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The authors suggest cinnamon, ajwain and clove oils as natural herbicides.
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e0“essential oils, particularly cinnamon, ajwain and clove, could be effective natural herbicides with potential for use in sustainable weed management”
t0“for saffron weed control saffron weed control”
e2“the weeds”
Title
Majid Azizi; Hoda Sajedimehr; Mansoureh Nazari; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-07106-4
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- Intervention effect Clove, ajwain, perovskia and cinnamon strongly inhibited lettuce hypocotyl and radicle growth.
- Observation Nanoemulsions with 1% essential oils and HLB 15 had the smallest particles, lower PDI and greater stability at 4 °C.
- Intervention effect Clove, ajwain, perovskia and cinnamon oils increased ion leakage in Agropyron repens and Bromus.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil reduced the chlorophyll index of Agropyron repens.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil reduced SOD activity in Agropyron repens by 40.7%.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil reduced Agropyron repens protein levels by 79.83%.
- Intervention effect Ajwain oil reduced Agropyron repens catalase activity by 39.56%.
- Intervention effect Ajwain oil caused the greatest reduction in Bromus chlorophyll index.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil reduced Bromus catalase activity by 82.8%.
- Intervention effect Perovskia oil reduced Bromus catalase activity by 52.32%.
- Intervention effect Clove oil reduced Bromus SOD activity by 24%.
- Intervention effect Nanoemulsion spraying increased Festuca ion leakage by 93%.
- Intervention effect Ajwain oil reduced Festuca catalase activity by 74.87%.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil reduced Festuca catalase activity by 63.07%.
- Intervention effect Clove oil reduced Festuca SOD activity by 45%.
- Intervention effect Perovskia oil reduced Festuca SOD activity by 41%.
- Intervention effect One percent nanoemulsion solutions produced visible leaf burn in all tested weed species within five days.
- Intervention effect Cinnamon oil caused over 90% weed desiccation after seven days.
- Intervention effect Ajwain oil caused over 90% weed desiccation after seven days.