Screening the antifungal activity of essential oils against decay fungi from palmyrah leaf handicrafts

BACKGROUND: The whitish tender leaves of Palmyrah are used for making handicrafts. The problem with these articles is discolouration with time and become more brittle due to fungal attack. This could be prevented by some protective coating. Instead of expensive and harmful chemicals we decided to te...

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Main Authors: Subajini Mahilrajan, Jeyarani Nandakumar, Robika Kailayalingam, Nilushiny Aloysius Manoharan, SriThayalan SriVijeindran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2014-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602014000100035&lng=en&tlng=en

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