The fruit oil ofCarum copticumshowed the presence of eleven components with carvacrol (45.20%) and ??cymene (41.98%) as the major constituents by GC-MS analysis. The essential oil exhibited considerable in vitro antimicrobial activity with most of the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria tested and the results are comparable with the standard bactericide. The pure oil inhibited the growth ofPhomopsis destructumAspergillus nigerandA. flavus.
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