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SUBMITTER: Mackrill JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7400633 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mackrill John J JJ Kehoe Roberta A RA Zheng Limian L McKee Mary L ML O'Sullivan Elaine C EC Prestwich Barbara M Doyle BMD McCarthy Florence O FO
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200707 7
The pathogen <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> is responsible for catastrophic crop damage on a global scale which totals billions of euros annually. The discovery of new inhibitors of this organism is of paramount agricultural importance and of critical relevance to food security. Current strategies for crop treatment are inadequate with the emergence of resistant strains and problematic toxicity. Natural products such as cinnamaldehyde have been reported to have fungicidal properties and are the s ...[more]