Biology and Medicine

Abstract

Bright Future with Nematicidal Phytochemicals

Mohamed S Khalil

The environmental pollution with chemical pesticides became a serious problem in pest control systems around the world. Chemical nematicides are part of the environmental problems, and in the same time, are the basic and the first defense line utilize against phytoparasitic nematodes. Thus it was necessary to search about alternative sources could be used in integrated nematode management programs. Using plant parts in pest management is one of the oldest options for the human such as, chrysanthemum spp, Derris elliptical and Ryania speciosa. Nowadays, various phytochemicals that extracted from different plant parts such as alkaloids, glycosides, limonoids, quassinoids and even phenolics became a new and/or promising tools to use as fungicides, bactericides and nematicides.