Abstract
The fundamental idea of IPM is to put nature?s own regulatory mechanisms to maximum use in order to prevent damage, which is in the best interest of manufacturers, society at large and the environment. However, Haines (2000) assessed stored products IPM still insufficiently developed at the end of the 20th century. Support to IPM development in stored agricultural products is the use of natural compounds to control rodent pests. One of such compounds is cellulose, whose mode of action differs from the modes of other rodenticide active ingredients. As resistance to I and II generation anticoagulant rodenticides has been reported worldwide, we have introduced for the first time anywhere in the world a rodenticide based on Se (0.1% sodium selenite) with a mode of action based on the replacement of SH groups of functional enzymes with SS groups. We also tested products based on vitamin D3 with a known mechanism of action. The new Se-based products achieved good efficacy against rat (91.10 % and 87.50 %) and mouse (97.60% and 98.40%), and cellulose-based product against mouse (91.66%), compared to products based on vitamin D3 in rat (90.00% and 90.30%) and mouse control (98.60% and 98.2%), bromadiolone in rat (93.80% and 90.7%) and mouse control (92.86% and 91.9%) and brodifacoum in mouse control (97.06%). The products based on Se, vitamin D3 and cellulose have good toxicological and ecological properties and the fact that there have been no known cases of resistance make them recommendable for use against rodents in storage facilities.
Highlights
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a complex approach to agriculturalM.Vukša, G
The new Se-based products achieved good efficacy against rat (91.10 % and 87.50 %) and mouse (97.60% and 98.40%), and cellulose-based product against mouse (91.66%), compared to products based on vitamin D3 in rat (90.00% and 90.30%) and mouse control (98.60% and 98.2%), bromadiolone in rat (93.80% and 90.7%) and mouse control (92.86% and 91.9%) and brodifacoum in mouse control (97.06%)
Several methods are currently available in agricultural storage facilities for controlling or reducing potential damage by rodents, but IPM programmes are still insufficiently developed Haines (2000), Spragins (2006)
Summary
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a complex approach to agriculturalM.Vukša, G. Integrated pest management (IPM) is a complex approach to agricultural. Among other methods, the use of natural products to prevent damage. Several methods are currently available in agricultural storage facilities for controlling or reducing potential damage by rodents, but IPM programmes are still insufficiently developed Haines (2000), Spragins (2006). Anticoagulant products have been used to protect stored agricultural products for many years but resistance to them, especially to first generation anti-coagulants and increasingly to bromadiolone, has been reported worldwide. The Rodent Resistance Action Committee (RRAC) has been set up to monitor the issue. Rodents are known to be able to develop resistance to some newly-designed anticoagualants, as well as cross-resistance to old and new compounds Lund (1984), Graves (1995), Myllymaki, (1995), Thijssen (1995)
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