Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 The percentage (%) of intact (not decayed) fruits when fruits were surface inoculated with blue mold fungi

From: Beneficial effects of rosemary, thyme and tarragon essential oils on postharvest decay of Valencia oranges

	After 1 week	After 2 weeks	After 3 weeks	After 4 weeks
Negative control	100	100	90	55
Positive control	0	0	0	0
Ros500	0	0	0	0
Ros1000	11.1	0	0	0
Thym500	22.2	0	0	0
Thym1000	44.4	11.1	0	0
Tar500	22.2	0	0	0
Tar1000	55.5	33.3	0	0

Ros, Thyme and Tar are abbreviations for rosemary, thyme and tarragon plants that their essential oil was used in two concentrations of 500 and 1000 ppm in this study

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