Bioactivity of traditional Chinese herbal medicines against Pyricularia oryzae

Two hundred and four species of traditional Chinese herbal medicines belonging to 80 families were collected from Yunnan Province in People’s Republic of China and tested for antifungal activities using a Pyricularia oryzae bioassay. Twenty-six herbal medicines from 23 families w...

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Published inPharmaceutical biology Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 225 - 230
Main Authors Hu, Ke, Dong, Aijun, Liu, Hongwei, Feng, Huisheng, Sun, Qishi, Yao, Xinsheng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisse Informa UK Ltd 1999
Taylor & Francis
Swets & Zeitlinger
Subjects
antifungal properties
bioassays
Biological and medical sciences
China
Dioscorea camposita
General pharmacology
herbal medicines
Magnaporthe grisea
Medical sciences
medicinal plants
Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Pyricularia oryzae
China
Asia
Pyricularia grisea
Monocotyledones
Pharmacognosy
In vitro
Biological activity
Dioscoreaceae
Medicinal plant
Fungi
Antifungal agent
Ethnopharmacology
Folk medicine
Angiospermae
Plant origin
Dioscorea
Spermatophyta
Fungi Imperfecti
Floral survey
Thallophyta
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Summary:Two hundred and four species of traditional Chinese herbal medicines belonging to 80 families were collected from Yunnan Province in People’s Republic of China and tested for antifungal activities using a Pyricularia oryzae bioassay. Twenty-six herbal medicines from 23 families were active against P. oryzae and the ethanol extract of Dioscorea camposita (Dioscoreaceae) exhibited the most bioactivity among all the tested samples.
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ISSN:1388-0209
1744-5116
DOI:10.1076/phbi.37.3.225.6302