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Essential Oils in Insect Control

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Abstract

The societal claim for a friendly environmental use of pesticides today implicates to promote alternative solutions for a better and relevant using of chemicals. Because they have a broad spectrum of uses, essential oils (EOs) have many industrial applications. They are used now in plant protection and as biocide. They occupy a significant place among insect pest biocontrol agents (BCAs) and represent a consistent part within the market of botanicals used as alternative to chemicals. After phytochemical considerations, this chapter presents the wide range of activities of EOs on insect. Trends and prospects including a discussion about their advantages for an ecological friendly approach but also the factors that impede their commercial development conclude.

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Abbreviations

AOPWIN:

Atmospheric oxidation program for Microsoft Windows

BCAs:

Biocontrol agents

CAGR:

Compound annual growth rate

cAMP:

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate

CSPs:

Chemosensory proteins

EOs:

Essential oils

GABA:

Gamma-aminobutyric acid

GOBPs:

General odorant binding proteins

GS-FID:

Gas chromatography-flame ionization detector

GS-MS:

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

IPM:

Integrated pest management

LC50 :

Lethal concentration 50

LD50 :

Lethal dose 50

OBPs:

Odorant binding proteins

PPP:

Plant protection product

UIPP:

Union des industries de la protection des plantes

USD:

US dollar

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Regnault-Roger, C. (2013). Essential Oils in Insect Control. In: Ramawat, K., Mérillon, JM. (eds) Natural Products. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_181

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