History, presence and perspective of using plant extracts as commercial botanical insecticides and farm products for protection against insects - a review

Roman Pavela
Additional contact information
Roman Pavela: Department of Secondary Plant Metabolites in Crop Protection, Division of Crop Protection and Plant Health, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Plant Protection Science, 2016, vol. 52, issue 4, 229-241

Abstract: Botanical insecticides keep attracting more attention from environmental and small farmers worldwide as they are considered as a suitable alternative to synthetic insecticides. The use of secondary metabolites in a defensive manner isolated from plants is a tradition more than 3000 years old. However, despite current intensive research, the assortment of suitable commercial products is very limited and insufficient in view of the global rise in the demand for biopesticides. Farm products as well as new basic substances offer an important perspective of being widely used in the protection against harmful insects due to their multiple undoubted benefits. These benefits, which are also drawbacks of botanical insecticides, as well as their history in addition to their presence and perspective are critically reviewed in this paper.

Keywords: medicinal plants; essential oils; Azadirachta; Pyrethrum; mechanism of action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://pps.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/31/2016-PPS.html (text/html)
http://pps.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/31/2016-PPS.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:caa:jnlpps:v:52:y:2016:i:4:id:31-2016-pps

DOI: 10.17221/31/2016-PPS

Access Statistics for this article

Plant Protection Science is currently edited by Ing. Eva Karská, (Executive Editor PPS)

More articles in Plant Protection Science from Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().