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Wood MJ, Bull JC, Kanagachandran K, Butt TM. Development and laboratory validation of a plant-derived repellent blend, effective against Aedes aegypti [Diptera: Culicidae], Anopheles gambiae [Diptera: Culicidae] and Culex quinquefasciatus [Diptera: Culicidae]. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0299144. [PMID: 38512948 PMCID: PMC10956804 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, Anopheles and Culex vector a wide range of pathogens seriously affecting humans and livestock on a global scale. Over-reliance on insecticides and repellents has driven research into alternative, naturally-derived compounds to fulfil the same objectives. Steam distilled extracts of four plants with strong, yet attractive, volatile profiles were initially assessed for repellency in a dual-port olfactometer using Aedes aegypti as the model species. Picea sitchensis was found to be the most repellent, proving comparable to leading products when applied at 100% (p = 1.000). Key components of conifer-derived volatile profiles were then screened via electroantennography before those components eliciting an electrophysiological response were assayed individually in the olfactometer; according to WHO protocol. The most promising 5 were selected for reductive analyses to produce an optimised semiochemical blend. This combination, and a further two variations of the blend, were then progressed to a multi-species analysis using the BG-test whereby bite-attempt frequency on hands was assessed under different repellent treatments; assays were compared between Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus. Efficacy was found against all three species, although it was found that Ae. aegypti was the most susceptible to the repellent, with An. gambiae being the least. Here, a novel, naturally-derived blend is presented with weak spatial repellency, as confirmed in laboratory assays. Further work will be required to assess the full extent of the potential of the products, both in terms of field application and species screening; however, the success of the products developed demonstrate that plant metabolites have great capacity for use in the repellent sector; both to improve upon known compounds and to reduce the usage of toxic products currently on the market.
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- Martyn J. Wood
- Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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Patel HK, Gomes EN, Wu Q, Patel N, Kobayashi DY, Wang C, Simon JE. Volatile metabolites from new cultivars of catnip and oregano as potential antibacterial and insect repellent agents. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1124305. [PMID: 36909430 PMCID: PMC9995836 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1124305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plant based natural products have been widely used as antibacterial and insect repellent agents globally. Because of growing resistance in bacterial plant pathogens and urban pests to current methods of control, combined with the long- and short-term negative impact of certain chemical controls in humans, non-target organisms, and the environment, finding alternative methods is necessary to prevent and/or mitigate losses caused by these pathogens and pests. The antibacterial and insect repellent activities of essential oils of novel cultivars of catnip (Nepeta cataria L. cv. CR9) and oregano (Origanum vulgare L. cv. Pierre) rich in the terpenes nepetalactone and carvacrol, respectively, were evaluated using the agar well diffusion assay and petri dish repellency assay. The essential oils exhibit moderate to high antibacterial activity against three plant pathogens, Pseudomonas cichorii, Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas perforans of economic interest and the individual essential oils, their mixtures and carvacrol possess strong insect repellent activity against the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.), an urban pest of major significance to public health. In this study, the essential oils of catnip and oregano were determined to be promising candidates for further evaluation and development as antibacterial agents and plant-based insect repellents with applications in agriculture and urban pest management.
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- Harna K. Patel
- New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Piscataway, NJ, United States
- Center for Agricultural Food Ecosystems, Institute of Food, Nutrition & Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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Density-functional theory of the catnip molecule, nepetalactone. Mol Cell Biochem 2022; 477:1139-1153. [PMID: 35076817 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-022-04366-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Nepetalactones belongs to the group of iridoid monoterpenoids, which are present in the aerial parts of nepeta plants. Nepetalactone is an attractant to feline animals causing euphoric effects, while it is a repellent to mosquitoes and cockroaches. It is also a pheromone for several insect aphid species. The main objective of this research was to study the electronic and spectral properties of nepetalactones. We investigated its structural properties using hybrid density-functional theory of B3LYP and WB97XD functional with the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set to optimize the geometry, and then computed the electronic structure, HOMO-LUMO, natural bond orbitals, molecular electronic potential and its contour map. We also obtained spectral signatures of NMR, IR and UV-Vis, and compared them with experimental data from the literature. The DFT study provided different electronic and spectral information that will be of value for further research on making new derivatives of nepetalactones for commercial purposes. Nepetalactones have a promising future in the development of novel mosquito repellents for the control of malaria and arboviral diseases.
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Iwamatsu T, Miyamoto D, Mitsuno H, Yoshioka Y, Fujii T, Sakurai T, Ishikawa Y, Kanzaki R. Identification of repellent odorants to the body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, in clove essential oil. Parasitol Res 2016; 115:1659-66. [PMID: 26864790 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-4905-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The control of body lice is an important issue for human health and welfare because lice act as vectors of disease such as typhus, relapsing fever, and trench fever. Body lice exhibit avoidance behavior to some essential oils, including clove essential oil. Therefore, odorants containing clove essential oil components may potentially be useful in the development of repellents to body lice. However, such odorants that induce avoidance behavior in body lice have not yet been identified from clove essential oil. Here, we established an analysis method to evaluate the avoidance behavior of body lice to specific odorants. The behavioral analysis of the body lice in response to clove essential oil and its constituents revealed that eugenol, a major component of clove essential oil, has strong repellent effect on body lice, whereas the other components failed to induce obvious avoidance behavior. A comparison of the repellent effects of eugenol with those of other structurally related odorants revealed possible moieties that are important for the avoidance effects to body lice. The repellent effect of eugenol to body lice was enhanced by combining it with the other major component of clove essential oil, β-caryophyllene. We conclude that a synthetic blend of eugenol and β-caryophyllene is the most effective repellent to body lice. This finding will be valuable as the potential use of eugenol as body lice repellent.
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- Takuma Iwamatsu
- Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, Kojimachi Business Center Building, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
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- Osaka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Hondori 3-2-4, Takaida, Higashioosaka, Osaka, 577-0066, Japan
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- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.,Department of Biological Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Saiwai-cho 3-5-8, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan. .,Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
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Obermayr U, Ruther J, Bernier UR, Rose A, Geier M. Evaluation of a Push-Pull Approach for Aedes aegypti (L.) Using a Novel Dispensing System for Spatial Repellents in the Laboratory and in a Semi-Field Environment. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0129878. [PMID: 26115365 PMCID: PMC4482593 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The increase in insecticide resistant mosquito populations necessitates the exploration of novel vector control intervention measures. Push-pull strategies for insect control have been successful when used in integrated crop pest management. Through the combinatory use of deterring and attracting stimuli, the abundance of insect pests can be changed in a given area. A push-pull strategy might also significantly reduce human-vector contacts and augment existing mosquito control strategies, e.g. through the combination of an attractive trapping system and a potent spatial repellent. Our approach includes the BG-Sentinel (BGS) trap in combination with catnip oil (Nepeta cataria), a known spatial repellent for Aedes aegypti. To impart a deterrent effect on mosquitoes at a distance, a homogenous and continuous dispersal of volatile repellent compounds is crucial. We have developed a repellent dispensing system that is easy to use and provides a homogenous dispersal of repellent in an air curtain. The use of five 9 V fans and custom-made repellent sachets containing 10% catnip essential oil created a repellent loaded air curtain that provided coverage of an area of 2 m2 (1.2 x 1.65 m). Air was sampled at four different heights in the curtain and analysed via thermal desorption (TD) and consecutive gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Nepetalactone, the main constituent of the oil, was detected in air at a concentration range of 80 to 100 μg/m3 and the amounts were comparable at all four sampling positions. When a human volunteer was sitting behind the repellent curtain and a BGS trap was installed in front of the curtain in laboratory push-pull trials, Ae. aegypti landing collections decreased significantly by 50% compared to repellent-free controls. However, in a semi-field environment, comparable protective effects could not be achieved and further research on suitable repellent concentrations for outdoor implementation will be required.
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- Ulla Obermayr
- Biogents AG, Weissenburgstrasse 22, D-93055, Regensburg, Germany
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- Universitaet Regensburg, Institute of Zoology, Universitaetsstrasse 31, D-93053, Regensburg, Germany
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- USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23 Dr., Gainesville, Florida, 32608, United States of America
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- Biogents AG, Weissenburgstrasse 22, D-93055, Regensburg, Germany
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- Biogents AG, Weissenburgstrasse 22, D-93055, Regensburg, Germany
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