ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2021
Biocontrol Potential of Essential Oils in Organic Horticulture Systems: From Farm to Fork.
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- Invasive plant species for sustainable security and agricultural biocontrol: integrating allelopathic essential oils and defensive barriers.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Pooled it
- Occurrence, toxicity, dietary exposure, and management of Alternaria mycotoxins in food and feed: A systematic literature review.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2025Pooled it
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- Genome-wide identification and characterization of 1-amino-cyclopropane-1- carboxylate synthase (ACS) gene family in Carica papaya and expression insights in response to hormone stress.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
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- Antimicrobial Potential of Six Plant Essential Oils AgainstPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Nanotechnology for fungal pathogen control in crops: innovations, public health impacts, and disease prevention.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2025Review
- Forest tree extracts induce resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in Arabidopsis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to food safety and organic horticulture. Thus, people are looking for natural products to manage plant diseases, pests, and weeds. Essential oils (EOs) or EO-based products are potentially promising candidates for biocontrol agents due to their safe, bioactive, biodegradable, ecologically, and economically viable properties. Born of necessity or commercial interest to satisfy market demand for natural products, this emerging technology is highly anticipated, but its application has been limited without the benefit of a thorough analysis of the scientific evidence on efficacy, scope, and mechanism of action. This review covers the uses of EOs as broad-spectrum biocontrol agents in both preharvest and postharvest systems. The known functions of EOs in suppressing fungi, bacteria, viruses, pests, and weeds are briefly summarized. Related results and possible modes of action from recent research are listed. The weaknesses of applying EOs are also discussed, such as high volatility and low stability, low water solubility, strong influence on organoleptic properties, and phytotoxic effects. Therefore, EO formulations and methods of incorporation to enhance the strengths and compensate for the shortages are outlined. This review also concludes with research directions needed to better understand and fully evaluate EOs and provides an outlook on the prospects for future applications of EOs in organic horticulture production.
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