Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants. This book discusses a holistic and sustainable approach that balances effective pest management with minimizing environmental impacts, promoting biodiversity, and ensuring food safety and quality. It brings together proposals to help improve the quality of management and production of healthier foods utilizing compounds of natural origin. The authors provide a broad and diverse picture of the applications of terpenoids in plant safety and the possibilities for innovative biotechnological approaches for their extraction.
Features:
- Presents a comprehensive resource on recent advances in natural pesticides and new allelochemicals for crop protection
- Discusses natural herbicides, sustainable agriculture, and bioeconomic processes
- Explains the challenges of synthetic pesticides and their costs to human and environmental health
- Covers different aspects of natural pesticides such as their sources, development, application, and toxicity
- Helps professionals and scholars involved in chemical technology, biotechnology, and agriculture gain a thorough understanding of crop protection practices tailored to specific crop types, regional conditions, and pest pressure
This is a great reference for researchers, academics, students, and professionals involved with or interested in agriculture and the environment, pest control, environmental chemistry, biology, food science, and forest engineering.
Dr. Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira graduated in Chemistry from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. He obtained both a master's and Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the same university. From 2010 to 2014, he worked on the chemistry of natural products at the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), and from 2014 to 2018, he worked in the Postgraduate Program in Food Science and Technology at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. Since 2020, he has been a researcher for the Institutional Training Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Brazil. Currently, doing a Postdoctoral Internship in Biological Sciences at the same institution. He has published 9 books, 100 research articles, and 50 book chapters.
Prof. Leo M.L. Nollet earned his PhD in 1978 in biology from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. He is an editor and associate editor of more than 50 books. He has edited for CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group the first, second, and third editions of Food Analysis by HPLC and the Handbook of Food Analysis, a two-volume set. Dr. Nollet also edited the first, second, and third editions of the Handbook of Water Analysis and the third and fourth editions of Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment. With Fidel Toldrá, he co-edited a series of animal product-related books. Dr. Nollet has co-edited with Y. H. Hui and other colleagues several other books. With Hamir Rathore, he worked on 4 books about pesticides. In the series Food Analysis and Properties, he has edited more than 15 books. New volumes are in preparation for this series.
Dr. Ravendra Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India. He has published over 70 research papers in reputable journals, 12 book chapters in pesticide chemistry and natural products, and 4 review articles in plant chemistry. In 2018 he received the Young Scientist Award from the Society for Himalayan Action Research and Development.
Dr. Eloisa Helena de Aguiar Andrade is an Associate Researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. She has authored over 500 scientific contributions, including articles, book chapters, and books. She has experience in the field of chemistry, with an emphasis on the chemistry of natural products.
Dr. Antônio Pedro da Silva Souza Filho is a Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental. He has experience in Chemical Ecology, working mainly on allelopathy, production of agricultural biodefensives, and increased biodefensive activity of chemical substances.
