Botanicals for Sustainable Management of Stored Food Grains: Pesticidal Efficacy, Mode of Action and Ecological Risk Assessment Using Computational Approaches

Botanical pesticides have been used for the control of agricultural pests since antiquity, especially in biodiversity-rich countries. However, so far very limited products based on botanicals are commercially available due to lack practical evidence, availability raw materials at affordable prices, chemical standardization, molecular mechanism action, and strict legislation. The recent reports negative effects currently synthetic insecticides, antimicrobial agents health environment, revitalize interest agri-food industries towards development plant-based pesticidal sustainable management storage pests. current advancement science technology could overcome limitations botanicals, thus, past few years, insecticidal properties widely explored as a potential eco-friendly alternative pesticides. In present review, we summarise against insect microbial contamination stored food grain. Further, elucidation probable toxicity, safety profile, ecological risk assessment has using computation tools. addition, existing need further research develop grain their shelved discussed.