Posts Tagged ‘botany’
Terpenes may stimulate plant growth
It looks like even plants prefer an entourage effect to the use of singular compounds. A new study out of Germany is showing that terpenes from the Peppermint plant may have a place in the future of sustainable, organic farming. The scientists coplanted two varieties of peppermint (Mutlimentha/MM and English/E) into test crops of Brassica…Read More
Terpenes as Pesticides: Learn How They Work
The terpenes from cannabis may end up being a key to environmentally friendly pest management. A group of Italian researchers published a paper on the utilization of the essential oil from hemp as a pesticide. The scientists steam-distilled the hemp to create an essential oil. That oil was tested on mosquitoes, aphids, common house flies…Read More
