Citronella oil is one of the essential oils that has potential as an export commodity in agribusiness sector. This a good market and strong competitiveness foreign markets. study aims to analyze yield quality citronella (Cymbopogon nardus L) based on freshness materials Langkaras Mountain, Tebing Siring Village, Bajuin District, Tanah Laut Regency. research was conducted at NTFP Quality Testing...

This study investigated insect bite protection and length of the protection with 30 repellents which were divided into 3 categories: plant oil, essential oil and essential oil with ethyl alcohol, tested against three mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, Anopheles minimus and Culex quinquefasciatus, under laboratory conditions. The plant oil group was comprised of Phlai (Zingiber cassumunar) and Swe...

Cymbopogon citratus, better known as lemongrass, is a plant commonly used for culinary purposes. It is known to contain the compound citronellal, which is responsible for the lemon-scent of many of the plants of the genus Cymbopogon. A chloroform extract of Cymbopogon citratus was screened to determine its free radical scavenging activities. Three different methods were used to test the antioxi...

Presently ,chemical control method popularly used against house fly ,nevertheless, major disadvantages, such as house fly resistance, toxic side effect to human and environment have increased. Botanical insecticides have been increasing evaluated in controlling house fly. In order to search for effective and environmental friendly control agent, Thai essential oils of Syzygium aromaticum (Clove...

Abstract. Fais MM, Yurnaliza Y, Hastuti LDS. 2022. Isolation and antibacterial activity of endophytic fungi from citronella grass (Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle). Biodiversitas 23: 6564-6569. Endophytic are a group functional microorganisms plants that can be used as sustainable source to produce bioactive metabolites including pharmaceuticals. Citronella Rendle) is kind medicinal plant could r...

Abstract. Rahmi Z, Yurnaliza Y, Hastuti LDS. 2022. Isolation and screening of lovastatin-producing endophytic fungi from lemongrass (Cymbopogon nardus L.). Biodiversitas 23: 4189-4194. Fungi have long been studied for their cholesterol-lowering compounds, known as statins the derivatives through fermentation in laboratory investigations. Therefore, this study aimed to isolate screen fungal stra...

Numerous plant compounds have antibacterial or antiviral properties; however, limited research has been conducted with nonenveloped viruses. The efficacies of allspice oil, lemongrass oil, and citral were evaluated against the nonenveloped murine norovirus (MNV), a human norovirus surrogate. The antiviral mechanisms of action were also examined using an RNase I protection assay, a host cell bin...