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 …

Non-target effects of essential oil-based biopesticides for crop protection: Impact on natural enemies, pollinators, and soil invertebrates

G Giunti, G Benelli, V Palmeri, F Laudani, M Ricupero… - Biological Control, 2022 - Elsevier
The control of arthropod pests of agricultural importance is increasingly difficult due to the
quick development of resistance in the targeted pest populations coupled to their massive …

Plant extracts-importance in sustainable agriculture

K Godlewska, D Ronga, I Michalak - Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2021 - agronomy.it
Plants due to the high content of various bioactive compounds are the main raw material for
production of valuable, and useful bio-products (eg., food, cosmetics, medicines …

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Management (WFM) Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: A Review

M Abubakar, B Koul, K Chandrashekar, A Raut… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
The whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius) is a notorious devastating sap-sucking insect pest
that causes substantial crop damage and yield losses due to direct feeding by both nymphs …

Efficacy of homemade botanical insecticides based on traditional knowledge. A review

J Dougoud, S Toepfer, M Bateman… - Agronomy for sustainable …, 2019 - Springer
Homemade botanical insecticides are widely used by subsistence and transitional farmers
in low-income countries. Their use is often driven by the limited availability or cost of …

Challenge of utilization vegetal extracts as natural plant protection products

D Suteu, L Rusu, C Zaharia, M Badeanu… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Natural plant protection products (known as biopesticides), derived from natural materials
(plants, bacterial strains, and certain minerals) that can be used to control pests, are an …

Chitosan-cellulose nanoencapsulation systems for enhancing the insecticidal activity of citronella essential oil against the cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis

SS Ibrahim, WS Abou-Elseoud, HH Elbehery… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Essential oils of plant origin could provide green and effective alternative to synthetic
insecticides. To avoid the instability and high volatility of essential oils, it is necessary to …

Natural enemy enhancement and botanical insecticide source: a review of dual use companion plants

BW Amoabeng, AC Johnson, GM Gurr - Applied entomology and zoology, 2019 - Springer
Intensive agriculture, which is associated with heavy inputs of synthetic insecticides, has
serious ecological impacts, leading to loss of vital ecosystem services including insect …

The environmental, socio-economic, and health effects of invasive alien plants: Review on Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray in Asteraceae

PK Rai, SS Lee, N Bhardwaj, KH Kim - South African journal of botany, 2023 - Elsevier
Invasive alien plants (IAPs) are recognized as major threats to the environmental and
ecological systems with great potential to disrupt global biodiversity, forestry, livelihood, and …

Bioactivity of Common Pesticidal Plants on Fall Armyworm Larvae (Spodoptera frugiperda)

K Phambala, Y Tembo, T Kasambala, VH Kabambe… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a recent
invasive pest species that has successfully established across sub-Saharan Africa where it …