Learning Module: Towards Safe and Selective Insecticides
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Development of safe and selective insecticides: current status and future advances
Development of safe and selective insecticides: current status and future advances
Cyptox Project summary: "Some of the most acute challenges that the world faces are caused by insects and mites threatening human health and food security. Insect control is primarily achieved by the use of insecticides, eg, malaria prevalence has halved since 2000, saving 600 million lives, with 80% of the reduction attributed to insecticide use. However, both limited availability of low risk insecticides, and insecticide resistance, represent major threats & there is an urgent need to develop safe, novel insecticides."
Join a learning pathway to understanding more about insecticides: learn about the current classes of insecticides and their role in global health, food production and food security. Discover the advantages, disadvantages (including resistance) of current insecticides & approaches to design of chemical insecticides; appreciate the role of biological agents, non-chemical controls & the role of integrated crop / pest management & new technologies in driving the holy grail of low-risk, safe insecticidal practices
How to use: This is a non-exhaustive, brief overview of area of well-researched topics and this resource aims to signpost a collection that are maintained & updated. Please take the references and links herein as a starting point for learning. Both insecticides in agronomy & in vector control are introduced but the general emphasis is from an agrochemical perspective (the vector control perspective is already comprehensively covered in the "Resistant Mosquito" training package). The web pages are structured with illustrative reflections of available content using fast moving animated gifs: these are to indicate content only - please download the pdf version to study at your own pace.
How to use: This is a non-exhaustive, brief overview of area of well-researched topics and this resource aims to signpost a collection that are maintained & updated. Please take the references and links herein as a starting point for learning. Both insecticides in agronomy & in vector control are introduced but the general emphasis is from an agrochemical perspective (the vector control perspective is already comprehensively covered in the "Resistant Mosquito" training package). The web pages are structured with illustrative reflections of available content using fast moving animated gifs: these are to indicate content only - please download the pdf version to study at your own pace.
Connect here if you find any helpful resources to iteratively improve this resource (correspondence to be monitored during the lifetime of the Cyptox project).
Connect here if you find any helpful resources to iteratively improve this resource (correspondence to be monitored during the lifetime of the Cyptox project).
Food security: exploring crop protection
Human health: exploring vector control
Agrochemicals & agronomy: an introduction
Pesticides Q & A
Overview of current insecticide classes (use and application): chemical, biological & physical insecticides
Resistance in Agribusiness: introduction; mechanisms; management; resistance modelling
Summary of current status of insecticide approaches / problems
Insecticide discovery & design: timeline
Agrochemicals: from application to effect
Design of Agrochemicals
Physical properties of Agrochemicals
Lead generation & Compound Evaluation & Development in Agribusiness
New technologies
Integrated crop/pest management & technologies
Biologicals
Genome editing
Role of CYPTOX in advancing discoveries in 'safe' insecticide arena
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