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Essential Oils as Insecticides

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Essential Oils as Reagents in Green Chemistry

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Abstract

This chapter presents principal techniques for determining the insecticidal activities of essential oils (EOs) after a brief introduction of the mechanism for EOs’ actions. Furthermore, applications of EOs as insecticides against various insects have been summarized with valuable remarks.

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Acknowledgement

Authors thank Prof. Chahrazed Boutekedjiret from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique Algeria for her valuable comments and discussion about EO’s as insecticides.

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  1. Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, INRA-SQPOV, UMR408, GREEN Extraction Team, Avignon, 84000, France

    Ying Li, Anne-Sylvie Fabiano-Tixier & Farid Chemat

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Li, Y., Fabiano-Tixier, AS., Chemat, F. (2014). Essential Oils as Insecticides. In: Essential Oils as Reagents in Green Chemistry. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08449-7_5

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