Claim · model-written summary
At that concentration, Ricinus extract completely inhibited seedling growth of barnyard grass.
- Taxon
- barnyard grass
Echinochloa crus-gallie0 - Treatment
- R. communise0
- Outcome
- seedling growthe0
- Direction
- completely inhibitede0
- Qualifier
- 300-mg DW equivalent extract/mLe0
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Verbatim
e0“At concentration of 300-mg DW equivalent extract/mL, R. communis completely inhibited the germination of both cress and barnyard grass, and the seedling growth of cress, lettuce, Italian ryegrass, and barnyard grass.”
Title
Allelopathic prospective ofRicinus communisandJatropha curcas forbio-control of weeds
A.K.M. Mominul Islam; Hisashi Kato-Noguchi Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B - Soil & Plant Science 2013. doi:10.1080/09064710.2013.865073
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Association Inhibitory activity of Ricinus and Jatropha extracts depended on concentration and test species.
- Observation Lettuce seedling growth was most sensitive to both extracts.
- Observation Barnyard grass seedling growth was least sensitive to both extracts.
- Intervention effect At 300-mg DW equivalent extract/mL, Ricinus extract completely inhibited germination of cress.
- Intervention effect At 300-mg DW equivalent extract/mL, Ricinus extract completely inhibited germination of barnyard grass.
- Intervention effect At that concentration, Ricinus extract completely inhibited seedling growth of cress.
- Intervention effect At that concentration, Ricinus extract completely inhibited seedling growth of lettuce.
- Intervention effect At that concentration, Ricinus extract completely inhibited seedling growth of Italian ryegrass.
- Intervention effect At 300-mg DW equivalent extract/mL, Jatropha extract completely inhibited cress germination.
- Intervention effect At that concentration, Jatropha extract completely inhibited lettuce seedling growth.
- Intervention effect At that concentration, Jatropha extract completely inhibited alfalfa seedling growth.
- Observation Ricinus extracts had greater activity against major crop weeds than Jatropha extracts.
- Recommendation The authors propose Ricinus as a candidate for isolating allelochemicals for natural herbicides.