Effects of chitosan and oligochitosan on growth of two fungal pathogens and physiological properties in pear fruit

By Xianghong Meng, Lingyu Yang, J. Kennedy, S. Tian. 2010

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Biomaterials

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2. M. Badawy
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In Plant Science

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In Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Antifungal Edible Coatings for Fresh Citrus Fruit: A Review (2015, background): “Polysaccharide materials typically used to formulate edible or biodegradable coatings include cellulose, starch, pectin, chitosan, alginate, carrageenan, pullulan, and various gums [25,30,31,33–44].”
• A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection (2011, background): “Meng et al. [261] reported that both of chitosan (350 kDa) and oligochitosan (6 kDa) strongly inhibited spore germination and mycelial growth of two phytopathogenic fungi A. kikuchiana Tanaka and Physalospora piricola Nose.”