Development and Application of Green Chemical Pesticides from Natural Sources
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 810
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant-insect interaction; pest control; insect physiology and molecular biology
Interests: resistance management; pesticide; vegetable insect pests; mode of action; detoxification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of pesticides is a common way of controlling crop diseases and insects and increasing crop yields. Natural products and their derivatives are important sources of pesticides and play crucial roles in fields such as insecticide production, bactericide development, plant growth regulation, and immune regulation. Due to their diverse sources, structures, and functions, natural products continuously provide new opportunities for pesticide research. Those products have important ecological activities in nature, playing roles as antifeedants, attractants, nematicides, fungicides, repellents, insecticides, insect growth regulators, and allelopathic agents, and can act as promising sources of novel pest control agents or biopesticides. Nowadays, natural products are not only used to confirm known pesticide targets or study their mechanisms of action but also provide a rich library of compounds that can be used to screen functional molecules based on known targets, thereby obtaining the active molecules or frameworks required for the creation of new pesticides.
This Special Issue will focus on the development and application of natural sources pesticides such as plant-derived products, microorganisms, and viruses. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the discovery of bioactive natural source compounds, innovative synthetic approaches for bioactive nature-inspired compounds, the phytochemical profiling and bioactivity screening of natural products, mechanistic investigations of the activity or resistance of natural products, and the application of natural source products for pest control. Peer-reviewed original research articles and critical reviews will be considered for inclusion.
Dr. Jinda Wang
Dr. Ran Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant-derived products
- microorganisms
- pest control
- plant disease
