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Measuring Volatile and Non-volatile Antifungal Activity of Biocontrol Products
Published on: December 5, 2020
Search for antifungal compounds from the wood of durable tropical trees
Alice M S Rodrigues1, Phellipe N E T Theodoro, Véronique Eparvier
1CNRS, UMR ECOFOG, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 97300 Cayenne, France.
Abstract:
Research on antifungal compounds from the durable wood from French Guiana Amazonian forest trees highlights the correlation between the activity of their extracts against wood-rotting fungi and human pathogens. The fractionation of an ethyl acetate extract of Sextonia rubra wood led to the isolation of rubrenolide (1) and rubrynolide (2). The potential of compounds 1 and 2 is described through the evaluation of their activity against 16 pathogenic fungi and their cytotoxicity toward NIH-3T3 mammalian fibroblast cells.
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