Table 6.3
(continued)
Mushroom species
Activity
Active principle or extract
Reference
Lyophyllum decastes
(Fr.)
Singer
Antibacterial
Water extracts from substrate where the mushroom was
cultivated, significantly reduced powdery mildew,
angular leaf spot, leaf spot, and scab of cucumber
plants originated by Podosphaera xanthii, Pseudomonas
syringae pv. lachrymans, Corynespora cassiicola
and
Cladosporium cucumerinum,
respectively
Parada et al. (2012)
Antifungal
Water extracts from substrate where the mushroom
was cultivated, originated a reduction of Colletotrichum
orbiculare,
the causal agent of cucumber anthracnose
Parada et al. (2011)
Allelopathic
Plant growth regulating compounds
Araya (2007)
Morchella esculenta
(L.) Pers.
Allelopathic
Plant growth regulating compounds
Araya (2007)
Paxillus involutus
(Batsch)
Fr.
Effective antiphytoviral
activity against
tobacco
mosaic virus
Novellectin
Wang et al. (2013b)
Antimicrobial
Ethyl acetate extracts of sporomes showed a negative
effect on the plant pathogen Nematospora coryli,
which originates stigmatomycosis
Stadler and Sterner
(1998)
Peziza badia
Pers.
Antimicrobial
Ethyl acetate extracts of sporomes showed a negative effect
on the plant pathogen Nematospora coryli,
which originates
stigmatomycosis
Stadler and Sterner
(1998)
Pisolithus
sp.
Anti-phytogenic
Phenolic compounds produced in culture broth had a potent
inhibitory effect on the Fusarium
sp.
Chari et al. (2012)
Ramaria eryuanensis
R.H.
Petersen & M. Zang
Insecticidal
An ether extract identified as ergosta-7,22-dien-3beta,5a,
6beta-triol showed activity against larvae of Plutella
xylostella
and another ether extract showed activity
against Mylhimna separate
Wang et al. (2005,
2010)
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