Natural herbicides based on essential oils (EOs) extracted from aromatic plants are gaining relevance in contemporary agriculture. Due to their allelopathic properties, they have an inhibitory effect the germination and growth of different species, having, general, advantage high specificity. For this reason, analysis effects these natural compounds noxious weeds is continuously increasing. In ...

Authors’ addresses: 1 Laboratory of Natural Products and Organic Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Mentouri–Constantine, Constantine 25017, Algeria. 2 Laboratory of Microbiological engineering and applications, Life Science and Nature Department, Faculty of Life Science and Nature, University Mentouri– Constantine, Constantine 25017, Algeria. 3 Laboratoire des R...

Introduction: This review focuses on the efficacy and safety of Iranian medicinal plants found effective in the management of diabetes in humans and animals. Material and methods: EMBASE, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and IranMedex databases were searched up to 8 October 2007. The search terms were “diabetes” and “plant”, “herb”, “traditional”, and “natural” or “herbal medicin...

The effect of adding increasing levels (0, 25, 50 and 75 μl/75 ml buffered rumen fluid) of essential oils (EOs) to a basal substrate (50% roughage: 50% concentrate) on ruminal fermentation characteristics was evaluated in vitro by a semi automatic gas production (GP) technique. The EOs used were from Achillea santolina (AS25, AS50, AS75), Artemisia judaica (AJ25, AJ50, AJ75), Schinus terebenthi...

Background & Aim: The genus Tanacetum L. belongs to the family Asteraceae and tribe Anthemideae. According to the recent findings the number of Tanacetum species in Iran is 36, of which 12 are endemic. In this study the essential oil composition of Tanacetum chiliophyllum var. oligocephalum was investigated for the first time.   Experimental: The plant was c...

Achillea santolina, Nepeta cataria and Salvia bucharica are mainly known to possess antispasmodic use in traditional medicine. The essential oils from these plants were screened for their possible pharmacological activity with possible mode of action explored. Volatile oil was extracted by steam distillation using standard procedure given in British Pharmacopoeia 2001. For pharmacological activ...

Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) (C. maculatus) is one of the major pests legume seeds in storage causing significant damage, leading to food insecurity and low income for farmers. This work was planned develop eco-friendly agents from essential oils Artemisia herba alba Asso. (AEO), Maticaria Recutita L. (MEO), Dittrichia Viscosa (DEO) control C. maculatus. To achieve this goal, (EOs) were extr...