Natural Products as Effective Biopesticides and Antiprotozoal Agents
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 33981
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioactive natural products; terpenoids; phenolics; saponins; alkaloids; NMR; LC-MS; GC-MS
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Dear Colleagues,
There is currently a need to identify new pest control active agents which exhibit efficient activity as well as increased safety, and this need has accentuated the extremely rich resource of natural products. “Biopesticides” can be defined as an agent that destroys or controls harmful organisms or diseases, or that is able to protect plants or plant products during the different phases of production, conservation storage, and transport. Biopesticides can come in different forms: For example, microorganisms, natural substances, or the so called plant-incorporated protectants (PIPs). The strict relationship that exists between some protozoal diseases and the possibility to, in part, control the diffusion of these illnesses by pest control agents suggests a further area of interest of biopesticide and, specifically, of naturally derived antiprotozoal agents.
This Special Issue aims to attract significant contribution describing the discovery, identification, or study of the molecular mode of action of active natural agents as biopesticide and antiprotozoal agents. Particularly appreciated will be contribution describing in detail new chemical structures by the means of MS and NMR approaches. Articles describing the activity of natural mixtures, such as plant extracts, will be welcomed, but with mandatory accurate characterization by chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques. Papers related to the use of in vitro and in vivo assays for the demonstration of activity and efficacy of biopesticides and antitrypanosomal agents, as well as papers focusing on the identification of mode of action, will be appreciated.
Dr. Stefano Dall'Acqua
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- biopesticides
- antiprotozoal
- terpenoids
- Phenolics
- alkaloids
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