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Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric

In an effort to meet the increasing demand for food arising from the growing human population, it is important to ensure food security by maintaining the continual supply of crop products and increase their productions. However, crops plantations are often challenged by the presences of pest insects...

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Main Authors: Chan, Seow Neng, Abu Bakar, Norliza, Ho, Chai Ling, Mahmood, Maziah, Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi
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Language:English
Published: Springer 2017
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spelling my.upm.eprints.630122019-10-22T01:36:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63012/ Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric Chan, Seow Neng Abu Bakar, Norliza Ho, Chai Ling Mahmood, Maziah Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi In an effort to meet the increasing demand for food arising from the growing human population, it is important to ensure food security by maintaining the continual supply of crop products and increase their productions. However, crops plantations are often challenged by the presences of pest insects and pathogens that could inflict diseases or feed on the crop plants and lead to massive losses in the crop productions. While chemical pesticides are commonly employed to control pest insects and pathogens problems, it is often associated with numerous negative side effects and excessive usage would cause lasting detrimental effects to the environments and consumers. Alternatively, crop plants with improved traits were produced through the application of biotechnology techniques to provide phytoprotection against pest insects and pathogens. Genes that encode for natural plant defence products, such as protease inhibitors, are genetically engineered into the crop plants and it is reported to be effectively showing insecticidal and anti-pathogenic properties. For this purpose, it is crucial to constantly discover uncharacterized protease inhibitors from novel sources as candidate for phytoprotection as this helps to overcome the adaptation and resistance buildup by the pest insects and pathogens. Turmeric plant is a well-known herbal plant commonly used as traditional medicine and it acts as a suitable novel source for discovery of protease inhibitors. As turmeric’s secondary metabolites are reported to exhibit a wide range of medicinal properties, it could be contributed by protease inhibitors which possessed high anti-pathogenic and inhibitory properties. Springer 2017 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63012/1/Alternative%20strategy%20in%20crop%20protection%20protease%20inhibitors%20from%20turmeric.pdf Chan, Seow Neng and Abu Bakar, Norliza and Ho, Chai Ling and Mahmood, Maziah and Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi (2017) Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric. In: Crop Improvement. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 253-270. ISBN 9783319650784 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65079-1_11
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description In an effort to meet the increasing demand for food arising from the growing human population, it is important to ensure food security by maintaining the continual supply of crop products and increase their productions. However, crops plantations are often challenged by the presences of pest insects and pathogens that could inflict diseases or feed on the crop plants and lead to massive losses in the crop productions. While chemical pesticides are commonly employed to control pest insects and pathogens problems, it is often associated with numerous negative side effects and excessive usage would cause lasting detrimental effects to the environments and consumers. Alternatively, crop plants with improved traits were produced through the application of biotechnology techniques to provide phytoprotection against pest insects and pathogens. Genes that encode for natural plant defence products, such as protease inhibitors, are genetically engineered into the crop plants and it is reported to be effectively showing insecticidal and anti-pathogenic properties. For this purpose, it is crucial to constantly discover uncharacterized protease inhibitors from novel sources as candidate for phytoprotection as this helps to overcome the adaptation and resistance buildup by the pest insects and pathogens. Turmeric plant is a well-known herbal plant commonly used as traditional medicine and it acts as a suitable novel source for discovery of protease inhibitors. As turmeric’s secondary metabolites are reported to exhibit a wide range of medicinal properties, it could be contributed by protease inhibitors which possessed high anti-pathogenic and inhibitory properties.
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author Chan, Seow Neng
Abu Bakar, Norliza
Ho, Chai Ling
Mahmood, Maziah
Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi
spellingShingle Chan, Seow Neng
Abu Bakar, Norliza
Ho, Chai Ling
Mahmood, Maziah
Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi
Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric
author_facet Chan, Seow Neng
Abu Bakar, Norliza
Ho, Chai Ling
Mahmood, Maziah
Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi
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title Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric
title_short Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric
title_full Alternative strategy in crop protection: protease inhibitors from turmeric
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