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Argentine plants as potential source of insecticidal compounds
A M Broussalis1, G E Ferraro, V S Martino
1Cátedra de Farmacognosia, IQUIMEFA (UBA-CONICET) Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
|January 5, 2000
Abstract:
CH2Cl2 and MeOH extracts of 15 Argentine plants used locally as insecticides, were evaluated for their insecticidal activity. Chenopodium multifidum L. (Chenopodiaceae); Flaveria bidentis (L.) O.K. (Compositae); Aristolochia argentina Gris. (Aristolochiaceae) and Tagetes erecta L. (Compositae) showed a significant activity against Sitophilus oryzae.