“…In good agreement with previous studies showing that SA (Prithiviraj et al, 1997 ; Amborabé et al, 2002 ; Cory and Cory, 2005 ; Meyer et al, 2006 ; Wu et al, 2008 ; Qi et al, 2012 ; Zhou et al, 2012 ; Panahirad et al, 2014 ), ASA (Alem and Douglas, 2004 ; Stepanović et al, 2004 ; Leeuw et al, 2007 , 2009 ; Moret et al, 2007 ; Sebolai et al, 2008 ; Trofa et al, 2009 ; Swart et al, 2011 ; Zhou et al, 2012 ) or MeSA (Schadler and George, 2006 ) can directly impede growth in several fungal species, the present study documents that of the four compounds analyzed (ASA, MeSA, SA, SSA) three of them (SA, ASA, and MeSA) showed fungistatic activity toward Botrytis . That SSA was not active in blocking Botrytis growth also agrees with the absence of reports reporting a fungistatic activity for this molecule.…”