Abstract
Nowadays, limitations in chemical crop protection products, high costs in their development and toxic residues of pesticides in raw material, poses serious concerns of risk in the environment and human health. Therefore, the last few decades the need to discover alternative methods for controlling plant pests and diseases is in great importance. Compounds derived from medicinal plant parts are generally used in traditional medicine to cure human diseases. Their potential action against plant pests and diseases is recently under researcher’s scientific study.
Highlights
Rapid expansion of human population improving quality of life as a result of economic development and per capita demand are responsible for the intensification of food needs [1,2]
Limited application of chemical crop protection products and impact of climate change is believed that it could cause decrease of world’s food production and rise of food prices [9]. Their extensive use along with other toxical residues such as heave metals has been linked to environmental pollution and undesirable immediate and nonimmediate health risk effects in human health affecting the food chain [10-18]
Biological control methods, use of botanical extracts of plant tissues and wastes of agri-food processing are under research since they contain a wide range of secondary metabolites such as polyphenols with potential antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic properties that can benefit foodproducers, consumers and environment [34-48] enhancing soil physicochemical properties and microbial community [49-53]
Summary
Rapid expansion of human population improving quality of life as a result of economic development and per capita demand are responsible for the intensification of food needs [1,2]. The last few decades the need to discover alternative methods for controlling plant pests and diseases is in great importance. Their potential action against plant pests and diseases is recently under researcher’s scientific study.
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