“…Even though the production of global Chilies has significantly increased in the past 5 years (2018–2022), the crops still impacted by pests and pathogens, including whiteflies ( Hussain et al, 2022 ), thrips ( Panyasiri et al, 2022 ), broad mites ( Latha and Hunumanthraya, 2018 ), aphids ( Xiao et al, 2020 ), fruit flies ( Syamsudin et al, 2022 ), Colletotrichum ( Mongkolporn and Taylor, 2018 ), Phytophthora ( Mohammadbagheri et al, 2022 ), Fusarium ( Bashir et al, 2018 ), Xanthomonas ( Utami et al, 2022 ), and viruses ( Abirami et al, 2022 ). To address these issues, chemical pesticides have been widely used, leading to the development of pesticide resistance among pests and pathogens ( Hawkins et al, 2019 ).…”