On a global scale, people have used plants to treat diseases and infections, and this has raised interest on the plant biodiversity potencial in the search of antimicrobial principles. In this work, 75 crude n-hexanes, dichloromethane and methanol extracts from the aerial parts of 25 plants belonging to four botanical families (Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rubiaceae and Solanaceae), collected at ...

Field studies focused on evaluating the efficacy of new bactericides for reducing the incidence of walnut blight, verification of XanthoCast as an effective model for forecasting the disease, and on evaluating host resistance among walnut genotypes under ambient and simulated-rain conditions. In studies with new bactericides in plots in Butte, Tehama, Solano, and Fresno Co., no material evaluat...