Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Phytochemicals as Biopesticides against the Pinewood Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus: A Review on Essential Oils and Their Volatiles

Show simple item record

dc.creator Faria, Jorge M. S.
dc.creator Barbosa, Pedro
dc.creator Vieira, Paulo
dc.creator Vicente, Cláudia S. L.
dc.creator Figueiredo, Ana Cristina
dc.creator Mota, Manuel
dc.date 2021-12-09T19:57:15Z
dc.date 2021-12-09T19:57:15Z
dc.date 2021-11-28
dc.date 2021-12-09T14:32:07Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:51:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:51:09Z
dc.identifier Faria, J.M.S.; Barbosa, P.; Vieira, P.; Vicente, C.S.L.; Figueiredo, A.C.; Mota, M. Phytochemicals as Biopesticides against the Pinewood Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus: A Review on Essential Oils and Their Volatiles. Plants 2021, 10, 2614.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/106903
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122614
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281481
dc.description The impacts of a rapidly changing environment together with the growth in global trade activities has promoted new plant pest pandemic events in forest ecosystems. The pinewood nematode (PWN), <i>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus</i>, causes strong worldwide economic and ecological impacts. Direct control is performed through trunk injection of powerful nematicides, however many of these (hemi)synthetic compounds have raised ecological and human health concerns for affecting non-target species and accumulating in food products. As sustainable alternatives, essential oils (EOs) have shown very promising results. In this work, available literature on the direct activity of EOs against PWN is reviewed, as a contribution to advance the search for safer and greener biopesticides to be used in sustainable PWD pest management strategies. For the first time, important parameters concerning the bioassays performed, the PWNs bioassayed, and the EOs used are summarized and comparatively analyzed. Ultimately, an overview of the chemical composition of the most active EOs allowed to uncover preliminary guidelines for anti-PWN EO efficiency. The analysis of important information on the volatile phytochemicals composing nematicidal EOs provides a solid basis to engineer sustainable biopesticides capable of controlling the PWN under an integrated pest management framework and contributes to improved forest health.
dc.description Published version
dc.format application/pdf
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title Phytochemicals as Biopesticides against the Pinewood Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus: A Review on Essential Oils and Their Volatiles
dc.title Plants
dc.type Article - Refereed
dc.type Text


Files in this item

Files Size Format View
plants-10-02614-v2.pdf 1.539Mb application/pdf View/Open

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse