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ReviewJournal of agricultural and food chemistry2026

From Waste to Defense: Agro-Industrial Byproducts as Sources of Biopesticides and Bioelicitors for Crop Protection.

Marco Greco, Giulia Caminada, Daniele Coculo, Vincenzo Lionetti

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Review in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marco GrecoInstitute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council (IPSP-CNR), Bari, Apulia 70126, Italy.ORCID 0009-0007-4592-5997
Giulia CaminadaUniversità degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Rome, Lazio 00185, Italy.ORCID 0009-0002-4202-0424
Daniele CoculoUniversità degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Rome, Lazio 00185, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1762-3525
Vincenzo LionettiUniversità degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Rome, Lazio 00185, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2262-1479

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intensification of agro-industrial production has led to a heavy reliance on chemical pesticides, raising significant environmental and health concerns. Sustainable alternatives can be found in the plant kingdom, which employs complex defense mechanisms against pests and phytopathogens, including the biosynthesis and release of antimicrobial and immune elicitor compounds. However, the increasing demand for plant-based foods limits their extraction and commercial use. Agro-industrial factories generate large amounts of underutilized plant-based waste, whose management poses significant challenges. Agro-industrial byproducts accumulate high concentrations of bioactive molecules that are retrieved through green extraction methods that show promising results for controlling pests and phytopathogens. The repurposing of plant-based agro-industrial byproducts for biopesticides and vaccines for plant development can offer crucial help in the implementation of the circular economy, resilient agricultural systems, and sustainable crop protection.

Indexed as

Biological Control AgentsCrop ProtectionIndustrial WastePesticidesPlant ExtractsWaste ProductsAgricultureCrops, AgriculturalPlant DiseasesBiological Control AgentsIndustrial WastePesticidesPlant ExtractsWaste Productsantimicrobial activitycell wall oligosaccharidescircular bioeconomyessential oilsglucosinolatesglycoalkaloidsinduced resistanceinsecticidal activityphenolic compoundsplant immune responseplant protection productsproteins

Identifiers

PMID41879029
PMCPMC13067348

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