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Article: Another natural from neem.
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- June 1, 1991
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Another Natural From Neem
Finding it in a greenhouse, you could easily mistake the young plant for a graceful ornamental fern, but it will mature into a full-sized tree. Its nut resembles a shelled peanut or a large citrus seed. Although not much to look at, neem seed has some extraordinary characteristics.
"ARS scientists have been working with neem since 1975," says James C. Locke. "Our current focus is to develop natural products from the plant that can reduce our dependency on synthetic pesticides."
And that's what they're doing at the ARS Florist and Nursery Crops Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland.
Locke, a plant pathologist, ...