Can Cinnamon be an organic phytopesticide for Chilean agriculture?
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Question by rickz_17: Can Cinnamon be an organic phytopesticide for Chilean agriculture?
i really need answers for this question since this concerns my investigatory project in chemistry.
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3 Responses to Can Cinnamon be an organic phytopesticide for Chilean agriculture?
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I haven’t heard of that one before – I will deffinantly bring this up to my ag professors this fall but I ran a search and this is what I came up with – nothing but 2 sites that list it as a great science project. i have never heard of cinnamon being used as a pesticide even in my pesticide class and we covered the organics too. When is your report due? I will be able to ask some instructors next week if it is not due asap. Let me know.
Actually run the search as cinnamon pesticide.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3404
http://www.mercola.com/2004/aug/7/cinnamon_oil_deet.htm
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_ChemReg.jsp?Rec_Id=PC33597
we use the pesticide info site for work.
http://www.pestmanagement.info/npmt/pesticideinfo.cfm?crop=cinnamon&search=Crop
It is on the list of epa minimum risk pesticides.
http://www.epa.gov/PR_Notices/pr2000-6.pdf
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/fung-nemat/aceticacid-etridiazole/cinnamaldehyde/cinnam-pest-pet_898.html
Good luck
gem753
November 14, 2011 at 4:17 am
You might check this out. They won a fourth place, $ 500 award for this study.
Cinnamon (Cinnamomun zeylaynicum): An Organic Phytopesticide for Chilean Agriculture
Felipe Alejandro Reyes, 16, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile
Nicolas Gustavo Cobo, 17, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile
john h
November 14, 2011 at 4:47 am
Probably not, unless you drown the plant in cinnamon oil. Some components are used as fungicides in plants. It would probably decompose to a fertilizer.
mike453683
November 14, 2011 at 5:06 am