Botanicals as Grain Protectants
By Y. Rajashekar, N. Bakthavatsalam, T. Shivanandappa. 2012
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Prevention of food losses during postharvest storage is of paramount economic importance. Integrated pest management is now a widely accepted strategy in pest control including postharvest infestation control which involves the use of chemical (contact/residual) insecticides along with fumigants. The use of synthetic chemical insecticides is either not permitted or used restrictively because of the residue problem and health risks to consumers. In view of the above, there is a need for plants that may provide potential alternatives to the currently used insect control agents as they constitute a rich source of bioactive molecules. Available literature indicates that plant could be source for new insecticides. Therefore, there is a great potential for a plant-derived insecticidal compounds. This paper focuses on the current state of the botanical insecticides as grain protectants and its mode of action.
Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Botanical insecticide as simple extractives for pest control (2017, background): “Botanical pesticides that inhibit feeding or disrupt insect feeding by rendering the treated materials unattractive or unpalatable (Rajashekar et al., 2012; Talukder, 2006).”
- An Overview of the Post-Harvest Grain Storage Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries (2018, background): “Different botanical pesticides have been used throughout the world and are found to be effective as grain protectants [68].”