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Background   Botrytis cinerea  causes serious gray mold disease in many plants. This pathogen has developed resistance to many fungicides. Thus, it has become necessary to look for new safe yet effective compounds against  B. cinerea .    Methods  Essential oils (EOs) from 17 plant species were assayed against  B. cinerea , of which  Origanum vulgare  essential oil (OVEO) showed strong antifungal activity, and accordingly its main components were detected by GC/MS. Further study was conducted on the effects of OVEO, carvacrol and thymol in vitro on mycelium growth and spore germination, mycelium morphology, leakages of cytoplasmic contents, mitochondrial injury and accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) of  B. cinerea . The control efficacies of OVEO, carvacrol and thymol on tomato gray mold were evaluated in vivo.    Results  Of all the 17 plant EOs tested,  Cinnamomum cassia ,  Litsea cubeba  var.  formosana  and  O. vulgare  EOs had the best inhibitory effect on  B. cinerea , with 0.5 mg/mL completely inhibiting the mycelium growth of  B. cinerea . Twenty-one different compounds of OVEO were identified by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, and the main chemical components were carvacrol (89.98%), β-caryophyllene (3.34%), thymol (2.39%), α-humulene (1.38%) and 1-methyl-2-propan-2-ylbenzene isopropyl benzene (1.36%). In vitro experiment showed EC 50  values of OVEO, carvacrol and thymol were 140.04, 9.09 and 21.32 μg/mL, respectively. Carvacrol and thymol completely inhibited the spore germination of  B. cinerea  at the concentration of 300 μg/mL while the inhibition rate of OVEO was 80.03%. EC 50  of carvacrol and thymol have significantly ( P  < 0.05) reduced the fresh and dry weight of mycelia. The collapse and damage on  B. cinerea  mycelia treated with 40 μg/mL of carvacrol and thymol was examined by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Through extracellular conductivity test and fluorescence microscope observation, it was found that carvacrol and thymol led to increase the permeability of target cells, the destruction of mitochondrial membrane and ROS accumulation. In vivo conditions, 1000 μg/mL carvacrol had the best protective and therapeutic effects on tomato gray mold (77.98% and 28.04%, respectively), and the protective effect was significantly higher than that of 400 μg/mL pyrimethanil (43.15%). While the therapeutic and protective effects of 1,000 μg/mL OVEO and thymol were comparable to chemical control.    Conclusions  OVEO showed moderate antifungal activity, whereas its main components carvacrol and thymol have great application potential as natural fungicides or lead compounds for commercial fungicides in preventing and controlling plant diseases caused by  B. cinerea .

Effects of Origanum vulgare essential oil and its two main components, carvacrol and thymol, on the plant pathogen Botrytis cinerea