What is it about?
The article reviews the works in controlling Tribolium castaneum by using different essential oils during storage. The article also explains future strategies to control the storage insect pests.
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Why is it important?
Because it offers the utilization of essential oils as an bio-compatible alternative of harmful synthetic preservatives for protecting stored food commodities from insect pests.
Perspectives
I believe, that the article would attract different workers across the globe to work upon the utilization of essential oils for protecting stored food commodities from insect pests during storage. This article would also provoke the industries and academia to focus on essential oils to protect stored food commodities and also pave the way for using natural product instead of synthetic one.
Abhishek Dwivedy
Banaras Hindu University
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This page is a summary of: Essential Oils as Eco-friendly Alternatives to Synthetic Pesticides for the Control of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants, March 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0972060x.2018.1459875.
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