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Abstract
From Vedic era to save the crops from the attack of pests and diseases, peoples used
crude chemical, animal and plant materials. Biological control is cost effective, eco-friendly and
an innovative. Synthetic chemicals cause severe and long-term environmental pollution and are
highly and acutely toxic and can even cause cancer in humans and wild animals. Also, pathogens
may become resistant to many of these chemicals.The aim of the present work was to determine
inhibitory activity of Syzygium cumini L. leaf extracts on fungi.The efficacy was studiedby
poisoned food technique against pathogenic fungi.The leaf extract was used at various