Natural Products in Crop Protection
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 1872
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pesticide chemistry; crop protection
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Dear Colleagues,
The tremendous increase in crop yields has been possible in part through the utilization of chemicals for pest control. However, with the growing population in the coming decades, and the continued emergence of resistance to commercial pesticides, there is a constant need to discover new lead compounds. Natural products (NPs) with rich biodiversity and ecofriendly attributes are being discovered and developed, as exemplified by the numerous NP-based crop protection compounds. Many NPs and their derivatives have been used as bactericides, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators, and elicitors of plant immunity.
In the context of this Special Issue, we will focus on the isolation and characterization of known or new bioactive NPs, synthetic compounds inspired by NPs, semisynthetic chemicals derived from NPs, and the evaluation of their biological activities for potential applications in crop protection.
Research articles, review articles, and short communications are invited.
Dr. Wei Yan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- bioactive metabolites
- structural elucidation
- biological evaluation
- synthesis
- semisynthetic compounds
- pesticide, crop protection
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