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Plant secondary metabolites from Argentinean semiarid lands: bioactivity against insects

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In this report some recent advances on the studies about the interaction between plant secondary metabolites and insects are presented. Bioactivities elicited by natural products with different terpenoid skeletons, phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, as well as essential oils, are discussed. Special mention has been made to plants from the central-western semiarid area of Argentina.

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This work has been funded by grants from CONICET (PIP 02429), CYTED (Proyect IV 13), UNSL (Project 7301) and ANPCYT (PICT 10714/2002).

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Sosa, M.E., Tonn, C.E. Plant secondary metabolites from Argentinean semiarid lands: bioactivity against insects. Phytochem Rev 7, 3–24 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-006-9056-7

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