| in vitro and in vivo anti-tobacco mosaic virus activities of essential oils and individual compounds. | essential oils are increasingly of interest for use as novel drugs acting as antimicrobial and antiviral agents. in the present study, we report the in vitro antiviral activities of 29 essential oils, extracted from chinese indigenous aromatic plants, against the tobacco mosaic virus (tmv). of these essential oils, those oils from ginger, lemon, tea tree, tangerine peel, artemisia, and lemongrass effected a more than 50% inhibition of tmv at 100 μg/ml. in addition, the mode of antiviral action o ... | 2013 | 23676919 |