BACKGROUND Vermicompost of the toxic and allelopathic weed parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus) was explored for its possible use as an organic fertilizer. Replicated plant growth trials were conducted using four levels of parthenium vermicompost (0, 2.5, 3.75, and 5 t/ha) to assess their effects on the germination, growth, and fruition of a typical food plant ladies finger (Abelmoschus escule...

BACKGROUND Parthenium dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity. AIM To design a scoring system for the assessment of clinical severity of disease in Parthenium dermatitis and to use this scoring system in ...

Parthenium hysterophorus known as congress grass belongs to the family compositae. Direct contact with plant and plant parts, living or dead, result in dermatitis in mankind. Presence of pollen in air causes diseases, like fever and asthma (Kaur and Sharma, 1986; Lonkar et al., 1974; Rodriguez, 1975; Rodriguez et al., 1976a and b; Shen et al., 1976; Subba Rao et al., 1976, 1978). Live stocks ar...

Optimum conditions for the rapid, efficient, nondestructive determination of rubber producing potential in guayule (Parthenium argentatum) were established. The rubber producing potential may be defined as the ability of the plant material to synthesize rubber from a precursor under specified conditions. To achieve this, stem slices taken from the first 5 centimeters of branches were incubated ...

in the years 2012-14 a series of extensive surveys for natural enemies of parthenium were conducted in haryana. during survey, a leaf spot disease has been regularly reported on congress grass at different parts of the kurukshetra and its adjoining areas.the fungal pathogen was isolated from the affected parts of parthenium leaves and on the basis of cultural, morphological and molecular charac...

Background: The herb feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium L., Asteraceae) has an ancient reputation as an effective anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-asthmatic agent. Parthenolide a gemacranolide-type sesquiterpene lactone is the major constituent of European feverfew. Materials and Methods: The present study was intended to evaluate the in vivo antioxidant potential and radioprotec...

Parthenium hysterophorus, an invasive alien weed, is spreading rapidly across various land uses in Nepal. To understand how Parthenium is spreading across land uses at local scale, occurrence of this weed was recorded and its’ coverage in percent estimated along trails and road network at every 100 meter distance in Kirtipur Municipality of Kathmandu valley. In addition, vegetation sampling was...

The present investigation focused on the effects of plant and seed diffusates of Parthenium hysterophorus L. on seed germination of Raphanus sativus L. Level of glucose in germinating seeds as an indirect measure of amylase activity was estimated. About 91.66% viable seed of Raphanus sativus were treated in different concentrations of rhizospheric soil diffusates (PD) and germinating seed diffu...

background: giardiasis is a one of the most prevalent intestinal parasitic diseases in human, treatment of this disease through medicinal plants is very important since parasite resistance to chemical drugs exists. thus, in this study, the in vitro anti-giardial activity of chloroformic extract of tanacetum parthenium and artemisia annua on cyst and trophozoite of giardia lamblia were separatel...

Parthenium density and species richness were found to be more in non-invaded (N-I) sites as compared to invaded (I) sites of Jaunpur district. pH, OC and %N of the soil indicates that the plant survive naturally at higher level of salinity. In pot experiment, plant growth, proline content, TSS content, chlorophyll, N, P and K was not significantly affected up to 1% NaCl (w/w) over the control a...