Plant volatile aldehydes as natural insecticides against stored-product beetles

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Infestation by stored-product pests causes serious losses in food and feed commodities. Among possible strategies against these pests, which aim to reduce the use of synthetic insecticides, including fumigants, natural insecticides produced b

Keywords

• natural aldehydes
• beetle
• food storage
• pest
• tribolium-castaneum herbst
• sitophilus-zeamais coleoptera
• essential oil
• oxylipin metabolism
• fumigant toxicity
• rice weevil
• oryzae l.
• insects
• curculionidae
• tenebrionidae