Plants as Potential Repellent Against Oryzaephilus Species
| Autor: | ABDUL, Nurul Huda, ZAKARİA, Nor Hafizah, IBRAHİM, Maizatul Akma |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 2, Issue: 3 243-268 International Journal of Life Sciences and Biotechnology |
| ISSN: | 2651-4621 |
| Popis: | Storedfood pests are a perennial problem in storage facilities and retail storeswhere they infest and contaminate on a variety of products including grainproducts, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, dried meats, and in fact, almost all plantproducts that were used as human foods. The utilization ofsynthetic pesticides as the main strategy to control food pests haslong attracted major concern dueto the residue problems and adverse effects to consumers. In view of the above,there is an increasing extensive search for plant species that areshowing insecticidal and repellent properties to eradicate these pests thatfeed on the stored products. These harmful pests include Oryzaephilus surinamensis, which is the subject of this review. This review describes the biology of O. surinamensis and summarizes on thecurrent state of the alternative methods using plant as a repellent to controlthis species and other stored product pests within the same niche. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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