PGE's evaluation in
laboratory and on semi-commercial scales highlighted its important
practical behavior featuring a fungicidal action, both curative and
preventive activity, long persistence, wide spectrum of activity and
high efficacy on different hosts under different conditions. Further-
more, the absence of signs of possible phytotoxic effect during in vivo
trials and the wide availability of the pomegranate peel as a waste
product of the processing factories, may facilitate the development
of PGE as a commercial formulation