Botanical Pesticides

Overview

The world's foremost source of reference to internationally published botanical pesticides research.

Botanical Pesticides Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research. Derived from the CAB Abstracts database, Botanical Pesticides Abstracts provides you with the latest information on antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal, nematicidal, antiparasitic (anthelmintic/antiprotozoal), and herbicidal plant compounds of medical, veterinary and agricultural importance, including their isolation, composition and activity. Coverage includes studies on neem.

Each week, Botanical Pesticides Abstracts delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books about botanical pesticides.

Botanical Pesticides Abstracts includes a fully searchable backfile to 1984. With over 42,000 research summaries and over 3,700 records added to the database each year, Botanical Pesticides brings a wealth of current research to your fingertips!

Botanical Pesticides Abstracts is updated weekly online.

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Isolation
Extraction and purification of constituents of all kinds of plants (such as Azadirachta indica (neem), Melia azedarach, Derris spp., Tanacetum cinerariifolium (pyrethrum), Schoenocaulon officinale, Ryania speciosa, Quassia spp.), including compounds such as azadirachtin, nimbin and other neem extracts, pyrethrins, rotenone and other rotenoids, quassin, ryanodine, dehdroryanodine and allelopathins.


Chemistry and formulations
Chemical structure of active plant extracts; commercial formulations such as Azatin and NeemAzal.

Mode of action
Physiological and biochemical mechanisms of action on all kinds of organisms.


Effects on target and non-target organisms

• Toxicity to and sublethal effects on all kinds of organisms, including target pests, disease vectors and diseases of man, domesticated animals and crops, and decay organisms of all kinds of stored animal or plant products
   
• Unwanted side effects on man, crops and animals under protection, and other beneficial organisms, such as biological control agents

Insecticidal properties
Activity against:

• Insect vectors of human and animal diseases, including Anopheles, Culex, Aedes spp. which carry the organisms causing diseases, such as malaria (Plasmodium spp.), filariasis, and dengue
• Ectoparasites, such as fleas
• Insects of significance to public health, such as cockroaches
• Insect pests of crops and stored products including the vectors of plant diseases, such as aphids (Aphidoidea)

Acaricidal properties
Activity against:

• Ectoparasites such as ticks
• Mites such as Tetranychus spp. attacking economically important plants

Molluscicidal properties
Activity against:

• Snails (such as Biomphalaria, Bulinus, and Lymnaea) which act as intermediate hosts of the organisms causing diseases such as schistosomiasis (Schistosoma spp.) and fascioliasis (Fasciola spp.)
• Slug and snail pests of crops

Anthelmintic and nematicidal properties
Activity against:

• Parasites such as Schistosoma spp. (causing schistosomiasis), and Haemonchus spp.
• Plant parasitic nematodes such as Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
• The test organism Caenorhabditis elegans

Antiviral properties
Activity against:

• Human and animal viruses, such as the herpes simplex viruses, hepatitis viruses, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Plant viruses such as the tomato spotted wilt virus

Antiprotozoal properties
Activity against protozoa such as Plasmodium spp. (causing malaria), Leishmania spp. (causing leishmaniasis), Entamoeba histolytica (causing amoebiasis) and Trypanosoma spp. (causing trypanosomiasis)


Antifungal and fungicidal properties
Activity against:

• Dermatophytes (such as Trichophyton, Epidermophyton and Microsporum
• Pathogenic yeasts (such as Candida spp.)
• Fungi causing diseases such as aspergillosis (Aspergillus spp.)
• Toxinogenic fungi which produce mycotoxins associated with poisoning of food and feed
• Fungal pathogens of crops such as Botrytis cinerea

Antibacterial properties
Activity against:

• Human and animal pathogens, such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Klebsiella peumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Staphylococcus aureus
• Plant pathogenic bacteria such as Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. malvacearum
• Toxinogenic bacteria

Herbicidal and algicidal properties, allelopathins
Activity against weeds of all kinds, including algae, parasitic and poisonous plants.


Residues and environmental effects
Residues in products and in the environment and their effects on the environment.


Practical application
Recommended use, dosages and efficiency in the field or surgery.

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