Antifungal and antibiofilm activities of the essential oil of leaves from Lippia gracilis Schauer against phytopathogenic fungi.
T N S OliveiraC M S Silva-FilhoE A MalveiraT K B AguiarHélcio Silva Dos SantosC C AlbuquerqueM B MoraisEdson Holanda TeixeiraMayron Alves de VasconcelosPublished in: Journal of applied microbiology (2020)
These findings indicate that the EO extracted from L. gracilis, and the monoterpenes, carvacrol and thymol have a great potential as antifungal and antibiofilm agents. Furthermore, this is the first report of the antibiofilm activity of the EO of L. gracilis and its major components against phytopathogenic fungi.