Background & Aim: Tetranychus urticae Koch is one of the most important pests of crops, ornamental and greenhouse plants in the world and, can damage to 900 plant species. Resistances to pesticides and acaricides have guided researches to introduce new methods to control T. urticae. Botanical pesticides are an important group of natural productions that are usually safer than ...

HPLC, column and thin layer chromatography guided studies led to the isolation of seven different compounds in methanolic extracts of Podophyllum hexandrum. The isolated compounds were analyzed using LC-MS and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) studies interfaced to mass spectroscopy. Isolated compounds were used successfully as chemical markers for the comparison of the twelve diffe...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0782 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Medicaments containing various botanical extracts (e.g. tea tree oil, aloe, calendula, Echinacea, propolis) with purported therapeutic benefits are used widely by patients, who often prefer alternative medicine to traditional topical and systemic pharmacological treatments. ...

Botanical compounds with insecticidal and acaricidal activities have been used in pest management with different levels of success. Toxicity of ethanolic extracts obtained from wild oregano (Lippia origanoides) and gliricidia (Gliricidia sepium) to Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) were evaluated. Mite population was collected from black bean plants growing in Urachiche Municipality, Yaracuy...