Prospective Bioactive Compounds from Vernonia amygdalina, Lippia javanica, Dysphania ambrosioides and Tithonia diversifolia in Controlling Legume Insect Pests
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50998#.VFHTtVfHRK0 Author(s) Regina W. Mwanauta , Kelvin A. Mtei , Patrick A. Ndakidemi Affiliation(s) School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology,Arusha, Tanzania . ABSTRACT Synthetic insecticides are widely known to control insect pest, but due to high operational cost, environmental pollution, toxicity to humans, harmful effect on non-target organisms and the development of insect resistance to this products, have created the need for developing alternative such as those involving the use of botanical pesticides to control insect pest. Bioactive compounds d...