Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compounds

✍ Scribed by Mahendra Rai and María Cecilia Carpinella (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 515
• Series: Advances in Phytomedicine 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This timely book provides an overview of natural products/botanicals used for the management of insect-pest and diseases. It will help readers to update and widen their knowledge about natural products and their bio-activities against plant pathogens. The volume explores activity, chemistry, toxicity and geographic distribution of plants. Discussions concerning the methodology used for the detection of active principles, their mode of action and commercial prospects are of utmost importance and worthy of note. * Focuses on recent achievements in natural bio-actives * Global coverage of natural products / plants * Targets the most important issues of natural botanicals/ biocides * Includes innovative ideas with lucid explanations * Contains specialized chapters, such as, natural control of multi-drug resistant organisms, anti-salmonella agents, natural house-dust-mite control agents, and naturally occurring anti-insect proteins, etc. * Covers research on bioactives: From Lab to Field and Field to Market * Includes eco-friendly and economically viable herbal technology

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface to the Series
Pages vii-ix
Maurice M. Iwu

Preface
Pages xi-xii
Mahendra Rai, Maria Cecilia Carpinella

Chapter 1 Natural compounds as antioxidant and molting inhibitors can play a role as a model for search of new botanical pesticides Review Article
Pages 1-27
Carlos L Céspedes A, J Guillermo Avila, J Camilo Marin, Mariana Domínguez L, Patricio Torres, Eduardo Aranda

Chapter 2 Pesticides based on plant essential oils: from traditional practice to commercialization Review Article
Pages 29-44
Murray B Isman, Cristina M Machial

Chapter 3 Natural substrates and inhibitors of multidrug resistant pumps (MDRs) redefine the plant antimicrobials Review Article
Pages 45-59
George P Tegos

Chapter 4 New concept to search for alternate insect control agents from plants Review Article
Pages 61-80
Isao Kubo

Chapter 5 Role of Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae) for the control of insects and acari: present status and future prospects Review Article
Pages 81-123
María C Carpinella, María T Defagó, Graciela Valladares, Sara M Palacios

Chapter 6 Bioactivity of fabaceous plants against food-borne and plant pathogens: potentials and limitations Review Article
Pages 125-138
Deepak Acharya, Aniket Gade, Mahendra Rai

Chapter 7 Screening of plants against fungi affecting crops and stored foods Review Article
Pages 139-169
Olívia C Matos, Cândido P Ricardo

Chapter 8 Opportunities and potentials of botanical extracts and products for management of insect pests in cruciferous vegetables Review Article
Pages 171-197
Tong-Xian Liu, Han-Hong Xu, Wan-Chun Luo

Chapter 9 The potential for using neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) extracts for pine weevil management in temperate forestry Review Article
Pages 199-220
Jonathan R.M. Thacker, Wendy J. Bryan, Robin H.C. Strang, Stuart Heritage

Chapter 10 Plant allelochemicals in thrips control strategies Review Article
Pages 221-249
Elisabeth H Koschier

Chapter 11 Importance of plant secondary metabolites for protection against insects and microbial infections Review Article
Pages 251-268
Michael Wink

Chapter 12 Naturally occurring house dust mites control agents: development and commercialization Review Article
Pages 269-289
Young-Joon Ahn, Soon-Il Kim, Hyun-Kyung Kim, Jun-Hyung Tak

Chapter 13 The search for plant-derived compounds with antifeedant activity Review Article
Pages 291-324
Monique S.J. Simmonds

Chapter 14 An overview of the antimicrobial properties of Mexican medicinal plants Review Article
Pages 325-377
Diana Jasso de Rodríguez, José Luis Angulo-Sánchez, Francisco Daniel Hernández-Castillo

Chapter 15 Promissory botanical repellents/deterrents for managing two key tropical insect pests, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and the mahogany shootborer Hypsipyla grandella Review Article
Pages 379-403
Luko Hilje, Gerardo A Mora

Chapter 16 Naturally occurring anti-insect proteins: current status and future aspects Review Article
Pages 405-422
Tzi Bun Ng

Chapter 17 Antifungal natural products: assays and applications Review Article
Pages 423-467
Doris Engelmeier, Franz Hadacek

Contributors
Pages 469-471

Subject Index
Pages 473-502