• Corpus ID: 85782449

Insecticidal activity of sonchus asper root and leaf

@inproceedings{Samreen2015InsecticidalAO,
  title={Insecticidal activity of sonchus asper root and leaf},
  author={Ulfat Samreen and Muhammad Ibrar and Barkat Ullah and Lal Badshah},
  year={2015}
}

• Ulfat Samreen, M. Ibrar, +1 author L. Badshah
• Published 15 April 2015
• Biology

In order to control pest attack on the stored grainst entomologist throughout the world worked to find out effective device against these pests. Mostly synthetic drugs are used for control of these pests, which tough were effective, but at the same time they proved very dangerous, as they created extreme environmental hazards. These synthetic pesticides are mostly non-degradible and hence cause water and soil pollutions, as well as human health problems. Insecticidal activity of S. asper showed that the ethanolic extracts of leaf and root have significant effect as compared to aqueous extracts and the effect of leaf ethanolic extract is higher than the root extracts. At 1000 μg/ml leaf ethanolic extract showed 100% lethality of Tribolium cataneum. It is therefore, concluded that like other many plants, Sonchus asper has a great potential to be exploited as an effective insecticide.