Essential Oil of Illicium verum Fruit and Its Main Component trans-Anethole
title_sort antifungal activity of the essential oil of illicium verum fruit and its main component trans-anethole
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules15117558
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