The antioxidative potential of plant extracts on the fungal pathogen Ceretolium fici, causing leaf rust in mulberry (Morus spp.). Ethanolic extracts of five plant species have been used as a traditional method of antimicrobial activities. Green house experiments showed the activities of antioxidant enzymes were determined in pathogen infected leaf extracts revealed from zero to tenth days after inoculation with pathogen and water. Inoculation caused an elevated the catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POX) activities. These activities were markedly altered in healthy plants and changed widely under different plant extracts treatment. Applying plant extracts of Eucalyptues citriodora, Calotropis gigantia, Azardchta indica, Vitax nigundo and Oscimum sanctum to infected mulberry plant, inhibited the fungal growth levels and recovered the activities of CAT and POX in the pathogen inoculated plants. O. sanctum and V. nigundo were found best among all plant extracts in inhibition of pathogen and recovered the activities of CAT and POX respectively. This application helped the plants to resist the detrimental effects of pathogen on growth, productivity and yield. The efficiency of the plants extracts were notably control the fungal infection and recovered the CAT and POX activities in C. fici infected mulberry plants.
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