Root and soil populations of Meloidogyne incognita were significantly fewer from marigold, castor bean, and chrysanthemum than from tomato roots and soil, but not from fallow soil. Root populations of Pratvlenchus alleni were significantly fewer from marigold, castor bean, and chrysanthemum than from tomato: marigold had the fewest. Root populations of M. incognita and P. alleni from tomato sim...

Marigold cultivation is now a profitable enterprise to the farmers, but the socioeconomic data and information of this flower are very scarce in Bangladesh. Therefore, the study was conducted to identify agronomic practices, analyze relative profitability, and input-output relationship during February 2011. Primary data were collected from 100 randomly selected farmers from Jessore and Jhenaida...

Although marigold (Tagetes patula) is known to produce allelopathic compounds toxic to plant-parasitic nematodes, suppression of Meloidogyne incognita can be inconsistent. Two greenhouse experiments were conducted to test whether marigold is more effective in suppressing Meloidogyne spp. when it is active rather than dormant. Soils infested with Meloidogyne spp. were collected and conditioned i...

OBJECTIVE This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with marigold extract on growth performance, pigmentation, antioxidant capacity and meat quality in broiler chickens. METHODS A total of 320 one-day-old Arbor Acres chickens were randomly divided into 5 groups with 8 replicates of 8 chickens each. The chickens of control group were fed with basal die...

Marigold plants (Calendula officinalis Linn) var. ‘Plamen Plus’ were grown under field conditions during the 2009 season in Trebišov, Slovakia and in Sofia, Bulgaria. The antioxidant potential in Slovak marigold flowers was due to the content of glutathione and ascorbate, two peroxidases (glutathione peroxidase and guaiacol peroxidase) and monodehydroascorbate reductase. The antioxidant capacit...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of diets containing 0, 100, 200 and 300 mg of carotenoid/kg diet from marigold meal on skin pigmentation, growth, feed utilization and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus), with average initial weight of 1.8 g for a rearing period of 63 days. The pigmentation degree in skin of goldfish increased significantly with increasing inclusion of mari...

Commercially available Aztec marigold (Tagetes erecta) flower extract (Af.Cr) was evaluated for the in vitro antioxidant activity and in vivo analgesic effect on acetic-acid-induced abdominal writhing. The results revealed the presence of pronounced antioxidant potential in Aztec marigold flowers and a dose-dependent (100 and 300 mg/kg) analgesic effect. The antioxidant and analgesic activities...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of diet supplemented with marigold on egg yolk fatty acid composition and egg quality parameters. Sixty hens were assigned into three groups and fed diets supplemented with 0 (control), 10 g kg(-1), or 20 g kg(-1) marigold for 42 days. Eggs collected at the 6th week of the study were analyzed for fatty acid analysis. Laying performance, e...

Marigold flower extract, a natural pigment, was used to determine its effect on carcass and skin pigmentation, immunity and growth performance of broiler chickens. Two hundred and forty 1-day-old Arbor Acres broiler chicks were randomly distributed into four treatment groups with six replicates in a randomized block design. Birds were fed basal diet for 42 d with or without supplementation of m...

This study was conducted to evaluate the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of hydroalcoholic extract of Pot marigold aerial part as an indigenous medicinal Iranian plant. Pot marigold (family Asteraceae) is an important plant of genus Calendula (marigolds), having several medicinal applications all over the world. In order to evaluate its analgesic activities hot water tail immersion and ...