Modern agriculture, consisting of extensive monocultures, requires the use of new environmentally sustainable strategies in order to combat the diseases that affect crops, such as fungi and oomycetes. These diseases have a significant impact on the main food-chain crops. Starting from the plant’s own chemical diversity for defense, glucosinolates (GSLs), which are secondary metabolites present in the tissues of plants belonging to the order Brassicales, have been widely related to the plant’s defensive capacity against various pests and diseases. The antimicrobial capacity of GSLs and/or their hydrolysis products (GHPs), such as isothiocyanates (ITCs), has been extensively tested on human pathogens, food-contaminating microorganisms and plant pathogens, in this last case, thanks to biofumigating the fields with plant tissues of the Brassica genus. In this sense, the natural pesticidal effect of various GSLs and GHPs against various fungal and oomycete pathogens has been proven, both at the field level as well as in planta and in vitro, thus showing to be a good strategy for controlling plant diseases in the field or opening the door to the use of these metabolites as natural biocides.

由广泛的单一文化构成的现代农业需要采用新的环境可持续战略，以抗击影响农作物的疾病，例如真菌和卵菌。这些疾病对主要的食物链农作物具有重大影响。从植物自身的防御化学多样性开始，芥子油苷（GSLs）是属于十字花科的植物组织中存在的次生代谢物，与该植物对各种病虫害的防御能力密切相关。GSL和/或其水解产物（GHP）（例如异硫氰酸盐（ITC））的抗菌能力已在人类病原体，污染食物的微生物和植物病原体上进行了广泛测试，这要归功于将植物与植物进行生物熏蒸的组织芸苔属。从这个意义上说，无论是在田间还是在植物体内和体外，各种GSL和GHP对多种真菌和卵菌病原体的天然杀虫作用都得到了证明，因此，这是控制该区域植物病害的一种良好策略。领域或为使用这些代谢物作为天然杀菌剂打开大门。