The Annonaceous acetogenins are promising new antitumor and pesticidal agents that are
found only in the plant family Annonaceae. Chemically, they are derivatives of long-chain …

Extracts of paw paw (Asimina triloba, Annonaceae) are among the most potent of the 3500
species of higher plants screened for bioactive compounds in our laboratories at Purdue …

Given the problems that synthetic insecticides cause to the environment as well as to human
health, there has been an up surging on research for plant extracts for insect control …

The evolution of resistance of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus to synthetic acaricides
has given rise to the need for new scientific investigations on alternative ways to control this …

Irrespective of the presence of cytotoxic acetogenins and styryl‐lactones in the genus
Goniothalamus, only 22 species in the genus Goniothalamus, out of 160 species (13.7%) …

Studies on the Annonaceous acetogenins began after the first cytotoxic acetogenin, uvaricin,
was isolated in 1982. This attractive finding made many medicinal and natural product …

In recent decades, annonaceous acetogenins have become highly studied plant secondary
metabolites in terms of their isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biological evaluation …

Termites (Isoptera), which are a suborder of the cockroaches, are the oldest eusocial insects
[1–3]. It is assumed that they diverged from the Cryptocercoidae, woodfeeding cockroaches …

A utilização de plantas para o controle de insetos tem aumentado em todo o mundo. Isto
ocorre porque os inseticidas vegetais apresentam moléculas biodegradáveis, são menos …

Annonaceous acetogenins represent a new class of bioactive compounds whose primary
mode of action is the inhibition of NADH− ubiquinone oxidoreductase. Given the potential …