Screening of Higher Plants Reputed as Pesticides Using the Brine Shrimp Lethality Assay
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Pharmacognosy
- Vol. 31 (4) , 250-254
- https://doi.org/10.3109/13880209309082949
Abstract
Five plants reputed to have pesticidal properties were extracted AND screened using the brine shrimp lethality bioassay. An additional five medicinal plants were also extracted AND screened.Keywords
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