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Biological nanopesticides: a greener approach towards the mosquito vector control

  • Plant-borne compounds and nanoparticles: challenges for medicine, parasitology and entomology
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Mosquitoes, being a vector for some potentially dreadful diseases, pose a considerable threat to people all around the world. The control over the growth and propagation of mosquitoes comprises conventional pesticides, insect growth regulators and other microbial control agents. However, the usage of these common chemicals and conventional pesticides eventually has a negative impact on human health as well as the environment, which therefore becomes a major concern. The lacuna allows nanotechnology to come into action and exploit nanopesticides. Nanopesticides are majorly divided into two categories—synthetic and biological. Several nanoformulations serve as a promising nanopesticide viz. nanoparticles, e.g. biologically synthesised nanoparticles through plant extracts, nanoemulsions prepared using the essential oils like neem oil and citronella oil and nanoemulsion of conventional pesticides like pyrethroids. These green approaches of synthesising nanopesticides make use of non-toxic and biologically derived compounds and hence are eco-friendly with a better target specificity. Even though there are numerous evidences to show the effectiveness of these nanopesticides, very few efforts have been made to study the possible non-target effects on other organisms prevalent in the aquatic ecosystem. This study focuses on the role of these nanopesticides towards the vector control and its eco-safe property against the other non-target species.

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    Prabhakar Mishra, Natarajan Chandrasekaran & Amitava Mukherjee

  2. Department of Zoology & Environment Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, 147002, India

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Mishra, P., Tyagi, B.K., Chandrasekaran, N. et al. Biological nanopesticides: a greener approach towards the mosquito vector control. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 10151–10163 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9640-y

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