Phytochemicals Compounds as Alternative for Insect and Mites Pest Management in Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 582
Special Issue Editors
Interests: entomology; insecticide activity; insectistatic activity; plant extracts; natural compounds; crop management
Interests: phyto-pathology; bicocontrol; coating; formulation; postharvest
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In crop production, every year, there are losses due to insect pests. In order to manage these organisms, synthetic chemical pesticides are used, which cause serious environmental damage to the air, soil, and water. However, there are many insect pest management alternatives; thus, it is necessary to research these insects to maintain their populations below the economic threshold.
Such management strategies include crop rotation, biocontrol, the use of botanical extracts, and natural products. In this sense, there are many secondary metabolites that showed insecticidal and insectistatic activities against many insect pests and other arthropods like mites, and some of these compounds are phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, alkaloids, glycosides, and terpenoids, among others. This Special Issue aims to increase the knowledge about the use of phytochemical compounds as management alternatives against insect and mite pests in horticultural crops.
Dr. Miguel Angel Ramos-López
Dr. Lourdes Soto-Muñoz
Dr. Rodolfo Figueroa Brito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- entomology
- pest control
- plant–insect interaction
- insecticide activity
- pest management
- biological control
- horticultural crop protection
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