Bioactivity of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines Against Pyricularia oryzae

Ke Hu Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

Aijun Dong Institute of Research and Development of Drugs, Northeast Pharmaceutical Corp., Shenyang, China

Hongwei Liu Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

Huisheng Feng Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

Qishi Sun Division of Pharmacognosy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

Xinsheng Yao Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China

Abstract

Two hundred and four species of traditional Chinese herbal medicines belonging to 80 families were collected from Yunnan Province in People’s Republic of China and tested for antifungal activities using a Pyricularia oryzae bioassay. Twenty-six herbal medicines from 23 families were active against P. oryzae and the ethanol extract of Dioscorea camposita (Dioscoreaceae) exhibited the most bioactivity among all the tested samples.

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