Phytochemicals for Pest Control

About this book

This volume identifies and describes biologically active natural products which can be used to manage a wide variety of pests, including insects, weeds, and fungi. The book presents structure-activity studies of the pest control agents and evaluates active proteins and peptides affecting insects. It also covers the identification of new plant products with unique biological properties.

Contents

1. New Applications for Phytochemical Pest-Control Agents; IDENTIFICATION AND UTILIZATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS; 2. Strategy for the Isolation and Analysis of Antifungal, Molluscicidal, and Larvicidal Agents from Tropical Plants; 3. Tropical Timber Species as Sources of Botanical Insecticides; 4. Efficacy of Botanicals from the Meliaceae and Piperaceae; 5. Botanicals from the Piperaceae and Meliaceae of the American Neotropics: Phytochemistry; 6. Phylogenetic Links in Plant Defense Systems: Lignans, Isoflavonoids, and Their Reductases; 7. Potent Insecticidal Activity of Ginkgo biloba Derived Trilactone Terpenes Against Nilaparvata lugens; NOVEL NATURAL PRODUCTS WITH APPLICATIONS FOR PEST MANAGEMENT; 8. Mechanisms for the Initiation of Pathogenesis; 9. Annonaceous Acetogenins as New Natural Pesticides: Recent Progress; 10. Novel Pesticidal Substances from the Entomopathogenic Nematode-Bacterium Complex; 11. Physical and Biological Properties of the Spinosyns: Novel Macrolide Pest-Control Agents from Fermentation; 12. Phytoalexins from Brassicas: Overcoming Plants' Defenses; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY STUDIES OF NATURAL-PRODUCT PEST-CONTROL AGENTS; 13. Natural Products as Leads in Structural Modification Studies Yielding New Agrochemicals; 14. Development of Synthetic Pyrethroids with Emphasis on Stereochemical Aspects; 15. Structure-Activity Relationships for Insecticidal Pyrroles; 16. Structure-Activity Study and Conformational Analysis of RH-5992, the First Commercialized Nonsteroidal Ecdysone Agonist; 17. Structure-Activity Relationships of the Avermectins and Milbemycins; 18. A New Biorational Approach to the Development of Herbicides from Fungal Metabolites; 19. Chemistry and Fungicidal Activity of Soraphen Derivatives; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES AFFECTING INSECTS; 20. Bombyx Prothoracicotropic Hormone: Chemistry and Biology; 21. Active Conformation and Mimetic Analog Development for the Pyrokinin-PBAN-Diapause-Pupariation and Myosuppressin Insect Neuropeptide Families; 22. Neuropeptide Biosynthesis: Possible Molecular Targets for the Control of Insect Pests; 23. Proteolytic Activity in Lepidopterans: Potential for Regulatory Agent Development; 24. Tyrosinase Inhibitors from Plants; 25. Comparative Molecular and Pharmacological Properties of Cholinergic Receptors in Insects and Mammals; 26. Philanthotoxins and the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

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