Biocontrol Potential of Essential Oils in Organic Horticulture Systems
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5496
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aromatic and medicinal plants; botanical-based biopesticides; biotechnology; ecotoxicology; essential oils; micro/nanotechnologies; phytochemistry; plant protection; metabolomic
Interests: biocontrol; cytotoxicology; ecotoxicology; essential oils; natural molecules; OMICS; phytochemistry; plant protection; plant physiologist
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing awareness of sustainable and safe food production and increasingly restrictive policies for pesticide use have engendered great demand for more environmentally friendly biocontrol methods.
Plants are a vast source of bioactive substances with high added value to humankind. For the last four decades, botanical-based products, such as essential oils (EOs), have received a great deal of attention from the scientific community, corporations, and society as a whole. Currently, there is growing interest in EOs as a minimum-risk product for IPM strategies.
Several studies have emphasized EOs´ potential for plant protection, notably to control insects, mites, nematodes, mollusks, invasive plants and weeds, and phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi affecting crops and harvested cultures. EOs’ wide-ranging activity, biodegradability, and non-persistence in the environment are major advantages encouraging their use in horticultural systems. Nonetheless, further evidence concerning their effectiveness as a biocontrol agent is crucial to strengthen their application potential in real-world scenarios.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of papers substantiating the promise of exploiting EOs and their constituents as emerging biocontrol products for organic food production. The Special Issue will disseminate recent developments and promote discussion emphasizing various aspects of EOs under investigation, namely: essential oils´effectiveness in the field, factors challenging their use, novel solutions to increase their stability and release, and EOs’ potential as possible elicitors of plant defense.
Dr. Rose Marie De Sousa
Prof. Dr. Conceição Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant protection
- plant-based products
- plant secondary metabolites, aromatic and medicinal plants
- deterrence
- pest
- disease
- eco-friendly
- sustainable food production
- low-residue
