Enhanced Antifungal Effect of Chitosan/Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) Essential Oil Bionanocomposites on the Viability of Aspergillus parasiticus Spores

Figure 4

Viability of spores of Aspergillus parasiticus grown in Czapek liquid media with added pepper tree essential oil (EO), chitosan nanoparticles (CS), and chitosan/pepper tree essential oil (CSEO), at °C. bars represent the mean ± standard deviation of 3 treatments at 5 different concentrations tested. lowercase letters show significant differences () between the treatments of the same concentration. Different capital letters represent significant differences () between the concentrations of the 3 treatments and control.