Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 Effect of cinnamon EO against mycelial growth and spore germination on PDA

From: Antifungal potential of cinnamon essential oils against Phytophthora colocasiae causing taro leaf blight

Treatments mg/mL	Radius of colony growth	Inhibition percentage¹
Treatments mg/mL	Radius of colony growth	Mycelium	Zoospores germination	Sporangia inhibition
0.00	45.00^a ± 0.00	0.00^d ± 0.00	00.00^d ± 0.00	0.00^e ± 0.00
0.156	12.55^b ± 0.29	72.1^c ± 0.64	70.02^c ± 1.58	67.46^d ± 3.09
0.312	6.17^c ± 0.18	86.2^b ± 0.42	84.61^b ± 1.26	82.66c ± 1.59
0.625	0.00^d ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	94.13^b ± 0.68
1.25	0.00^d ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00
2.5	0.00^d ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00
5.0	0.00^d ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00
Hymexazol	0.00^d ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00	100^a ± 0.00

Values indicate means of four replications and dissimilar letters in the same column indicate significantly different based on LSD test (P < 0.05) and ± denotes standard error
¹Inhibition percentage compared with control treatment without cinnamon EO

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