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Catalina Tudora, Florin Nenciu, Adriana Muscalu, Floarea Burnichi, Florentina Gatea, Oana Alina Boiu-Sicuia and Florentina Israel-Roming
Essential oils (EOs) extracted from various medicinal plants offer a promising alternative to non-selective chemical substances commonly employed in conventional agriculture. Their chemical composition includes several classes of chemical compounds with ...
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Manolo Rodríguez-Cervantes, Carlos Eduardo Zavala-Gómez, Karla Hernández-Caracheo, Juan Campos-Guillén, Eloy Rodríguez-de León, Aldo Amaro-Reyes, José Alberto Rodríguez-Morales, Sandra Neli Jiménez-García, Rodolfo Figueroa-Brito, David Osvaldo Salinas-Sánchez, Francisco Javier Flores-Gallardo and Miguel Angel Ramos-López
Spodoptera frugiperda is the main pest of maize. One of the alternatives proposed for its control is the implementation of products of botanical origin, such as those derived from Ricinus communis. In this work, the insecticidal and insectistatic activit...
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Muthusamy Janaki, Pavana K. Sivadasan Unni, Vethamonickam Stanley-Raja, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan, Bader O. Almutairi and Ahmed Abdel-Megeed
Agricultural pests can be effectively controlled using microbes, providing an eco-friendly alternative to available synthetic pesticides. Suitable entomopathogenic bacterial strains were collected from agricultural fields and evaluated for their insectic...
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Ali Irfan, Sami Ullah, Ayesha Anum, Nazish Jabeen, Ameer Fawad Zahoor, Hafza Kanwal, Katarzyna Kotwica-Mojzych and Mariusz Mojzych
The 1,2,3-thiadiazole moiety occupies a significant and prominent position among privileged heterocyclic templates in the field of medicine, pharmacology and pharmaceutics due to its broad spectrum of biological activities. The 1,2,3-thiadiazole hybrid s...
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Daniel E. Martin, Roberto Rodriguez, Derek A. Woller, K. Chris Reuter, Lonnie R. Black, Mohamed A. Latheef, Mason Taylor and Kiara M. López Colón
Grasshoppers are integral parts of rangeland ecosystems but also have the potential to reach population densities high enough (outbreaks) to cause serious economic damage from forage loss and affect adjacent crops. The objective of this study was to inve...
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Perumal Vivekanandhan, Kannan Swathy, Adelina Thomas, Eliningaya J. Kweka, Afroja Rahman, Sarayut Pittarate and Patcharin Krutmuang
Currently, medical and stored grain pests are major concerns of public health and economies worldwide. The synthetic pesticides cause several side effects to human and non-target organisms. Copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) were synthesized from an aqueous ex...
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Tanja Bohinc, Aleksander Horvat, Miha Ocvirk, Iztok Jo?e Ko?ir, Ksenija Rutnik and Stanislav Trdan
In a laboratory experiment, we studied the insecticidal effects of invasive alien plants on the rice weevil. The research was carried out in two parts. In the first part, we studied the insecticidal properties of seven different plant species, namely, Bo...
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B Deepa,OK Remadevi
The environmental concern and global demand for organically produced products provide an impetus to search for new, effective, safe and economical pesticidal formulations. Plants provide enormous scope for development into pesticides. Though more than 20...
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B. Deepa,O. K. Remadevi
The organic solvent extracts from the seeds of Erythrina indica were tested for their insecticidal action against Hyblaea puera, the most important defoliator pest of teak. The larvicidal activity of the petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol, ethyl alcoh...
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Rodolfo Figueroa-Brito, Patricia Villa-Ayala, Jesús F. López-Olguín, Arturo Huerta-de la Peña, Juan R. Pacheco-Aguilar, Miguel A. Ramos-López
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The damage caused by the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to vegetative-stage maize cultivated with chemical nitrogen fertilizers, vermicompost, and Carica papaya L. (Caricaceae) seed extract was estimated. Each shoot wa...
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Ke Liu, Zhenhong Qi, Li Tan, Caiyan Yang and Canwei Hu
Biopesticides are perceived as a feasible alternative to chemical pesticides, providing an effective approach to pest management while mitigating the undesirable effects of chemical pesticide overuse. Yet, due to the distinctive attributes of the two typ...
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A.G.W.U. Perera,M.M.S.C. Karunaratne,S.D.M. Chinthaka
Neem (Azadirachta indica A. juss), is known to possess a wide range of pharmacological properties and is thus commercially exploitable. Apart from its medicinal potential, a considerable progress has been achieved regarding biological potential and chemi...
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Spiridon Mantzoukas, Foteini Kitsiou, Ioannis Lagogiannis and Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos
The cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a notorious agricultural pest with world-wide distribution, extreme polyphagy, high mobility and fecundity, facultative diapause, and significant resistance to chemical insecti...
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Patrick Maada Ngegba, Gaofeng Cui, Muhammad Zaryab Khalid and Guohua Zhong
Pest management is being confronted with immense economic and environmental issues worldwide because of massive utilization and over-reliance on pesticides. The non-target toxicity, residual consequence, and challenging biodegradability of these syntheti...
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Spiridon Mantzoukas, Ioannis Lagogiannis, Katerina Karmakolia, Anastasia Rodi, Maria Gazepi and Panagiotis A. Eliopoulos
Fungal virulence is multifaceted and dependent on multiple abiotic factors. The present study represents an investigation of the effect of one such abiotic factor, that of the grain type, on the insecticidal action of three entomopathogenic fungal specie...
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Jaqueline Scapinello, J. Vladimir de Oliveira, Fernanda Kuhn, Daniel Albeny-Simões, Luis Chiaradia, Osmar Tomazelli Jr., Jacir Dalmagro
The aim of this study was to evaluate the appetite suppression and insecticidal activity of Melia azedarach aerial component extracts on the larvae of Spodoptera frugiperda obtained from the maceration by solvent, ultrasound and supercritical CO2 extract...
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Jaqueline Scapinello, J. Vladimir de Oliveira, Fernanda Kuhn, Daniel Albeny-Simões, Luis Chiaradia, Osmar Tomazelli Jr., Jacir Dalmagro
The aim of this study was to evaluate the appetite suppression and insecticidal activity of Melia azedarach aerial component extracts on the larvae of Spodoptera frugiperda obtained from the maceration by solvent, ultrasound and supercritical CO2 extract...
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Jaciele O. Dantas, Sócrates C. H. Cavalcanti, Ana Paula A. Araújo, Jefferson E. Silva, Thaysnara B. Brito, Valfran S. Andrade, Heloisa S. S. Pinheiro, Swamy R. S. A. Tavares, Arie F. Blank and Leandro Bacci
Leaf-cutting ants are important pests of agricultural and forest crops. Currently, few insecticides are registered for the control of these insects. Natural bioactive molecules can serve as models for the synthesis of new insecticidal compounds. Such ant...
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Jaciele O. Dantas, Sócrates C. H. Cavalcanti, Ana Paula A. Araújo, Arie F. Blank, Jefferson E. Silva, Marcelo C. Picanço, Eraldo Lima, Valfran S. Andrade, Thaysnara B. Brito and Leandro Bacci
Ants belonging to the genus Solenopsis are highly significant invasive pests worldwide. The control of these insects has historically relied on the use of synthetic insecticides, which, unfortunately, has led to a range of ecological repercussions. In li...
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Navid Mahdizadeh Gharakhanlou, Navid Hooshangi and Marco Helbich
Malaria threatens the lives of many people throughout the world. To counteract its spread, knowledge of the prevalence of malaria and the effectiveness of intervention strategies is of great importance. The aim of this study was to assess (1) the spread ...
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