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Record W4417115620 · doi:10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00347

Experimental Validation of Free-Base Porphyrin Derivatives as Antifungal Agents against <i>Botrytis cinerea</i>

2025· article· en· W4417115620 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACS Agricultural Science & Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicFungal Plant Pathogen Control
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesUniversité de Sherbrooke
KeywordsAntifungalPorphyrinIdentification (biology)Drug

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Free-base porphyrin derivatives act as photosensitizers to form singlet oxygen, 1 O 2, a reactive oxygen species type II, and as such, they can act as antimicrobial agents. We report on an assessment of several neutral and ionic free-base porphyrin derivatives as potential antifungal agents by testing their effects on the crop pathogen Botrytis cinerea (B. cinerea), both in vitro and in vivo . The free-base ionic porphyrins tested impeded the growth of B. cinerea significantly in the 5–30 ppm concentration range when exposed to light but not under dark conditions. This response is consistent with a mechanism involving the photosensitization of 1 O 2 (g), which was confirmed by an observed phosphorescence signal at 1275 nm. Among the free-base porphyrins screened, charged molecules were particularly effective, a property that is associated with their enhanced ability to interact with fungal spores. Interestingly, ionic porphyrins were found to be efficient against various strains of B. cinerea, including those that are resistant to common fungicides, which are routinely used in agriculture. As such, our findings suggest that ionic free-base porphyrin photosensitizers serve as effective and sustainable alternatives to conventional fungicides.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score0.429

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.004
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it