The use of botanicals as pesticides: History, development and emerging challenges
Idris Z. Kiri,
Osazee Eghosa,
Haruna B. Usman
et al.
Abstract:The unrestrained use of artificial pesticides over the years has strictly affected the function and dynamics of the ecosystem. The plants are a valuable store providing natural secondary metabolites that can be used as alternative pesticides that are non- pollutive, inexhaustible, everlasting, locally available, simply accessible, environment-friendly and comparatively profitable. It is against this background that scientists have made relentlessly effort to come up with botanicals that can be used as pesticid… Show more
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