What is orange peel essential oil and what is its function?
2020/8/7 3456. Television Plant Protection Technology
Orange peel essential oil is a kind of plant essential oil, which is an aromatic mixture extracted from fresh sweet orange peel, orange peel and pomelo peel. As an insecticidal fungicide, it has good permeability and diffusivity. So, what is orange peel essential oil? What is the function of orange peel essential oil? Let's have a look.
What is orange peel essential oil?
Orange peel essential oil is a natural plant extract, which comes from orange peel. As an additive, it is widely used in food, cosmetics, medical care, beauty, detergent and other fields in Europe. It has bactericidal, antibacterial, insecticidal, acaricidal, anthelmintic and antioxidant activities, and effectively protects crop growth.
What is orange peel essential oil and what is its function?
What is the function of orange peel essential oil?
1, with insecticidal and bactericidal effects.
Orange peel essential oil has unique insecticidal and bactericidal properties: the insecticidal mechanism is to dehydrate and dry insects by dissolving their waxy layer; The mechanism of disease removal is to dissolve the phospholipid layer of pathogen spores and make the pathogen dry and die. Orange peel essential oil has a strong synergistic effect, which can obviously improve the control effect and prolong the duration, such as scale insects, aphids, whiteflies, Bemisia tabaci, Tetranychus urticae, red spider, pear psyllid, psyllid, powdery mildew, gray mold, black spot and so on. At high concentration, it is a new biological insecticide with no residue and good safety. The dosage for controlling Bemisia tabaci on tomatoes is 75-93.75g/ha.
2. It has synergistic effect.
The orange peel essential oil has excellent permeability and spreadability at low concentration. It was quickly absorbed and completely dried 22 minutes after spraying. Different from the way that mineral oil suffocates pests by sealing their stomata, it also brings the hidden danger of plant stomata closure. Orange peel essential oil is organically combined with crops to dissolve the wax layer of pests without damaging leaves.
Step 3 improve crops
Orange peel essential oil can stimulate the self-defense of plants, provide trace elements for crops, and improve the quality and yield of crops.
4, high safety
Orange peel essential oil is safe for crops and can be used in flowering period, young fruit period and fruit expansion period. Strong compatibility, can be mixed with Amista, Bordeaux mixture, Sheng Da and other routine use. Safe for natural enemies of pests, safe for ladybugs, bees, etc. Compared with traditional siloxane, azone and thione, it is safer to compound with other popular agro-chemical investment promotion networks.