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Essential oils from three Algerian medicinal plants (Artemisia campestris, Pulicaria arabica, and Saccocalyx satureioides) as new botanical insecticides?

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Medicinal and aromatic plants represent an outstanding source of green active ingredients for a broad range of real-world applications. In the present study, we investigated the insecticidal potential of the essential oils obtained from three medicinal and aromatic plants of economic importance in Algeria, Artemisia campestris, Pulicaria arabica, and Saccocalyx satureioides. Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to study the essential oil chemical compositions. The three essential oils were tested against a mosquito vectoring filariasis and arboviruses, i.e., Culex quinquefasciatus, a fly pest acting also as pathogens vector, Musca domestica, and an agricultural moth pest, i.e., Spodoptera littoralis, using WHO and topical application methods, respectively. The essential oil from A. campestris, containing β-pinene (15.2%), α-pinene (11.2%), myrcene (10.3%), germacrene D (9.0%) (Z)-β-ocimene (8.1%) and γ-curcumene (6.4%), showed remarkable toxicity against C. quinquefasciatus (LC50 of 45.8 mg L−1) and moderate effects (LD50 of 99.8 μg adult−1) against M. domestica. Those from P. arabica and S. satureioides, containing epi-α-cadinol (23.9%), δ-cadinene (21.1%), α-cadinol (19.8%) and germacrene D-4-ol (8.4%), and thymol (25.6%), α-terpineol (24.6%), borneol (17.4%) and p-cymene (11.4%), respectively, were more active on S. littoralis showing LD50 values of 68.9 and 61.2 μg larva−1, respectively. Based on our results, the essential oil from A. campestris may be further considered a candidate ingredient for developing botanical larvicides.

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This work was supported by the FAR 2014-2015 (Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca) of the University of Camerino. R. Pavela would like to thank the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic for the financial support of the botanical pesticide and basic substances research. Financial support for this work was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (Project MZE-RO0418). The authors also thank M’sila University (CNEPRU, Comité National d’Evaluation et de Programmation de la Recherche Universitaire) (grant no D01N01UN280120150001).

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  1. Department of Nature and Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, M’sila University, 28000, M’sila, Algeria

    Sassoui Ammar, Sarri Djamel & Sarri Madani

  2. Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, M’sila University, 28000, M’sila, Algeria

    Hendel Noui

  3. School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino via Sant’Agostino 1, 62032, Camerino, Italy

    Filippo Maggi

  4. Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STeBiCEF), University of Palermo, viale delle Scienze, Parco d’Orleans II, I-90128, Palermo, Italy

    Maurizio Bruno

  5. The BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy

    Donato Romano

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    Donato Romano

  7. Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Angelo Canale & Giovanni Benelli

  8. Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507, Prague 6,, 161 06, Ruzyne, Czech Republic

    Roman Pavela

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Ammar, S., Noui, H., Djamel, S. et al. Essential oils from three Algerian medicinal plants (Artemisia campestris, Pulicaria arabica, and Saccocalyx satureioides) as new botanical insecticides?. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 26594–26604 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09064-w

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