Submitted: January 10, 2022 | Approved: April 04, 2022 | Published: April 05, 2022
How to cite this article: ChowhanKhalil MS. Nematicides in Egypt. J Plant Sci Phytopathol. 2022; 6: 022-023.
DOI: 10.29328/journal.jpsp.1001069
Copyright License: © 2022 Khalil MS. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Agricultural Research Center, Central Agricultural Pesticides Laboratory (CAPL), El-Sabaheya, Alexandria, Egypt
*Address for Correspondence: Mohamed S Khalil, Central Agricultural Pesticides Laboratory, Agricultural Research Center, El-Sabaheya, Alexandria, Egypt, Email: [email protected]
Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are famous aggressive pests that attack several crops worldwide. A lot of farmers are suffering from nematode diseases which cause critical crop losses. At the same time, the most of available solutions for this problem are depending on synthetic nematicides. These chemical nematicides not only cause environmental and health problems but also may cause resistance in nematodes. Despite the occurrence of resistance in nematodes under field conditions still less clear. Therefore, this note is about the registered nematicides in Egypt which may help those who are interested in nematicides. Also, the chemical group and mode of action of nematicides were mentioned according to the insecticide resistance action committee (IRAC) [1] and fungicide resistance action committee (FRAC).
Globally, the production of nematicides in pesticide markets was estimated at 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2020 [2]. Moreover, the demand for nematicides is expected to increase gradually in markets to reach 1.6 billion U.S. dollars by 2025 [2].
In Egypt, diffusion and the aggressiveness of plant-parasitic diseases were noticed during the last five years, therefore, it has expected that the demand for nematicides will be increase during the next decade. But unfortunately, synthetic nematicides may have a lot of environmental and medical defects. So, this may create more interest in the probable alternatives to synthetic nematicides in the nearest future.
Indeed, nematicides were originally considered insecticides and acaricides, but lately, a member of the fungicides group was joined to the nematicides family namely; fluopyram [3]. Moreover, different synthetic nematicides belong to several groups of pesticides. The following two sections clarified the registered nematicides in Egypt [4].
1. Non-fumigant nematicides
Organophosphate group
Carbamate group
Avermectins group
TriTerpinoides group
Pyridinl-ethyl-benzamides group
2. Fumigant nematicides (soil sterilizes)
Compounds in this section are mostly used in protected cultivations (under greenhouse conditions). Most organosulfur compounds are considered methyl isothiocyanate (MITC) generators [5-8].
Organosulfur group
Organochlorine group
All registered nematicides in Egypt included certain formulations such as EC, G, SL, SC, CS and MG. The abbreviation of these formulations was explained in Table 2 [9-11].
