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| Zulfiqar,Sumer; Ahmed,Sohail; Sufyan,Muhammad; Arshad,Muhammad; Nawaz,Ahmad; Hassan,Babar. |
| Abstract Synthetic wood preservatives are the causes of large-scale environmental pollution and few have been withdrawn from the commercial markets in the past years. The present studies focused on determination of naturally present extractives of Ziziphus mauritiana as less toxic wood protectant against subterranean termites. Firstly, natural resistance of Z. mauritiana heartwood against termite was determined by exposing stakes in the field. For the preparation of extractives, air-dried Z. mauritiana heartwood and bark shavings were soaked in 1 liter each of ethyl acetate, hexane, petroleum ether and water in a bottle separately. Different dipping treatment times (36 and 72 hours) at 10, 20 and 30% concentrations of extractives on Populus deltoides... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Natural products; Wood preservation; Environment friendly; Termite; Wood extracts. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262020000100206 |
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