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Golden age of insecticide research: past, present, or future?
John E. Casida,Gary B. Quistad +1 more
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Insecticide research, having passed through several Golden Ages, is now in a renaissance of integrating chemicals and biologicals for sustainable pest control with human safety.Abstract:
Insecticide research led to the first "complete" victories in combatting pests almost 50 years ago with the chlorinated hydrocarbons followed quickly by the organophosphates, methylcarbamates, and pyrethroids--all neuroactive chemicals. This Golden Age of Discovery was the source of most of our current insecticides. The challenge then became health and the environment, a Golden Age met with selective and degradable compounds. Next the focus shifted to resistance, novel biochemical targets, and new chemical approaches for pest control. The current Golden Age of Genetic Engineering has curtailed, but is unlikely to eliminate, chemical use on major crops. Insecticide research, having passed through several Golden Ages, is now in a renaissance of integrating chemicals and biologicals for sustainable pest control with human safety.read more
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Biological control of Lygus lineolaris by Peristenus spp. in strawberry
TL;DR: The insecticide regime of a farm was an important factor influencing parasitism rate, which was 5- to 6-fold higher on organic or casually sprayed farms than on intensely treated farms, though pest density under these three regimes was not significantly different.
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Development of a broad-selective immunoassay for multi-residue determination of type II pyrethroids in West Lake water
TL;DR: This immunoassay was used to detect different combinations of cypermethrin, deltamethrin and esfenvalerate spiked in West Lake water, and recoveries were between 95.6% and 103.6%, which indicated that the chosen ELISA was feasible for multi-residue analysis.
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Utility of population models to reduce uncertainty and increase value relevance in ecological risk assessments of pesticides: an example based on acute mortality data for daphnids.
Niklas Hanson,John D. Stark +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used matrix population models for three daphnid species (Ceriodaphnia dubia, Daphnia magna, and D. pulex) to reduce uncertainty and increase value relevance in the ecological risk assessment (ERA) of a pesticide (spinosad).
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Synthesis of natural nanopesticides with the origin of Eucalyptus globulus extract for pest control
TL;DR: In this article, Nanocapsules of botanical insecticides are a suitable a suitable alternative for non-target organisms, pest resistance and environmental pollution around the world, and the continued use of chemical insecticides causes toxicity to nontarget organisms.
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Effects of an environmentally-relevant mixture of pyrethroid insecticides on spontaneous activity in primary cortical networks on microelectrode arrays.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that an environmentally relevant mixture caused dose‐additive effects on spontaneous neuronal network activity in vitro, and is consistent with other in vitro and in vivo assessments of pyrethroid mixtures.
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Safer and more effective insecticides for the future
John E. Casida,Gary B. Quistad +1 more
TL;DR: The use of synthetic organic insecticides has served for the past half century as the principal means to control insect-borne diseases and minimize losses in food and fibre production from pest insect attack as mentioned in this paper.
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