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Nematicidal Compounds from Plants

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Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture

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Current chemicals available for control of plant-parasitic nematodes are far from perfect with respect to environmental safety, mammalian toxicity, or expense (Hague and Gowen, 1987; Johnson and Feldmesser, 1987; Thomason, 1987). During the past decade, several agriculturally important nematicides have been deregistered or restricted in use because of concern about groundwater contamination or adverse effects on human health. Other nematicides face the possibility of similar restrictions. Because annual losses to agricultural productivity induced by plant-parasitic nematodes are at least 6 billion dollars in the U.S. and 77 billion dollars in the world (Sasser and Freckman, 1987), the need to develop safe chemical control agents is acute. Unfortunately, only about 0.2% of the latter figure is being spent on plant nematology research, teaching, and extension (Sasser and Freckman, 1987).

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