Chemical Composition and Evaluation of Antifungal and Insecticidal Activities of Essential Oils Extracted from Jambosa caryophyllus (Thunb.) Nied: Clove Buds

Table 2

Antifungal activity and minimum inhibition concentrations (MIC) of essential oils extracted from seeds of J. caryophyllus (EO-JC) and the synthetic fungicide, fluconazole.

		Aspergillus niger (MTCC 282)	Aspergillus flavus(MTCC 9606)	Fusarium oxysporum(MTCC 9913)
EO-JC	Antifungal activity	50 ± 2.5%^a	89 ± 2.4%^b	56 ± 2.5%^c
	MIC (μg/mL)	2.9 ± 0.02^a	5.9 ± 0.02^b	2.9 ± 0.0^a
Flu	Antifungal activity	8.2 ± 2.0%^a	0.0 ± 0.0%^b	31 ± 0.58%^c
	MIC (μg/mL)	7.1 ± 0.0^a	—	3.1 ± 0.0^b

Means (±SD, n = 3) followed by different letters in the same row are significantly different (one-way ANOVA; followed by Tukey’s multiple range test, ). EO-JC: essential oils of J. caryophyllus clove buds; Flu: fluconazole.