Practical Exploration on Development of New Biopesticides Based on The Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Agriculture
- Received Date: 02/12/2023
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Key words:
- traditional Chinese medicine agriculture /
- biopesticides /
- heat-clearing and detoxicating /
- overall efficacy /
- preventive treatment of disease
Abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) agriculture is the use of basic theories and methods of traditional Chinese medicines to solve many practical problems encountered in modern agriculture. It is an important strategy to achieve ecological and organic agriculture. This paper analyzes 4 cases of TCM agriculture practices. Firstly, the case of exploring botanical pesticides including matrine, berberine, and physcion from heat-clearing and detoxicating TCM formulas and their single herbs was analyzed, and proposed that these TCM formulas and their single herbs were important sources to develop botanical pesticides. Then, the exploration of new nigeroate from Hyoscyamus niger to develop novel plant elicitor and growth regulator was described. We summarized the overall efficacy of Clematis plants and its potential on exploration of the novel agroactive molecules based on the view of therapeutic material basis. Finally, this paper concluded the strategy of preventive treatment of disease, key technique of Liangqian Lianghou, and development of compound microbial agents for control of kiwifruit bacterial canker. The above TCM agriculture practices provided ideas and references for better utilizing TCM medicine theories and resources to develop new biopesticides.