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Pathogenic and toxigenic fungi of the Aspergillus and Fusarium genera usually contaminate cereal grains and other commodities in the field and storage. These fungi have the ability to produce mycotoxins and thus to reduce the commercial and nutritional value of the products. There are more than 300 mycotoxins, being aflatoxins and fumonisins among the most commonly isolated (Zhao et al., 2015). Synthetic fungicides are used in the field or in storage facilities mainly to control these fungi. This can be problematic due to the pollution of the environmental, the health hazards for human and animals and resistance of some strains to chemicals. Essential oils (EDs) have the potential to control these mycotoxigenic fungi due to their chemical components (Adukwu et al., 2016).