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The aim is to evaluate the inhibition of Colletotrichum acutatum by thyme, sage, and peppermint EO in vitro on detached strawberry leaves and determine EO chemical composition. Our results revealed that the dominant compound of thyme was thymol 41.35%, peppermint: menthone 44.56%, sage: \u03b1,\u03b2-thujone 34.45%, and camphor: 20.46%. Thyme EO inhibited C. acutatum completely above 200 \u03bcL L\u22121 concentration in vitro. Peppermint and sage EO reduced mycelial growth of C. acutatum. In addition, in vitro, results are promising for biological control. The detached strawberry leaves experiments showed that disease reduction 4 days after inoculation was 15.8% at 1000 \u03bcL L\u22121 of peppermint EO and 5.3% at 800 \u03bcL L\u22121 of thyme compared with control. Our findings could potentially help to manage C. acutatum; however, the detached strawberry leaves assay showed that EO efficacy was relatively low on tested concentrations and should be increased.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/plants10010114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,10]],"date-time":"2021-01-10T21:21:45Z","timestamp":1610313705000},"page":"114","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["The Use of Essential Oils from Thyme, Sage and Peppermint against Colletotrichum acutatum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2402-566X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Armina","family":"Morkeli\u016bn\u0117","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Plant Protection, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture, LT-54333 Babtai, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9478-4330","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Neringa","family":"Rasiukevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Plant Protection, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture, LT-54333 Babtai, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7522-9155","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lina","family":"\u0160ernait\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Plant Protection, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture, LT-54333 Babtai, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0496-9647","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alma","family":"Valiu\u0161kait\u0117","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Plant Protection, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture, LT-54333 Babtai, Lithuania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"181","DOI":"10.3114\/sim0014","article-title":"Colletotrichum\u2014Current status and future directions","volume":"73","author":"Cannon","year":"2012","journal-title":"Stud. 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