Background The search for a healthier lifestyles and changing eating habits, have placed
viable and safer alternatives products in the market. In particular, edible flowers are used to …

Floriculture and horticulture have always been two parallel and very distinct agronomic
realities. Floriculture is concerned with meeting the ornamental needs of our urban …

Essential oils (EOs) and extracts of rose geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) and petals of
rose (Rosa damascena) have been fully characterized in terms of composition, safety …

Aims: We investigated the antimicrobial effectiveness of lemongrass essential oil on organic
leafy greens, romaine and iceberg lettuces and mature and baby spinach, inoculated with …

Flowers have been part of human life since antiquity. Several civilizations have left the
legacy of using flowers in art, natural medicine, as well as in cooking to color, flavor and …

Salmonella enterica is one of the most common bacterial pathogens implicated in foodborne
outbreaks involving fresh produce in the last decade. In an effort to discover natural …

Foodborne pathogen outbreaks have become an increasing problem in the horticultural
industry due to changes in diets, production, processing and distribution practices, as well …

ABSTRACT A two-phase experiment was conducted twice to investigate the effects of soil
management on movement of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in tomato plants. In the first …

Objective: Enterobacter cowanii is a genus of common gram-negative, facultatively
anaerobic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family. This …

Kosakonia cowanii (syn. Enterobacter cowanii) is a highly competitive bacterium that lives
with plant, insect, fish, bird, and human organisms. It is pathogenic on some plants and an …