Public demands to
reduce pesticide use, stimulated by greater awareness
of environment and health issues, as well as development
of resistance of some of the pathogens to fungicides,
limits the post-harvest application of chemicals
to agricultural products (Karabulut and Baykal 2003).
Only a few essential oils have been evaluated for their
anti Fusarium activity (Browers and Locke 2000; Rai
et al. 1999) and up to our knowledge no reports are
there for evaluation of essential oils against A. porri