If you spend time outside, you know that pests can be a real nuisance. You can naturally keep pests away by planting one ...

Dong and her colleagues were able to pinpoint a specific ingredient in pyrethrum flower extracts, called EBF, which activates a smell receptor in the mosquito's antenna called Or31. They found ...

Lives can be spared by applying insect repellents, including a chrysanthemum flower extract called pyrethrum that humans have used for thousands of years. A new study in Nature Communications ...

This flower, the pyrethrum plant, contains a potent chemical ... And, even though pyrethrin extract protects other plants from insects and pests, the flower can itself suffer from thrips that ...

"The pyrethrum is concentrated in the flower, the bit we are interested in is the seed. "It's evolved in nature as a way of protecting the seed from insect damage, but we're able to extract that ...

THE need for economy in the use of pyrethrum extracts in insecticidal practice makes necessary the continuous search for substitute toxic agents or at least for activator substances which may be ...

The price of pyrethrum extract, the main product obtained from the processing of pyrethrum flowers, jumped by 38.8 percent last year to hit the highest level on available record, due to a weak ...

Kenya is yet to meet the global export demand, which stands at 112 metric tonnes of refined pyrethrum flower extracts, the MD is optimistic of recapturing the highest export market share that ...

Dong and her colleagues were able to pinpoint a specific ingredient in pyrethrum flower extracts, called EBF, which activates a smell receptor in the mosquito's antenna called Or31. They found ...

Kenya is yet to meet the global export demand, which stands at 112 metric tonnes of refined pyrethrum flower extracts, the MD is optimistic of recapturing the highest export market share that ...