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Vol.5, No.8, 895-902 (2013) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2013.58108 Antifungal activity of total and fractionated phenolic extracts from two wild edible herbs Maria Antonia Gatto , Simona Marianna Sanzani , Piero Tardia , Vito Linsalata , 1 2 3 1 1 1 Maria Pieralice , Lucrezia Sergio , Donato Di Venere * 1 1 2 3 CNR-Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA), Bari, Italy; Corresponding Author: donato.divenere@r.it * Department of Soil, Plant, and Food Sciences (DiSSPA)—University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy Department of Pharmacy—Drug Sciences—University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy Received 18 May 2013; revised 18 June 2013; accepted 28 June 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Maria Antonia Gatto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Li- cense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT towards the development of alternative defence systems, such as natural pesticides with a lower environmental impact, able to limit the development of alterations on fresh fruit and vegetables in postharvest [1]. The chemical characterization of phenolic ex- tracts of salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor Scop. s.l.) and broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk.) was performed. Active fractions were separated and characterized and, in the case of O. crenata, two phenolic compounds, verbascoside and is- overbascoside, were quantitatively extracted, purified and characterized. These compounds proved to be effective in reducing the growth of some important fungi responsible for the decay of fresh fruit and vegetables in postharvest. Ver- bascoside showed significant activity against Penicillium italicum, fairly i