Thirty six medicinal plants (63 extracts) have been screened for antifungal activity against Cladosporium cladosporioides. Extracts of the following plants have displayed significant antifungal activity: Butea monosperma, Costus speclosus, Curcuma zedoaria, Eupatorium riparium, Pleiospennium alatum. Theobroma cacao i and Z~ngrber zerumbet. A preformed antifungal constituent of C. speciosus has been identified as methyl 3-(4-hydroxypheny1)-2 (E)-propenoate (1). The andfungal activity of this compound has been evaluated against Aspergillus niger, G. cladospo-rioides, Collerotrichum gloeosporioides, Curvularia sp. and Penicillium sp.
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Bandara, B. M. R., Fernando, I. H. S., Hewage, C. M., Karunaratne, V., Adikaram, N. K. B., & Wijesundara, D. S. A. (1989). Antifungal activity of some medicinal plants of Sri Lanka. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 17(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.4038/jnsfsr.v17i1.8236
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