New Trends in Vector and Pest Control: The Search for Safer and Greener Chemicals
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Agrochemicals and Food Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 September 2024 | Viewed by 2589
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Arthropod vectors are harmful to human well-being because they can potentially transmit pathogens to humans, livestock and plants, with vector-borne pathogens being directly or indirectly responsible for millions of human deaths every year. For example, in 2021, nearly half of the world's population was at risk of malaria, which is spread to humans by Anopheles mosquitoes, and that year, the estimated number of deaths reached roughly 600,000. Infections in plants and animals lead to important economic losses. For instance, the olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) remains the main insect pest when it comes to olive crops, causing an estimated 15% reduction in world production each year.
Although vector management has long relied on natural and synthetic insecticides, awareness of their toxicological and ecotoxicological effects is rather new, as is the search for innovative strategies to overcome the problems of resistance that result from their intensive use. This implies the development and use of control strategies that involve using fewer amounts of insecticides (e.g., autodissemination) as well as acquiring a better knowledge of their sublethal effects and behavior in situ. This also implies the discovery of new insecticides with fewer adverse effects on humans and the environment. This search for new insecticides and new targets can be carried out conventionally or by QSAR modeling and other in silico techniques.
The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together vector control operators, ecotoxicologists, toxicologists and modelers interested in finding innovative solutions for pest and vector control that are less detrimental to human health and the environment.
Authors are invited to submit original research papers, reviews and short communications.
Dr. James Devillers
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Toxics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- insecticides
- biocides
- synergists
- repellents
- product formulations
- resistance
- effects on non-target organisms
- human health
- QSAR/QSPR
- fate models
- innovative control strategy
