Natural Products in Crop Pest Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pesticide chemistry; crop protection
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Special Issue Information
The significant enhancement in crop yields over the years has been facilitated, in part, by the use of chemicals for pest control. However, as the global population continues to grow in the coming decades and resistance to conventional pesticides persists, there is an ongoing demand for the discovery of new lead compounds. Natural products (NPs), owing to their abundant biodiversity and environmentally friendly characteristics, are increasingly being explored and developed. This is evident in the numerous NP-based crop protection compounds that have emerged.
In the context of this Special Issue, our focus will be on the isolation and characterization of both known and newly discovered bioactive NPs, synthetic compounds inspired by NPs, semi-synthetic chemicals derived from NPs, and the assessment of their biological activities for potential applications in crop protection.
We invite submissions of research articles, review articles, and short communications.
Dr. Wei Yan
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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Keywords
- natural products
- bioactive metabolites
- structural elucidation
- biological evaluation
- synthesis
- semi-synthetic compounds
- pesticide
- crop protection
