A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection

E. I. Badawy, Mohamed; I. Rabea, Entsar

doi:10.1155/2011/460381

Public

A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection

Published in International Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry • Jun 19, 2011

Authors:

Mohamed E. I. Badawy

Entsar I. Rabea

Abstract

Recently, much attention has been paid to chitosan as a potential polysaccharide resource. Although several efforts have been reported to prepare functional derivatives of chitosan by chemical modifications, few attained their antimicrobial activity against plant pathogens. The present paper aims to...

Subject

Chitosan

Biopolymer

Antimicrobial

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!