Soil-borne phytopathogens can have detrimental effects on both cereal and horticultural
crops resulting in serious losses worldwide. Due to their high efficiency and easy …

The sessile plant has developed mechanisms to survive the “rough and tumble” of its natural
surroundings, aided by its evolved innate immune system. Precise perception and rapid …

Imaging of chlorophyll a fluorescence (CFI) represents an easy, precise, fast and non-
invasive technique that can be successfully used for discriminating plant response to …

Plants can use volatiles for remote suppression of competitors. Mints produce essential oils,
which are known to affect the growth of other plants. We used a comparative approach to …

Continuous cropping obstacles (CCO) refer to abnormal crop growth resulting from
consecutive cultivation of related crops in the same soil. Panax notoginseng is severely …

This study was conducted to evaluate the allelopathic effect of essential oil (EO) extracted
from five Foeniculum vulgare Mill. cultivars against two weed species, Portulaca oleracea L …

Herbicide resistance due to the increasing reliance on herbicides is a near-term challenge
for the world's agriculture. This has led to a desire to develop new herbicides with a novel …

In the search of sustainable and environmentally friendly methods for weed control, there is
increasing interest in essential oils (EOs) as an approach to reduce synthetic herbicide use …

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) production is lucrative to resource poor farmers in
marginalised areas of Zimbabwe, although most farmers have reportedly been failing to …

In the present study, aqueous extracts were obtained from the leaves and flowers of Vitex
pseudo-negundo. The effects of these extracts were examined on the germination …