Abstract

Bathua or leafy chenopod (Chenopodium album L.) is also known as fat hen, lamb’s quarters, goose foot, pigweed, dungweed, melde, etc. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is also a potentially serious weed in almost all winter-sown crops of the subtropics and tropics. It belongs to family Amaranthaceae, sub-family Chenopodiaceae, genus Chenopodium, and species album that has almost worldwide distribution and comprises of about 250 species (Risi and Galwey 1984).

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