Current Status of Botanical Pesticides for Crop Protection

Use of Botanical Pesticides in Modern Plant Protection

The European Union has made very clear political decisions to increase environmental awareness. A Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides was launched by the Commission of the European Communities in 2006. It was decided to minimize the hazards and risks to health and the environment caused by the use of plant protection products. In 2009, the European Parliament accepted a new f...

Current Status of Plant Products as Botanical Pesticides in storage pest management

The increasing concern over the level of pesticide residues in food has encouraged researchers to look for alternatives of synthetic pesticides. Their indiscriminate use has led to the development of resistant strains of pests as well as different environmental and human health problems. Recently, in different parts of the world, attention has been paid towards exploitation of higher plant prod...

Botanical Pesticides: Current Challenges and Reverse Pharmacological Approach for Future Discoveries

In ancient culture and in different parts of world, there exist empirical knowledge of the use of plants for pest control for thousands of years (approx. 1500 BC), for example rotenone in east Asia and south America, neem in India, sabadilla in central and south America, and pyrethrin in Persia (Iran). Subsequently, botanical insecticides were introduced in prominent continents like Europe and ...

Nano-formulations: High Definition Liquid Engineering of Pesticides for Advanced Crop Protection in Agriculture

Nanogels may be defined as nano-sized hydrogel systems which are highly cross linked systems in nature involving polymer systems, which are either co-polymerized or monomeric [4]. Sudden outbreak in the field of nanotechnology have introduced the need for developing nanogel systems which proven their potential to deliver active ingredients in controlled, sustained and targetable manner. With th...

Reviews of Current Botanical Literature.