BIOPESTICIDES
Bilge
ŜENER*, Ŭlkay ORHAN*
*Department
of Pharmacognosy,Faculty of pharmacy,Gazi university,06330
Ankara,Turkey
Correspondense
Summery:
A pesticide is any compound or formulation used to control
pests which contains active ingredients and other substances
to aid its delivery to target organisms and hence minimize
pests.The major types of pesticides are herbicides, fungicides,
rodenticides, molluscicides, soil bacteriostans, disinfectants,
and living organisms with pesticidal activty.
Pesticides are widely used in agriculture and have a tremendous
impact on the production of food and fibres.They are important
to the economy in terms of agricultural production, structure
preservation and control of disease vectors. Biopesticides
are often effective in very small quantities and decompose
quickly, thereby resulting in lower exposures and largely
avoiding the pollution problems caused by conventional
pesticides.In addition to general information about pesticides;
properties,chemistry and classification of biopesticides
are also given in this review.
Key
words:
Biopesticide, Pesticide, Pest.
