Short description:

Discusses natural pesticides and allelochemicals as a holistic and sustainable approach that balances effective pest management with minimizing environmental impacts, promoting biodiversity, and ensuring food safety and quality. It presents ideas for improving the quality of management and production of healthier foods with allelochemicals.

Long description:

Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants. This book discusses a holistic and sustainable approach that balances effective pest management with minimizing environmental impacts, promoting biodiversity, and ensuring food safety and quality. It brings together proposals to help improve the quality of management and production of healthier foods utilizing compounds of natural origin. The authors provide a broad and diverse picture of the applications of terpenoids in plant safety and the possibilities for innovative biotechnological approaches for their extraction.

Features:

• Presents a comprehensive resource on recent advances in natural pesticides and new allelochemicals for crop protection


• Discusses natural herbicides, sustainable agriculture, and bioeconomic processes


• Explains the challenges of synthetic pesticides and their costs to human and environmental health


• Covers different aspects of natural pesticides such as their sources, development, application, and toxicity


• Helps professionals and scholars involved in chemical technology, biotechnology, and agriculture gain a thorough understanding of crop protection practices tailored to specific crop types, regional conditions, and pest pressure

This is a great reference for researchers, academics, students, and professionals involved with or interested in agriculture and the environment, pest control, environmental chemistry, biology, food science, and forest engineering.

Table of Contents:

 Section 1: Pest Management?Sustainability Versus Unsustainability?Allelochemicals.  1. Synthetic Pesticides and Sustainable Food Products.  2. Toxicity of Chemical and Biological Plant Protection Products to Agriculture.  3. Effect of Pesticides on Environment and Health.  4. Natural and Synthetic Chemical Products: Protection and Safety, Toxicity in Crops.  5. Allelochemicals and Signaling Compounds in the Plant Kingdom: Interactions and Functions.  6. Pest Management in Agriculture: Chemical and Biological Methods.  Section 2: Essential Oils and Allelochemicals.  7. Allelochemical Approaches and Phytotoxic Potential of Essential Oils.  8. Essential Oils as Potential Integrated Pest Management Strategies.  9. Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils: Uses and Applications Against Plant Pathogens.  Section 3: Pesticides Based on Natural Products.  10. High-Throughput Screening to Detect Natural Compounds with Pesticidal Properties.  11. Microbe-Based Pesticides: Promising Alternative to Chemical Pesticides.  12. Phenylpropanoids as Potential Natural Pesticides.  13. Terpenes and Terpenoids: Potential Alternatives for the Control of Weeds.  14. Traditional Knowledge and the Development of Botanical Biocides in Brazil for the Control of Aedes aegypti.  15. Azadirachtin from Neem (Azadirachta indica): Efficacy and Mechanisms Against Insects and Diseases.  Section 4: Natural Herbicides.  16. Terpenes and Terpenoids as a Sustainable Alternative for Weed Control.  17. Microbial Herbicides.  18. Fungal Biopesticides and Their Uses for Control of Insect Pests and Diseases.  19. Allelopathy: A Green Sustainable Weed Management Approach.  Section 5: Seaweeds and Vermicompost.  20. Marine Products: Key Source for Novel Pesticidal Agents.  21. Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Impact of Vermicompost on Soil Health and Ornamental Plant Production.