PERM, June 4 Scientists have filed an application for a patent for essential oil from the fruits of the Sosnovsky hogweed, the press service of the Perm State National Research University reported.
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“The Faculty of Chemistry of Perm University has developed a method for obtaining essential oil from the fruits of the Sosnovsky hogweed,” says the release.
Now scientists want to develop technologies for producing fungicidal preparations based on it, to be used in agricultural firms, livestock and poultry farms both in the region and and throughout Russia.
The oil was obtained by steam distillation. It is specified that it has high antifungal activity. On its basis, it is possible to create means to protect plants from fungal diseases, as well as for the sanitation of products and premises.
Sosnovsky's hogweed seriously clogs the land and causes deep burns in humans. Farmers and authorities are fighting it. From 2020 to 2022 in the Perm region it was expanded to 5.4 thousand hectares, this work continues. In the 20th century, it was cultivated as a silage crop, but lost its status in 2015.
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