Advances of Heterocyclic Chemistry with Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity

Dear Colleagues,

Global food safety/security will remain a worldwide concern for the next 50 years and beyond. Plant bacterial and fungal diseases have had an enormous impact on food safety/security at various stages of the food chain, from primary production to consumption. Although pesticide application has been the conventional methodology used in plant protection, frequent use of conventional chemical pesticides has resulted in problems in resistance in bacteria and fungi populations, environmental contamination, and human health. Therefore, the current paradigm of relying almost exclusively on conventional chemical pesticides for plant bacterial and fungal disease control may need to be reconsidered. In the past decade, due to the good selectivity, high activity, low dosage, and low toxicity, heterocyclic compounds show an important role in the development of novel heterocyclic pesticides. So far, more than 50 heterocyclic pesticides have been developed or even marketed. Therefore, the important position of heterocyclic chemistry in the pesticides market is supposed to remain in the following decades.

This Special Issue of Molecules invites researchers to contribute original research papers or reviews in the field of design, synthesis, bioactivity, mechanism of action, and so on of heterocyclic pesticides.

Prof. Dr. Pei Li
Guest Editor

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