PJB-2023-325
A mechanistic overview of Plant-based Nanomaterials as insecticidal agents. A comprehensive review
Sana Zarish
Abstract
Insect pests cause crucial diseases in plants and cause a 20% to 40% loss in crops every year. Fungi also cause diseases in crops such as rice, whose yield decreased between 10 and 35%. This review article analyses the use of nanoparticles for insect pest control that prove harmful to the environment and agricultural fields and also gives a systematic means of the use of nanotechnology and various classification of nanoparticles that prove effective for the control of insects. Aside from the nanoparticles that are used as carriers of a large classification of active elements, such as pheromones, few nanoparticles could be effectively used alone as an insecticidal agent. Furthermore, some types of nanoparticles were synthesized from natural material, making them “green” substitutes for the conventional insect pest control agent. Comprehensive studies had led to testing the toxicity of nanoparticles against pests (arthropods or mosquitoes). The definite knowledge of the nature of the action of nanoparticles is confined as opposed to that of arthropods. Gold nanoparticles have the property of inhibiting trypsin and contribute to disturbing the growth and reproductive stages. The findings also show that the nanoparticles are more suitable due to the intracellular procedure, easy scale-up, and downstream processing. The results from the reviewed journals showed that nanoscience is the most superficial, providing the basic principles of molecular formation and structure with one dimension.
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