Alternatives to conventional pesticides
Channel: Fantastic Studies and Where to Find Them
Date: 2022-02-18

Would you like your apple with some pesticides on it? The obvious answer is no, and yet… Consider it, would you buy an apple with irregular dents and brownish spots or would you rather pick the glossy red, perfectly round and spotless one? Is this really the choice we face? Are pesticides always bad or are there safe and environment friendly alternatives? Kumar and co-authors (2021) give us an overview [1].

REFERENCES
[1] Kumar et al. (2021), An overview of some biopesticides and their importance in plant protection for commercial acceptance, https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10061185

[2] US EPA, What are biopesticides?, https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/what-are-biopesticides 

[3] Bumcrot, D., Manoharan, M., Koteliansky, V., & Sah, D. W. (2006). RNAi therapeutics: a potential new class of pharmaceutical drugs. Nature chemical biology, 2(12), 711-719. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio839

[4] Taning, C. N. T., Mezzetti, B., Kleter, G., Smagghe, G., & Baraldi, E. (2020). Does RNAi-based technology fit within EU sustainability goals?. Trends in Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.11.008 


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