Botanical insecticides in the twenty-first century—fulfilling their promise?

MB Isman - Annual Review of Entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Academic interest in plant natural products with insecticidal properties has continued to
grow in the past 20 years, while commercialization of new botanical insecticides and market …

Role of silica nanoparticles in abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants: a review

L Wang, C Ning, T Pan, K Cai - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The demand for agricultural crops continues to escalate with the rapid growth of the
population. However, extreme climates, pests and diseases, and environmental pollution …

Silver nanoparticles: Toxicity in model organisms as an overview of its hazard for human health and the environment

GR Tortella, O Rubilar, N Durán, MC Diez… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have attracted remarkable attention due to their powerful
antimicrobial action as well as their particular physicochemical properties. This has led to …

Graphene and its derivatives: understanding the main chemical and medicinal chemistry roles for biomedical applications

TM Magne, T de Oliveira Vieira, LMR Alencar… - Journal of nanostructure …, 2022 - Springer
Over the past few years, there has been a growing potential use of graphene and its
derivatives in several biomedical areas, such as drug delivery systems, biosensors, and …

Enhanced Antimicrobial, Cytotoxicity, Larvicidal, and Repellence Activities of Brown Algae, Cystoseira crinita-Mediated Green Synthesis of Magnesium Oxide …

A Fouda, AM Eid, MA Abdel-Rahman… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Herein, the metabolites secreted by brown algae, Cystoseira crinita, were used as
biocatalyst for green synthesis of magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO-NPs). The …

Unveiling antimicrobial and insecticidal activities of biosynthesized selenium nanoparticles using prickly pear peel waste

AH Hashem, TA Selim, MH Alruhaili, S Selim… - Journal of Functional …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the current study, prickly pear peel waste (PPPW) extract was used for the biosynthesis of
selenium nanoparticles through a green and eco-friendly method for the first time. The …

[HTML][HTML] Polyphenolic extracts from pomegranate and watermelon wastes as substrate to fabricate sustainable silver nanoparticles with larvicidal effect against …

AM Saad, MT El-Saadony, AM El-Tahan… - Saudi Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The agricultural wastes adversely affect the environment; however, they are rich in
polyphenols; therefore, this study aimed to employ polyphenol-enriched waste extracts for …

Synthesis of green nanoparticles for energy, biomedical, environmental, agricultural, and food applications: A review

AI Osman, Y Zhang, M Farghali, AK Rashwan… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Nanomaterials have been rapidly developed during the last decades, yet many
nanoparticles synthesized by classical methods are toxic and their synthesis procedure is …

Plant extracts for developing mosquito larvicides: From laboratory to the field, with insights on the modes of action

R Pavela, F Maggi, R Iannarelli, G Benelli - Acta tropica, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last decades, major research efforts have been done to investigate the insecticidal
activity of plant-based products against mosquitoes. This is a modern and timely challenge …

Nanotechnology and plant viruses: an emerging disease management approach for resistant pathogens

T Farooq, M Adeel, Z He, M Umar, N Shakoor… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Phytoviruses are highly destructive plant pathogens, causing significant agricultural losses
due to their genomic diversity, rapid, and dynamic evolution, and the general inadequacy of …