Claim · model-written summary
Fifteen percent aqueous extracts suppressed weed root length up to 99%.
- Taxon
- weede0
- Treatment
- 15% aqueous root and shoot extractse0
- Outcome
- root lengthe0
- Direction
- suppressione0
- Value
- 99e0
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Verbatim
e0“There was up to 48, 51, 99 and 55% suppression of the weed's germination, shoot length, root length and plant biomass, respectively, due to the 15% aqueous root and shoot extracts.”
Title
Herbicidal activity of Withania somnifera against Phalaris minor
Arshad Javaid; Shazia Shafique; Sobiya Shafique Natural Product Research 2010. doi:10.1080/14786410903169292
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Methanol extracts were most toxic among solvents.
- Intervention effect Methanol root and shoot extracts reduced weed germination by 21-71%.
- Intervention effect Methanol extracts reduced weed shoot length by 40-72%.
- Intervention effect Methanol extracts reduced weed root length by 50-99%.
- Intervention effect Methanol extracts reduced weed biomass by 32-83%.
- Observation Aqueous extracts were less toxic than methanol extracts.
- Intervention effect Fifteen percent aqueous extracts suppressed weed germination up to 48%.
- Intervention effect Fifteen percent aqueous extracts suppressed weed shoot length up to 51%.
- Intervention effect Fifteen percent aqueous extracts suppressed weed biomass up to 55%.
- Observation Hexane extracts had insignificant or stimulatory effects on shoot length and biomass.
- Intervention effect Aqueous foliar extract significantly reduced one-week-old weed shoot and root dry biomass.
- Intervention effect Two and three percent residues significantly reduced germination.
- Intervention effect Four and five percent residues completely arrested germination.