Open AccessNatural Products in Crop Protection
Author(s) -
C. Descoins
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.1998.29
Subject(s) - crop protection , crop , natural (archaeology) , field crop , microbiology and biotechnology , agroforestry , business , biology , agronomy , paleontology
Nature is a rich source of products with interesting and useful biological activity. In the field of crop protection, natural products and analogues have successfully been introduced to the market to control insect pests, plant diseases, and weeds. The search for new natural products with promising activity continues in academia and in industry to initiate and to foster novel, ecologically and economically sound crop-protection solutions.