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. 2019 May 14;9:7330. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43433-x

Table 2.

EC50 value of ten substances tested on.

Plant essential oils Fumigation Contact
Mycelial growth Germination Mycelial growth Germination
Acorus tatarinowii rhizome oil EC50 <0.5 <0.5 78.6
χ 2 2.50
Angelica dahurica oil EC50 4.17 1.46 78.9
χ 2 2.39 1.28 7.52
Cinnamon bark oil EC50 <0.5 <0.5 4.28 33.1
χ 2 2.19 9.47
Cinnamon oil EC50 <0.5 <0.5 4.47 30.9
χ 2 2.99 9.37
Dalbergia wood oil EC50 24.7
χ 2 0.629
Ligusticum wallichii oil EC50 35.4 234
χ 2 0.215 15.5
Litsea cubeba oil EC50 <0.5 <0.5
χ 2
Myrrh oil EC50 <0.5 <0.5 64.2
χ 2 3.81
Thyme oil EC50 20.8 6.96 78.7
χ 2 0.220 6.78 12.8
Trans-cinnamaldehyde EC50 <0.5 <0.5 2.13 35.9
χ 2 4.19 12.4

V. Virens under two conditions. Pearson χ2 statistic with P values indicating the goodness-of-fit for data to the expected probit response mode. “—” indicates that this essential oil has such low or high activity that the EC50 value cannot calculated or χ2 cannot be calculated with this method.