Chemical Composition and <i>in vivo</i> Efficacy of the Essential Oil of <i>Mentha piperita</i> L. in the Suppression of Crown Gall Disease on Tomato Plants

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  • Hsouna Anis Ben
    Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa Biotechnology and Plant Improvement Laboratory, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax
  • Touj Nedra
    Research Laboratory of Environmental Sciences and Technologies (LR16ES09), Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Carthage
  • Hammami Ines
    Department of biology, College of science, Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center,Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University
  • Dridi Kahireddine
    Chemistry Department, College of Science and Arts, Qassim University
  • Al-Ayed Abdullah Sulaiman
    Chemistry Department, College of Science and Arts, Qassim University
  • Hamdi Naceur
    Research Laboratory of Environmental Sciences and Technologies (LR16ES09), Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Carthage Chemistry Department, College of Science and Arts, Qassim University

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  • Chemical Composition and in vivo Efficacy of the Essential Oil of Mentha piperita L. in the Suppression of Crown Gall Disease on Tomato Plants

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<p>This study was undertaken to determine the antibacterial efficacy of the essential oil (EO) of peppermint (Mentha piperita L.), in vitro and in vivo, against the phytopathogenic bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens (A. tumefaciens). The EO composition of M. piperita L. was investigated by Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) with 26 identified volatile constituents. The major constituents were menthol (33.59%) and iso-menthone (33.00%). This EO exerted a bactericidal activity against multiple strains of Agrobacterium species with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ranged from 0.01 to 12.50 mg/mL. In planta experiments, M. piperita EO, tested at concentration of 200 mg/mL, completely inhibited the formation of tumors on tomato plants inoculated with pathogenic strain A. tumefaciens ATCC 23308T. These results suggest that M. piperita EO could be used to control plant bacterial disease caused by A. tumefaciens.</p>

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