Candida albicans can form biofilms composed of yeast, hyphal, and pseudohyphal elements, and C. albicans cells in the hyphal stage could be a virulence factor. The present study describes the chemical composition, antibiofilm, and antihyphal activities of cedar leaf essential oil (CLEO), which was found to possess remarkable antibiofilm activity against C. albicans but not to affect its plankto...

Abstract Many aromatic herbs in the family Apiaceae produce essential oils that are used on an industrial scale for medicinal, cosmetic, and food purposes. Essential from plants show insecticidal activity can be substituted synthetic insecticides to reduce environmental pollution or harmful toxicity humans. Insecticidal of oil seeds coriander, Foeniculum vulgare Miller (Apiales: Apiaceae), maiz...

The study was conducted to determine fennel essential oil (FEO) yield, composition, and antioxidant activity during four different maturation stages of umbels with seeds (1st stage: immature-pasty; 2nd premature-waxy; 3rd mature-fully ripe; 4th only), leaves wild (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. subsp. vulgare) from the Montenegro coast. maximum yield found in premature at waxy stage (4.76 mL/100 g p....

Terpenes and terpenoids encompass one of the most extensive valuable classes secondary metabolites. Their ten-carbon-containing oxygenated representatives, monoterpenoids, are main components plant essential oils, being widely exploited in cosmetic, pharmaceutical, food industrial areas. Due to its widespread use, it is crucial investigate their environmental distribution. Thus, new water solub...

Most organic compounds provide vibrational spectra within the CH stretching region, yet the signal is difficult to interpret because of multiple difficulties in experiment and modeling. To better understand various factors involved, the ability of several harmonic and anharmonic computational approaches to describe these vibrations was explored for α-pinene, fenchone, and camphor as test compou...

The red bud borer Resseliella oculiperda (Rübs.) is a pest insect of apple trees when rootstocks are grafted with scion buds by 'shield budding'. The female midges are attracted to the wounds of the grafted buds where they lay their eggs. The larvae feed on the cambium and destroy the buds completely or partially, leading to bad union of the buds with the rootstocks. Budding strips are used ver...

L. stoechas subsp. luisieri is one of the five spontaneous species genus Lavandula that occurs spontaneously in Portugal. The chemical profile and antifungal activity essential oils were investigated. oil two phenological stages was isolated by hydrodistillation their components analyzed GC-FID/GC-MS. minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) fungicidal (MFC) both determinate to verify against dif...