What is azadirachtin used for?

What is azadirachtin used for?

Azadirachtin acts in the following ways: It deters certain insects, such as locusts, from feeding and it interferes with the normal life cycle of insects, including feeding, molting, mating, and egg laying. Use Sites: Food and non-food plants; ornamentals; commercial and residential indoor and outdoor sites.

What is the chemical name of azadirachtin?

Azadirachtin

Is azadirachtin an insecticide?

Azadirachtin is a broad-spectrum insecticide (Figure 1), its acts as a feeding deterrent, insect growth disruptor (IGD), and sterilant and is used to control various agricultural pest species, including Coleoptera, Heminoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, and Isoptera (Morgan, 2009).

Is azadirachtin a fungicide?

According to Dubey and Kumar [41] , azadirachtin shows an excellent fungicidal action as it possesses equally as mancozeb and bavistin.

How is azadirachtin made?

Azadirachtin is an extract of fruit from the Neem tree, which is largely grown in India. It is used as a commercial insect growth regulator that controls the metamorphosis process as the insect passes from the larva stage to the pupa stage.

Is azadirachtin organic?

Azadirachtin is very low in toxicity to mammals, is biodegradable, and has little effect on natural predators. Azadirachtin is a very complicated chemical compound and belongs to the class called limonoids. Due to its complexity, it will be difficult for insects to become resistant to it.

What is azadirachtin A & B?

Azadirachtin B is an azadirachtin that has been found in the neem tree, A. indica, and has diverse biological activities, including insecticidal, nematocidal, anticancer, and osteogenic properties.

Is azadirachtin systemic?

Azadirachtin is systemically taken up by plants through roots and weakly systemic in the leaves. It has both systemic and direct contact action. Only sucking and piercing insects are affected by the systemic form.

Is azadirachtin safe?

Both are safe for humans, wildlife, and the environment when used properly. Bees and other pollinators are also unharmed. However, neem oil and azadirachtin insecticide may be slightly to moderately harmful to fish and aquatic mammals.

Who discovered azadirachtin?

Butterworth and E. D. Morgan at the University of Keele (UK) identified azadirachtin as the key molecule in 1968. Stephen V. Ley and four co-workers at the University of Cambridge (UK) completed its prodigious total synthesis in 2007.

Is azadirachtin volatile?

Biologically active volatile organosulfur compounds from seeds of the neem tree, Azadirachta indica (Meliaceae)

Is azadirachtin soluble in water?

The fact that azadirachtin gets extracted into water is unusual and puzzling as this tetranor triterpenoid is lipophilic in nature whose solubility in water is very negligible (0.26 gm/lit of water) i.e 260 ppm.