Essential Oil Enriched with Oxygenated Constituents from Invasive Plant Argemone ochroleuca Exhibited Potent Phytotoxic Effects

Argemone Oil

Antibacterial activity of the latex of Argemone ochroleuca Sweet.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the antibacterial effect of the crude latex of Argemone ochroleuca (A. ochroleuca) as antibacterial potential against a range of human pathogenic bacteria. METHODS This study was carried out at King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January to March 2010. Seventeen ml of fresh latex from A. ochroleuca Sweet was collected, and the antibacterial acti...

Phytotoxic effects and a phytotoxin from the invasive plant Xanthium italicum Moretti.

The allelopathic effects of different parts of the plant Xanthium italicum Moretti were evaluated by conducting bioassays against two dicot plants, amaranth (Amaranthus mangostanus L.) and lettuce (Lectuca sativa L.), and two monocot plants, wheat (Triticum aestivum Linn) and ryegrass (Lolium multiforum). Leaf and fruit extract possessed the strongest biological activity, killing all seeds of f...

Effects of Glycerol Plasticizer on Physical Characteristic of Whey-Konjac Films Enriched with Clove Essential Oil

Background: Edible film is a food packaging that can be eaten directly and have protection function of outside contamination. The purpose of this research is to know how about the effect of using a glycerol plasticizer to film whey-konjac edible films that enriched with clove essential oil. Methods: A completely randomized design was used by different clove essential oil including P10, 0% clov...

Chemical Constituents of Essential Oil from Anethum Sowa Kurz. Seed

The oil obtained by the hydro-distillation method from the fresh leaves and stems of Anethum sowa L. (Dill) herb was analyzed by GC-MS. Nine compounds were isolated and identified. The major constituents were limonene (83 %), grandisol (7.4 %), bis-1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid (5.7 %), carvone (1.5 %), thujyl alcohol (0.7 %), βphellandrene (0.6 %), cyclohexane (0.5 %), β-myrcene (0.3 %) and α-t...