Understanding the potential applications of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture Sector
March 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been extensively applied in farming recently. To cultivate healthier crops, manage pests, monitor soil and growing conditions, analyse data for farmers, and enhance...
Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings in the synthesis of agrochemicals
December 2022
Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings have played an increasingly important role in the synthesis of agrochemicals. In this review, the applications of palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction, Suzuki-Miyaura...
Development of novel pyridine-based agrochemicals: A review
March 2025
Pyridine-based agrochemical products have become the most commercially successful in the 21st century. About half of the agrochemicals with pyridine scaffold were released, registered or invented only...
Peptides, new tools for plant protection in eco-agriculture
March 2023
As important physiological regulators, peptides have been used in many fields including medicine, cosmetics, healthcare products, animal nutrition and health, and plant nutrition and protection. In...
Spray-induced gene silencing in phytopathogen: Mechanisms, applications, and progress
December 2024
Phytopathogens can continuously cause serious losses worldwide to crop, fruit, and vegetable yields. The excessive use of conventional fungicides in pathogen management has raised severe environmental...
Synthetic biology: A powerful booster for future agriculture
September 2022
Abstract: Future agricultural development needs to solve the food security crisis caused by the global food shortage and the environmental demand for green and sustainable technology. The vigorous development...
Biosensor for agriculture and food safety: Recent advances and future perspectives
September 2022
Climate change and the growing world population leading to agriculture and food safety are global challenges facing humanity, while biosensors have long been regarded as one of the powerful tools for...
Smart agriculture and nanotechnology: Technology, challenges, and new perspective
June 2024
In the recent past, much nanotechnology research has been done in an effort to increase agricultural productivity. The Green Revolution led to the careless use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers,...
Research and development trends in plant growth regulators
March 2024
Continued population growth and limited land availability will facilitate the utilization of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in sustainable agriculture to enhance crop yields. The PGRs industry has progressed...
Advances in controlled release systems for sustainable crop production: A review of nano-, micro-, and macro-formulations
Available online 27 May 2025
The high necessity to develop novel and optimized technologies for crop production is very high due to the exponential growth in term of world population of the last years. In this field a novel use...
AI-driven drug discovery from natural products
September 2024
The latest review published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery by Michael W. Mullowney and co-authors focuses on the use of artificial intelligence techniques, specifically machine learning, in natural...
Melatonin—Angel of plant growth regulation and protection
June 2025
Melatonin (N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine), an endogenously synthesized indoleamine, exerts pleiotropic effects in plant physiology by interacting with other phytohormones, thereby synergistically regulating...
Antimicrobial metabolites produced by the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): Bacillus and Pseudomonas
September 2024
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) such as Bacillus and Pseudomonas have drawn broad attention and interest due to their agricultural benefits. One of the major benefits of PGPR lies at their...
Scenario-oriented nanopesticides: Shaping nanopesticides for future agriculture
December 2024
Nanopesticides, as a promising technology, bring scientific and technological impetus to sustainable development and green revolution of agriculture. The excellent physicochemical properties, beneficial...
Carbonyl-bridged trifluoromethyl pyridine derivatives for pest control and mechanistic investigations
Available online 6 June 2025
Trifluoromethyl pyridine (TFMP) motif is commonly discovered in structures of active pharmaceuticals. Flonicamid, characterized by the TFMP moiety, is well known as a prodrug in the knockdown of pests....
PDAI: A green pesticide molecule design technology platform driven by high-performance computing and artificial intelligence
June 2025
Pesticides are integral to agricultural productivity and food security. Despite the notable advancements in Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) and Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD) in pharmaceuticals,...
From cultivation to Consumption: Evaluating the effects of nano fertilizers on food quality and safety
Available online 12 July 2025
Nanofertilizers represent a breakthrough in sustainable agriculture, offering innovative solutions to improve nutrient efficiency, crop productivity, and environmental resilience. Engineered at the...
Mandimycin: A phospholipid-targeting natural polyene macrolide overcoming multidrug resistance in invasive fungal infections
Available online 5 May 2025
Developing novel anti-infective drugs is essential to combat antimicrobial resistance, address emerging pathogens, and safeguard global health against evolving infectious threats. A recent publication...
Crystal engineering in the development of improved pesticide products
September 2022
Pesticides might be the only group of poisonous chemicals that are widely sprayed into the environment, but the use of pesticides is inevitable for crop protection and infectious disease control. When...
Ethylene and jasmonate as stimulants of latex yield in rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis): Molecular and physiological mechanisms. A systematic approximation review
December 2024
The rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. Ex Adr. De Juss.) Müell Arg.] is an important source of latex for the production natural rubber. Natural rubber is an important biopolymer used in various...
Improving the efficacy against cucumber root-knot nematode and Alleviating the phytotoxicity of fluopyram by optimizing the application method
June 2025
The root-knot nematode disease (RKN) caused by Meloidogyne incognita is a devastating threat to the production of crops, especially greenhouse vegetables. Fluopyram, a new nematicide, has been widely...
Research progress of avermectin: A minireview based on the structural derivatization of avermectin
December 2022
Avermectins, a fermentation-derived macrocyclic lactones isolated from Streptomyces avermitilis, exhibiting a long history as biopharmaceuticals used in agriculture, medical and veterinary fields. Due...
Practical method for the large-scale synthesis of 4′-chloro-2-nitrobiphenyl: A key intermediate of Boscalid
September 2024
Boscalid is a pesticide with the advantages of broad spectrum bactericidal activity, high efficiency, low toxicity, and no cross-resistance with other fungicides currently available on the market. Herein,...
Synthesis and perspective of organosulfur chemicals in agrochemicals
March 2023
As well known, with the increase of world population, improving agricultural production has always been of great importance. Due to the effective protection against pests or pathogenic bacteria and...
Exploration and development of artificially synthesized plant growth regulators
March 2024
Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are a critical regulatory factor that influences plant development and against abiotic or biotic stress. The chemical synthesis of phytohormone analogues represents an...