Irawan W. Kusuma
United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University,
3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8566, Japan
Kazutaka Itoh
Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8566, Japan
Sanro Tachibana
Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8566, Japan
ABSTRACT
The activities of two flavanoids, liquiritigenin and isoliquiritigenin, from Amboyna wood against the pathogenic fungi Corynespora cassiicola, Trichoderma harzianum, Fusarium oxysporum, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium italicum were evaluated using the agar dilution and paper disk methods. Low concentrations of liquiritigenin (20-40 μM) and isoliquiritigenin (16-33 μM) satisfactorily inhibited the growth of all the test fungi. Antifungal activities of the two flavonoids were found to be concentration-dependent. This is the first report that flavonoids from Amboyna wood are active against fungi pathogenic to the plants.
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Irawan W. Kusuma, Kazutaka Itoh and Sanro Tachibana, 2005. Antifungal Activities Against Plant Pathogenic Fungi of Flavonoids Isolated from Amboyna Wood. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 136-140.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.136.140
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.136.140
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.136.140
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.136.140
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