Parthenium hysterophorus in Current Scenario: A Toxic Weed with Industrial, Agricultural and Medicinal Applications

Abstract

Parthenium hysterophorus is an aggressive weed being invasive with allelopathic effect, it poses a serious threat to the environment and biodiversity. It adversely affects grazing animals and human beings, which directly or indirectly comes in contact with this weed. All ways to control it are not fully successful. However, recent reports suggest its medicinal uses as antidiabetic, antioxidant, antitumor and antimalarial which can be explored for human use after scientific trials. It is also a rich source of minerals like N, P, K, Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn which also makes it useful for agriculture. Uprooted Parthenium before fruiting can be used as easily available, cheap and nutrient rich compost. Parthenium can also be used as a potent herbicide, insecticide, pesticide and phytoremedial agent for metal and dye removal from industrial waste. As, Parthenium has various beneficial and harmful effects so, it should be used after thorough research.

Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems

“…Thus, it is important to identify adverse effects as soon as possible to minimize time and monetary costs. 709 Accelerating drug discovery relies on predicting how and where a certain drug binds to more than one protein, a phenomenon that sometimes results in polypharmacology. Researchers are developing ready-to-use tools aimed to facilitate research for drug discovery, 710 but CompChem+ML is expected to continue providing even more benefits to the drug development pipeline.…”

Las malezas, plantas incomprendidas

“…Aunque poco difundidas, las prácticas ancestrales han identificado la utilidad de más de 20 especies de malezas que han sido documentadas con sus usos para la curación de humanos (Azurdia, 1987;Gambhire & Biradar, 2016;Rahman, Hossain, & Islam, 2014). Se estudiaron los usos industriales de Parthenium hysterophorus L. demostrando que su actividad antioxidante lo hace útil para una amplia gama de trastornos, incluidos los trastornos neurodegenerativos, las enfermedades cardiovasculares, el cáncer y el envejecimiento (Khaket, Aggarwal, Jodha, Dhanda, & Singh, 2015). Otras publicaciones concluyen que la presencia de varios fitoquímicos y altos valores de fenoles y flavo-noides en Ipomoea carnea Jacq.…”

Efficacy of parthenium hysterophorus waste biomass compared with activated charcoal for the removal of CI Reactive Red 239 textile dye from wastewater

“…The dominating nature of PH also damages the agro-ecosystem balance, which poses a threat to biodiversity. 32 In the recent past, some researchers have experimented with PH weed for the exclusion of fabric colourants from wastewater using the dried powder of PH weed, 33,34 the ash of PH weed leaves, 35 sulphuric acid-treated PH carbon, 36,37 phosphoric acid-treated PH carbon 38,39 and formaldehyde-treated PH biomass 40 as a bio-adsorbent. In the current paper, it is proposed that the adsorption capacity exhibited by the aforementioned adsorbents prepared from existing modification methods could further be significantly increased using surface activation treatment.…”