Global Advanced Research Journal of Plant Science (GARJPS)
February 2016 Vol. 2(1): pp. 001-010
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Review

A Review on Parthenium hysterophorus L. a noxious alien weed 

Ratikanta Haldar¹, Shahidur Rahman^1*, Nazmul Hossain¹

 

¹Departmentt. of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Islamic University,  Kushtia 7003, Bangladesh 

*Corresponding Author’s Email: shahidur888@gmail.com 

Accepted 3 October, 2015

 

Abstract

Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) is an obnoxious weed occurring throughout the globe viz. America, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Vietnam etc. This hitherto notorious plant causes allergic respiratory problems, contact dermatitis, mutagenicity in human and livestock. Crop production is drastically reduced owing to its allelopathy. Also aggressive dominance of this weed threatens biodiversity. In traditional medicine its decoction has been used for the treatment of many infectious and degenerative diseases. Parthenium hysterophorus L. confers many health benefits, viz. remedy for skin inflammation, rheumatic pain, diarrhoea, urinary tract infections, dysentery, malaria and neuralgia. Parthenium management would remain a great concern of the century. Management of P. hysterophorus L. by burning, chemical herbicides, eucalyptus oil and biological control by leaf-feeding beetle, stem-galling moth, stem-boring weevil and fungi have been carried out with variable degrees of success.

Keywords:  Hysterophorus,  Chemical Herbicides,Allelopathy,Mutagenicity, Diarrhoea,Eucalyptus Oil.

 

 

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