H Schmutterer’s scientific contributions

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Properties And Potential Of Natural Pesticides From The Neem Tree, Azadirachta Indica
  • Literature Review

January 1990

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Annual Review of Entomology

H Schmutterer

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... Neem extracts are composed of a mixture of over 100 compounds responsible for insect mortality, including the main documented component, azadirachtin (Addea-Mensah, 1998), although its concentration varies from one part of the plant to another. Several studies have shown high concentrations of azadirachtin in neem leaves and seeds (Schmutterer, 1990;Singh et al., 2010). showed that the insecticidal properties of Neem extracts were also tested with great success in the field in Burkina Faso on green beans against the bean fly and the locust, on watermelons against the cucurbit fly, on tomato against tomato moth, aphids and whiteflies. ...

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Evaluation of the Effect of Aqueous Extracts of Fresh Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss., 1830) Leaves and Kernels on the Mortality of the Sweet Potato Weevil (Cylas puncticollis Boheman, 1833) under Laboratory Conditions in Burkina Faso
Properties And Potential Of Natural Pesticides From The Neem Tree, Azadirachta Indica
  • Citing Article
  • January 1990

Annual Review of Entomology