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The antioxidant activity was evaluated using the ABTS and DPPH methods, and the antifungal activity was determined using the disk diffusion method. The results of the antioxidant activity tests showed that the essential oil of Th. zygis subsp. sylvestris has the highest value for the ABTS method (161.70 \u00b1 0.15 mM TROLOX eq. and 864.20 \u00b1 0.81 g TROLOX eq\/g EO) and the L. stoechas subsp. luisieri essential oil in the DPPH method (33.91 \u00b1 1.21 mM TROLOX eq. and 184.99 \u00b1 6.58 g TROLOX eq\/g EO). Furthermore, the essential oils with lower antioxidant activity were L. pedunculata subsp. sampaioana for the ABTS method (3.84 \u00b1 0.26 mM TROLOX eq. and 20.79 \u00b1 1.41 g TROLOX eq\/g EO) and Th. mastichina for DPPH method (0.96 \u00b1 0.03 mM TROLOX eq. and 5.31 \u00b1 0.16 g TROLOX eq\/g EO). Th. zygis subsp. sylvestris exhibited the strongest antifungal activity, with medium inhibition halo values of 60.50 \u00b1 5.77 mm and 54.33 \u00b1 2.93 mm for P. digitatum and P. italicum, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/microorganisms13092042","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,1]],"date-time":"2025-09-01T13:27:44Z","timestamp":1756733264000},"page":"2042","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Antioxidant and Antifungal Effects of Six Plant Essential Oils Against Penicillium digitatum and Penicillium italicum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Mar\u00eda del Carmen","family":"Garc\u00eda-Custodio","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias Finca La Orden-Valdesequera, \u00c1rea de Biodiversidad Vegetal Agraria, Autov\u00eda A-5 Km 372, Guadajira, 06187 Badajoz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4420-2822","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco","family":"M\u00e1rquez-Garc\u00eda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias Finca La Orden-Valdesequera, \u00c1rea de Biodiversidad Vegetal Agraria, Autov\u00eda A-5 Km 372, Guadajira, 06187 Badajoz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9593-6164","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Garc\u00eda-Alonso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias Finca La Orden-Valdesequera, \u00c1rea de Biodiversidad Vegetal Agraria, Autov\u00eda A-5 Km 372, Guadajira, 06187 Badajoz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cristian David","family":"Brieva-Trejo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias Finca La Orden-Valdesequera, \u00c1rea de Biodiversidad Vegetal Agraria, Autov\u00eda A-5 Km 372, Guadajira, 06187 Badajoz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7826-8814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco Mar\u00eda","family":"V\u00e1zquez Pardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y Tecnol\u00f3gicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX), Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias Finca La Orden-Valdesequera, \u00c1rea de Biodiversidad Vegetal Agraria, Autov\u00eda A-5 Km 372, Guadajira, 06187 Badajoz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1017\/S0021859610000936","article-title":"Postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: Opportunities to improve resource use","volume":"149","author":"Hodges","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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