Plant essential oils and formamidines as insecticides/ acaricides: What are the molecular targets?

Apidologie

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-347

  Blenau, Wolfgang ^a   Rademacher, Eva ^b   Baumann, Arnd ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor; GABA; Octopamine; Thymol; Tyramine

Indexed keywords

APICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESSENTIAL OIL; METABOLISM; MITE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC ACID; PARASITE CONTROL; PESTICIDE; PROTEIN; TERPENE;

EID: 84862650579     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-011-0108-7     Document Type: Review

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