Iranian Researcher Produces Botanical Medicine to Fight Rice Weevils
Hassan Qahari is the executive director of the research team that has produced the herbal medicine to tackle rice weevils.
Qahari, who is the associate professor of at the Islamic Azad University's Yadgar-e Imam Khomeini branch in Shahr-e Rey in the Southern side of Tehran, told ANA that his team has focused on protection of plants against different kinds of biotic and abiotic stresses.
Qahari considered the most important achievement of their plant protection research group as production of rice weevil tablet and other legumes.
“This tablet is produced from thymes which has gone through special processing and is a good alternative to the toxic composition of aluminum phosphide,” the university professor said.
He further said that his team of researcher will soon introduce a herbicide obtained from barley plant compounds.
Herbicide is a substance that is toxic to plants, used to destroy unwanted vegetation.
The researcher further said they have been able to get different articles and two books published out of their scientific ideas.
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