Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology

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The Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology is part of the College of Agriculture at Montana State University in Bozeman. An exciting feature of this department is the diversity of programs in Plant Biology, Crop Science, Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Mycology, Plant Genetics and Entomology. The department offers BS, MS, and Ph.D. degree program

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    Urtica Dioica: A OSTRACIZED NEGLECTED PLANT IN AGRICULTURE SERVING AS A BEST MEDICINAL AND INSECTICIDAL PROPERTY
    (ZIbeline International Publishing, 2022-01) K.C. Shreejana; Thapa, Ronika; Lamsal, Ashish; Ghimire, Shirish; Kurunju, Kabita; Shrestha, Pradeep
    Urtica dioica is the flowering herbaceous perennial plant of family Urticaceae distributed globally but commonly considered as a weed in agricultural production. Stinging nettle is one of the emerging plant which has number of medicinal, curative value along with serving as the food and nutritional value in the house of people living below the poverty line. Despite of its million benefit it does not gain much popularity as it deserve. In agricultural production it is considered as weed so removed from the main field. However if the plant is planted in collaboration with other plants it fulfill both nutritive value and serve the main plant with low infestation of disease as pest as stinging nettle avoid the closeness of insect pest as it consist of thorn and also possess host plant resistance characteristics. The plant is only famous in the local rural level and still number of research is to be carried out to transform the globally distributed weed to marketable plant so as to finalize its medicinal value.
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