Target and non-target toxicity of fern extracts against mosquito vectors and beneficial aquatic organisms

Kamaraj, Chinnaperumal; Deepak, Paramasivam; Karthi, Sengodan; Dhayalan, Arul; Aiswarya, Dilipkumar; Amutha, Vadivel; Vimalkumar, Elangovan; Mathivanan, D.; Suseem, S.R.; Muthu-Pandian, Chanthini Kanagaraj; Senthil‐Nathan, Sengottayan; Perumal, Pachiappan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.05.062

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“…Stephensi (Kamaraj et al, 2018). The seed oil extract of Acacia nilotica possessed robust larvicidal action against major mosquito vectors (Vivekanandhan et al, 2018a).…”

Section: Biological Management Of Mosquitoesmentioning

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A Review of Resistance Mechanisms of Synthetic Insecticides and Botanicals, Phytochemicals, and Essential Oils as Alternative Larvicidal Agents Against Mosquitoes

Senthil‐Nathan

2020

Front. Physiol.

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Mosquitoes are a serious threat to the society, acting as vector to several dreadful diseases. Mosquito management programes profoundly depend on the routine of chemical insecticides that subsequently lead to the expansion of resistance midst the vectors, along with other problems such as environmental pollution, bio magnification, and adversely affecting the quality of public and animal health, worldwide. The worldwide risk of insect vector transmitted diseases, with their associated illness and mortality, emphasizes the need for effective mosquitocides. Hence there is an immediate necessity to develop new eco-friendly pesticides. As a result, numerous investigators have worked on the development of eco-friendly effective mosquitocidal compounds of plant origin. These products have a cumulative advantage of being cost-effective, environmentally benign, biodegradable, and safe to non-target organisms. This review aims at describing the current state of research on behavioral, physiological, and biochemical effects of plant derived compounds with larvicidal effects on mosquitoes. The mode of physiological and biochemical action of known compounds derived from various plant families as well as the potential of plant secondary metabolites, plant extracts, and also the essential oils (EO), as mosquitocidal agents are discussed. This review clearly indicates that the application of vegetal-based compounds as mosquito control proxies can serve as alternative biocontrol methods in mosquito management programes.

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“…Stephensi (Kamaraj et al, 2018). The seed oil extract of Acacia nilotica possessed robust larvicidal action against major mosquito vectors (Vivekanandhan et al, 2018a).…”

Section: Biological Management Of Mosquitoesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Resistance Mechanisms of Synthetic Insecticides and Botanicals, Phytochemicals, and Essential Oils as Alternative Larvicidal Agents Against Mosquitoes

Senthil‐Nathan

2020

Front. Physiol.

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“…Extracts obtained from different parts of various fern species revealed important antioxidant and antibacterial activities [ 48 ], insecticidal [ 160 , 161 ], anti-inflammatory, analgesic [ 45 , 162 ], neuroameliorative properties [ 163 ] or even applications as an antiviral agent against SARS-CoV coronavirus [ 164 ]. The richness and variation of phytocomponents in the different fern species strongly supports their evaluation for different biomedical applications.…”

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Application of Polypodiopsida Class in Nanotechnology–Potential towards Development of More Effective Bioactive Solutions

Fierăscu

Ungureanu

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Antioxidants

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The area of phytosynthesized nanomaterials is rapidly developing, with numerous studies being published yearly. The use of plant extracts is an alternative method to reduce the toxic potential of the nanomaterials and the interest in obtaining phytosynthesized nanoparticles is usually directed towards accessible and common plant species, ferns not being explored to their real potential in this field. The developed nanoparticles could benefit from their superior antimicrobial and antioxidant properties (compared with the nanoparticles obtained by other routes), thus proposing an important alternative against health care-associated and drug-resistant infections, as well as in other types of applications. The present review aims to summarize the explored application of ferns in nanotechnology and related areas, as well as the current bottlenecks and future perspectives, as emerging from the literature data.

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“…Cypermethrin is a neurotoxic chemical insecticide with a low LD 50 10-13,26 that affects the nervous, immune, and reproductive systems of humans [10][11]13 . Much safer than cypermethrin, C. verum and C. cassia EOs as well as cinnamaldehyde provided a high toxicity against mosquitoes but are non-toxic to humans, other mammals, or bene cial insects [19][20]60 . Furthermore, they are easily degraded in the environment, and they have already been used for ages by Asian people as an anti-microbial agent in their local medicine [45][46][47][48] .…”

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“…They are highly promising as safe alternatives to chemical insecticides [15][16][17][18][19] . EOs are safe for human health and the environment, as they have been declared to be low-risk active substances by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [20][21][22] .…”

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Improved adulticidal activity against Aedes aegypti (L.), and Aedes albopictus (Skuse), from synergy between Cinnamomum spp. essential oils

Aungtikun

Soonwera

2020

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Improved natural adulticidal agents against mosquito vectors are in urgent need, and essential oils from Cinnamomum plants can assume this role quite readily. Cinnamomum verum, C. cassia, and C. loureiroi essential oils (EOs) were extracted from the barks and evaluated for their chemical composition by GC-MS. The major constituent of the three EOs was cinnamaldehyde. WHO susceptibility tests on individual and combined EOs as well as cinnamaldehyde were conducted against female adults of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. All EO combinations exhibited a synergistic effect, manifesting a higher toxicity, with a synergistic value ranging from 2.9-6.7. Their increasing mortality value was improved between 16.0 to 41.7%. The highest synergistic effect was achieved by an EO combination of 0.5% C. cassia + 0.5% C. loureiroi, while the highest insecticidal activity was achieved by 2.5% C. verum + 2.5% C. cassia and 1% cinnamaldehyde, with a knockdown and mortality rate of 100% and a KT50 between 0.7-2.1 min. This combination was more toxic to both mosquito species than 1% w/v cypermethrin. These findings demonstrate that cinnamaldehyde and synergistic combinations of C. verum + C. cassia EOs and C. cassia + C. loureiroi EOs have a high insecticidal efficacy against Aedes populations.

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Target and non-target toxicity of fern extracts against mosquito vectors and beneficial aquatic organisms

Cited by 40 publications

References 51 publications

A Review of Resistance Mechanisms of Synthetic Insecticides and Botanicals, Phytochemicals, and Essential Oils as Alternative Larvicidal Agents Against Mosquitoes

A Review of Resistance Mechanisms of Synthetic Insecticides and Botanicals, Phytochemicals, and Essential Oils as Alternative Larvicidal Agents Against Mosquitoes

Application of Polypodiopsida Class in Nanotechnology–Potential towards Development of More Effective Bioactive Solutions

Improved adulticidal activity against Aedes aegypti (L.), and Aedes albopictus (Skuse), from synergy between Cinnamomum spp. essential oils

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