1st Edition
Natural Metabolites as Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture
Chapter 1. Sustainable Pest Control – Traditional Methods for a Healthier Planet
Kanchan Kumari, Ajay Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Akshay Pareek, and Mukund Kumar
Chapter 2. The Future of Pest Control: How Traditional Methods are Making a Comeback
Narender Kumar
Chapter 3. Natural Metabolites in Integrated Pest Management
Amit Kumar
Chapter 4. Biopesticides: Boon for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Kuldeep Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Maneesh Kumar Gupta & Chetana Shakya
Chapter 5. Pesticides Closer Look: Understanding How They Work
Aditi Negi, Paulin Patricia, and Indhumathi C, Meenatchi R
Chapter 6. Natural pesticides: An enzymatic perspective
Filippe Elias de Freitas Soares, Adriane Toledo Batista da Silva, Hugo Leonardo André Genier, Débora Castro Toledo de Souza, Cecília Baldoíno Ferreira, Elias Honorato Gomes
Chapter 7. Fungi metabolites: The new frontier in pest control
Mohd Razaq, Sajad Ahmed, Sajad Hussain Shah, Ghulam Abas, Aziz Ahmed Chiwan
Chapter 8. The Secret Power of Bacteria: An All-Natural Approach to Pest Control
Shifa Shaffique, Saima, Hamna Sabeen, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Anis Ali Shah, Muhammad Imran, Shabbir Hussain Wani, and In-Jung Lee
Chapter 9. How Algae Can Help Us Fight Pests
Laxman Nagar, Ekta Chhikara, Manavee Gupta, and Sanchita Bhatnagar
Chapter 10. The Role of Endophytes in Plant Defense and Stress Adaptation
Gaurav Sharma, Rashmi Holker, Unik Arora, Sandeep Kumar, Mitra Pal Singh, Harveer Singh Cheema
Chapter 11. Alkaloids -The Natural Biopesticides
Authors Names: Simran Jatwani, Falguni Aggarwal, Rachana Yadav, Ila Ruchie, Rishabh Rajkumar Jadhav, and Deepa Khare
Chapter 12. The Hidden Power of Flavonoids: A Natural Solution to Pest Control
Asha Rani Sheoran, Nita Lakra, Annu Luhach, and Baljeet Singh Saharan
Chapter 13. Insect Derived Molecules for the Sustainable Control of Harmful Species in Agriculture
Carmen Scieuzo, Federica De Stefano, Francesco Iannielli, Giovanni Lomonaco, Roberta Rinaldi, Anna Guarnieri, Dolores Ianniciello, Micaela Triunfo, Rosanna Salvia, Patrizia Falabella
Chapter 14. Nanotechnology for Pest Control: A New Paradigm
Hansaraj Pradhan and Neeraj Kumar Vasistha
Chapter 15. Introduction to Nanotechnology: The Next Generation of Pest Control
Pradip Kumar and Ashu Tyagi
Chapter 16. Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biopesticide Design
Sakshi Sharma, Tanu Tyagi, Gourav Choudhir, Himanshu, Karishma Kashyap, Sushil Kumar
Chapter 17. Harnessing Multi-omics Tools for Environmentally Sustainable Biopesticide Development and Global Food Security
Aman Agrawal, Ashish Kumar, Vijai Malik
Biography
Dr. Sushil Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 35 research articles and chapters with publishers of international repute. He has special interests in plant secondary metabolites research and their applications in the field of biopesticide and drug discovery method. Dr. Kumar and collaborators compiled the information related to various plant groups and made available to the researchers through Food Drugs & Pharmacology platform which currently hosts four metabolite databases, and several are in progress. Dr. Kumar is a regular reviewer for several journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Bentham Science. He is a life member of the Indian Botanical Society. He earned his higher education from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.
Dr. Gourav Choudhir is a Postdoctoral Research Trainee at Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA. He is a researcher in structural biology and computational biophysics with expertise in biomolecular interactions, molecular dynamics simulations, and protein structure analysis. He completed his PhD studying protein conformational dynamics, enzyme mechanisms, and structure–function relationships using computational and bioinformatics approaches. His research interests include protein phase separation, disease-associated mutations, computational drug discovery, and AI-driven structural biology. Dr. Choudhir has international postdoctoral research experience and strong expertise in GROMACS, PyMOL, Python, Linux, and high-performance computing. His work integrates computational modeling with mechanistic insights to understand biomolecular regulation and support translational biomedical and therapeutic research.
Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani, Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) Genetics and Plant Breeding Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar J&K, India. He has published more than 200 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. Presently he is also serving as Associate Editor for PCTOC, Springer and reviews editor for Frontiers in Plant Science, section Abiotic Stress in Plants. He has also edited several books published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. He was elected as Fellow of Linnaean Society of London 2017. Recently he was felicitated with Award for Excellence in Research 2020 from Novel Research Academy, Puducherry, India. Recently Dr. Wani was selected as member of Expert Working Group (EWG) Wheat Initiative for Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress (AWAS), and Wheat Breeding Methods and Strategies (WBMS), Berlin, Germany. He has been judged as Fellow of International Society for development and Sustainability ISDS, Japan. He was also selected as member, The Royal Society of Biology, London, UK and Member NASI, India. Recently in the year 2024, he has been awarded the Fellow of the Society by Society of Wheat and Barley ICAR IIWBR Karnal. Currently, he is working as Scientist in the All India Coordinated Research Project on Seed (Crops) at SKUAST K, Shalimar.
