Advances in Applied Research
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 2

Effects of Prosopis juliflora Leaf and Seed Extracts on the Larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus

  • Author:
  • K. Manimegalai, M. Thanga Tamilmani, R. Dhivya
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 119 to 125

Department of Zoology, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore- 641 043

*Corresponding author: E Mail: manijeysu@gmail.com

Online published on 11 June, 2014.

Abstract

Studies conducted with the leaf and seed extracts of Prosopis juliflora revealed that seed extract induced 100% mortality in 300 ppm in petroleum ether extract. Prolongation of larval period was observed in chloroform extract of leaf and petroleum ether and chloroform extracts of seed

Keywords

Prosopis juliflora, larval prolongation, chloroform extract