Sinapis arvensis is a weed with strong biological activity. Despite being a problematic annual weed that contaminates agricultural crop yield, it is a valuable alien germplasm resource. It can be utilized for broadening the genetic background of Brassica crops with desirable agricultural traits like resistance to blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans), stem rot (Sclerotinia sclerotium) and pod shatt...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Sonchus arvensis is used in the treatment of various human aliments as a traditional medicine in Pakistan. In the study its various fractions are characterized for scavenging of diverse free radicals. RESULTS Results of the present study revealed that various fractions of Sonchus arvensis significantly scavenged the free radicals (DPPH·, ABTS·+, ·OH, superoxide), howe...

abstract field bindweed is an important perinial weed of agricultural crops word-wide. there are plant pathogen fungus which could cause necrotic spots on the leaves and stems of convolvulus arvensis under natural coditions. in order to evaluate the effects of weed growth stage and length of dew period on disease development causes by aletrnaria alternata and fusarium sp. two expriments were pe...

rhizomania is one of the most important sugar beet diseases in iran and some other parts of the world. in this study, the infection rate of the most important weeds of sugar beet fields under natural condition  to the causal agent of the bnyvv (beet necrotic yellow vein virus) disease  was investigated at fars agricultural research center , iran. roots were collected from the infected weeds and...