Evaluation of the activities of five essential oils against the stored maize weevil

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1097-1102

  Odeyemi, Oluwakemi O ^a   Masika, Patrick ^a   Afolayana, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contact bioassay; Fumigation; Lamiaceae; Repellency; Sitophilus zeamais; Wild mint

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECT REPELLENT;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLEOPTERA; FUMIGATION; INSECT; MAIZE; MARIGOLD; MENTHA; NONHUMAN;

CURCULIONIDAE; HELICHRYSUM ODORATISSIMUM; HEXAPODA; LAMIACEAE; MENTHA ARVENSIS; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; SITOPHILUS ZEAMAIS; TAGETES MINUTA;

EID: 77954010957     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0800300712     Document Type: Article

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