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.
Keywords
- Benefit-risk ratio
- commercialization
- essential oils
- insect control
- mechanisms of action
- monoterpenes
- phytochemistry
- regulation
- toxicity
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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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