Enhanced Antifungal Effect of Chitosan/Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) Essential Oil Bionanocomposites on the Viability of Aspergillus parasiticus Spores

Table 4

Effect of pepper tree essential oil and nanoparticles on the spores diameter of Aspergillus parasiticus, at 8 hours, at 27 2°C.

Treatment	Spore diameter (m)	Treatment	Spore diameter (m)	Treatment	Spore diameter (m)
EO-A	23.15 0.306	CS-A	23.48 0.333	CSEO-A	22.53 0.358
EO-B	22.02 0.367	CS-B	23.62 0.302	CSEO-B	22.01 0.369
EO-C	22.69 0.257	CS-C	23.69 0.320	CSEO-C	22.69 0.257
EO-D	23.26 0.308	CS-D	23.87 0.283	CSEO-D	23.26 0.308
EO-E	22.31 0.316	CS-E	24.52 0.283	CSEO-E	22.31 0.316
Control	21.88 0.499	Control	23.59 0.250	Control	21.88 0.499

Data, followed by their standard errors, are means of at least fifty measurements. Treatment means were separated using the Tukey test (). Different letters in superscript (in each column) indicate significant differences ().