Can Cinnamon be an organic phytopesticide for Chilean agriculture?

Question

i really need answers for this question since this concerns my investigatory project in chemistry.

Answer 1

You might check this out.  They won a fourth place, $500 award for this study.

Cinnamon (Cinnamomun zeylaynicum): An Organic Phytopesticide for Chilean Agriculture

Felipe Alejandro Reyes, 16, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile

Nicolas Gustavo Cobo, 17, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile

Answer 2

Probably not, unless you drown the plant in cinnamon oil. Some components are used as fungicides in plants. It would probably decompose to a fertilizer.

Answer 3

I haven't heard of that one before - I will deffinantly bring this up to my ag professors this fall  but I ran a search and this is what I came up with - nothing but 2 sites that list it as a great science project. i have never heard of cinnamon being used as a pesticide even in my pesticide class and we covered the organics too. When is your report due? I will be able to ask some instructors next week if it is not due asap. Let me know.

Actually run the search as cinnamon pesticide.

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3404

www.mercola.com/2004/aug/7/cinnamon_oi...

http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chem...

we use the pesticide info site for work.

www.pestmanagement.info/npmt/pesticide...

It is on the list of epa minimum risk pesticides.

http://www.epa.gov/PR_Notices/pr2000-6.p...

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/fun...

Good luck