Booklice have become an important storage pest threatening the world’s food and food safety due to their wide feeding range, serious generation overlap, and rapid development of pesticide resistance.
New technologies for the prevention and control of stored grain pests have always been a hot topic for researchers.
At present, fumigants, stored grain protectants, and gas conditioning measures are the main measures to control stored grain pests.
Booklice often occur in mixed forms and have a high tolerance and resistance to a variety of fumigants and stored grain protectants. In addition, the long-term irrational use of phosphine has led to a rapid increase in booklic resistance to it. At the same time, due to the restriction or ban on the use of highly toxic pesticides such as aluminum phosphide, it is urgent to find a new type of green fumigant that is efficient, low-toxic and can replace phosphine.
Horseradish (allyl isothiocyanate) is a secondary metabolite derived from cruciferous plants such as horseradish. It has a good fumigation effect on stored grain pests and has good development and application prospects.
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