Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.06.006
Yushi Xie , Min Yang , Longjiao Zhu , Xiaoyu Yue , Baiqiang Zhai , Wentao Xu
{"title":"Research progress of DNA aptamer-based silver ions detection","authors":"Yushi Xie , Min Yang , Longjiao Zhu , Xiaoyu Yue , Baiqiang Zhai , Wentao Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Silver ions are regarded as one of the most hazardous metal contaminants, endangering both the ecological environment and human health. Traditional silver ions detection technologies are hampered by their high cost, time-consuming nature, and labor-intensive operation. DNA aptamers play an essential part in the field of biosensors due to their ease of synthesis, ease of modification, and low cost. This paper focuses on reviewing the research progress of DNA aptamer-based biosensors in silver ions detection. According to the types of signal transduction, they are classified into four forms of signal transduction: fluorescent biosensors, colorimetric biosensors, electrochemical biosensors, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy biosensors. In addition, this paper gives a perspective on the application prospects outlook and development directions of DNA aptamer-based biosensors, in order to provide theoretical ideas for the future development of more sensitive DNA aptamer biosensors for rapid detection of silver ions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 231-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49733911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.002
Wen Fu , Zhong Li , Xusheng Shao
{"title":"Application of photopharmacology in agrochemicals","authors":"Wen Fu , Zhong Li , Xusheng Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Photopharmacology is a novel technology in drug design that aims at solving poor drug selectivity. This technology is currently in the proof-of-concept phase and relies on the photoactivation or inactivation of photochromic ligands (PCLs) to regulate biological functions and living organisms. As potential molecular tools in future agriculture 4.0, the photochromic pesticides are effective in optical control of receptors, ion channels, living behaviors, and enzymes, which displays an innovative way of pesticide discovery. In this review, we highlight the progresses of the photoisomerized insecticides and fungicides. By integrating photoswitches, such as azobenzenes and diarylethenes, into pesticide molecules, several PCLs were developed for optical regulation of important insect or fungi targets in vivo, including GABARs, RyRs, nAChRs, SURs, sodium channels, GluCls, and SDH. The results are highly significant in revealing interactions of agrochemicals with their targets, biological functions, and living behaviors, and provide powerful toolkits in understanding ligand-receptor interactions. Moreover, there is a growing demand for a diverse range of PCLs, particularly those that are sensitive to red and NIR light or sunlight, for actual field use in agriculture. We envision that this particular mode of pesticide discovery is of great promise for overcoming the challenges posed by the improper use of agrochemicals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 142-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49712334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.001
Li-Jun Chen , Guang-Yi Huang , Jin Dong, Zhuo-Mei Cai, Bao-Qing Ye, Qiong Chen, Hong-Yan Lin
{"title":"Discovery of tetrazolium nicotinamide derivatives as novel 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibiting-based herbicides","authors":"Li-Jun Chen , Guang-Yi Huang , Jin Dong, Zhuo-Mei Cai, Bao-Qing Ye, Qiong Chen, Hong-Yan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (EC 1.13.11.27, HPPD) is currently one of the popular targets of herbicide research, and herbicides targeting it have shown promising results in treating resistant weeds. However, the long-term application of HPPD inhibitors with in their classical scaffolds inevitably leads to the development of drug resistance. To further delay the underlying development of weed resistance to HPPD inhibitors, we successfully screened HPPD inhibitor pharmacophore with novel chelate structures using computer-aided drug molecular design and obtained 2-trifluoromethyltetrazolium nicotinamide derivatives through active fragment splicing. Among these derivatives, 6-(3,3-diethyl-1-methylureido)-<em>N</em>-(1-methyl-1<em>H</em>-tetrazol-5-yl)-2-(trifluoromethyl)nicotinamide (compound <strong>31</strong>), exhibited the most promising <em>in vitro</em> enzyme inhibitory activity, with IC<sub>50</sub> value of 0.072 μM, which was approximately five times better than that of the control agent mesotrione (IC<sub>50</sub> = 0.363 μM). The crystal structure of the <em>At</em>HPPD complexed with compound <strong>31</strong> (2.0 Å) and the binding energy calculations of the representative compounds revealed several important interactions of the ligand binding to the target protein, which explained the superior enzyme inhibitory activity of the compounds at the molecular level. In addition, compounds <strong>7</strong> and <strong>31</strong> possessed 100% inhibition against the five target weeds at the tested dosage and both were more effective against <em>Setaria viridis</em> than mesotrione. In general, it is promising to design novel HPPD inhibitors by developing novel chelating structures, and compounds <strong>7</strong> or <strong>31</strong> could be used as the leads for further development of valuable HPPD inhibitors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 163-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49726958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.001
Xiaofang Yao , Rongrong Zhang , Bo Lv , Wei-Wei Wang , Zhigang Liu , Zhaonong Hu , Ding Li
{"title":"Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of thiazole and imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives containing a hydrazone substructure as potential agrochemicals","authors":"Xiaofang Yao , Rongrong Zhang , Bo Lv , Wei-Wei Wang , Zhigang Liu , Zhaonong Hu , Ding Li","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural chemicals with multifunctional applications in crop protection have attracted increasing attention. Herein, two new series of thiazole and imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives containing a hydrazone substructure were designed and synthesized via a concise synthesis route. Bioassay results showed that most of the thiazole derivatives exhibited broad-spectrum fungistatic activities, which were exemplified by compounds <strong>1c</strong>, <strong>1e</strong>, <strong>1g</strong>, <strong>1h</strong> and <strong>1j</strong>. In particular, compound <strong>1e</strong> displayed excellent <em>in vitro</em> inhibitory effects with the EC<sub>50</sub> values of 5.00, 18.24, 6.94, and 3.03 μg/mL against the fungi <em>Botrytis cinerea</em>, <em>Cytospora</em> sp, <em>Fusarium graminearum</em>, and <em>Fusarium solani,</em> respectively. Detached fruit experiments against tomato gray mold (caused by <em>B. cinerea</em>) <em>in vivo</em> revealed that the control efficiency of compound <strong>1e</strong> at 10, 20 and 40 μg/mL for 5 days was 35.05%, 54.14% and 81.83%, respectively, which was comparable and even superior to that of the fungicide carbendazim. Additionally, the title compounds also showed remarkable larvicidal activity against <em>M. separata</em> and some compounds exhibited good aphicidal activity. In a word, the bioassay indicated that a certain number of title compounds had multiple biological activities. Given their excellent antifungal and larvicidal characteristics, these interesting derivatives based on the title compounds could be served as new scaffolds for the development of pesticide with multifunctional applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 154-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49734374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.03.001
Jin Zhang , Chenyang Yue , Yingjun Ke , Hemi Qu , Lintao Zeng
{"title":"Fluorescent probes for the detection of biogenic amines, nitrite and sulfite in food: Progress, challenges and perspective","authors":"Jin Zhang , Chenyang Yue , Yingjun Ke , Hemi Qu , Lintao Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Foodborne contaminants such as biogenic amines (BAs), nitrite and sulfite are harmful to human health. To safeguard food safety, the content of BAs, nitrite and sulfite should be strictly controlled. Small-molecule fluorescent probes are a promising analytical tool for monitoring BAs, nitrite and sulfite because they are highly sensitive and selective, offer simplicity of operation, and can enable optical signal visualization of the analyte. In this review, we summarize the most recent progress on the development of fluorescent probes for selectively detecting BAs, nitrite, and sulfite. In particular, we discuss the working mechanisms, sensing performance, and practical applications of various fluorescent probes that have been developed in recent years for detecting BAs, nitrite, and sulfite, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of these probes in food. Lastly, we discuss the research directions, trends, and prospects of molecular fluorescent probes in food applications in the future. We hope this review can offer conceptual and design guidance for researchers and practitioners to develop novel fluorescent probes for food safety.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 127-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49734433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.002
Zili Ren, Min Lv, Yuling Zhang, Jiawei Du, Hui Xu
{"title":"Preparation of oximoether derivatives of osthole and their pesticidal properties","authors":"Zili Ren, Min Lv, Yuling Zhang, Jiawei Du, Hui Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To explore non-food bioactive products for pesticide candidates, and high value-added application of crop plants in agriculture, by using osthole (a natural coumarin isolated from a Chinese herbal medicine <em>Cnidium monnieri</em>) as a lead compound, a series of osthole derivatives containing oximoether groups were synthesized, and evaluated for their agricultural activities against <em>Tetranychus cinnabarinus</em> and <em>Mythimna separata</em>. The key steric configurations of eight derivatives were confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Especially compound <strong>4r</strong> showed potential insecticidal activity (>2-fold of osthole) against <em>M. separata</em>, and <strong>4g</strong> displayed good acaricidal activity against <em>T. cinnabarinus</em> (LC<sub>50</sub> = 0.566 mg/mL, > 2-fold of osthole). Their structure–activity relationships were also concluded. It will pave the way for future application of osthole derivatives as coumarin-kind botanical pesticides in crop protection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 173-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49733775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.003
Pengfei Hu , Xiaoping Ye , Xiaoping Song , Mingxin Yang , Yunsheng Zhong , Yijing Cen , Yanxin Zhang , Yiming Song , Qingchao Liu
{"title":"Nornicotine-typed insecticides: The potential insecticides with strong activity against Diaphorina citri","authors":"Pengfei Hu , Xiaoping Ye , Xiaoping Song , Mingxin Yang , Yunsheng Zhong , Yijing Cen , Yanxin Zhang , Yiming Song , Qingchao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nicotine and nornicotine-typed compounds are well-known for its potential as insecticide. Some researches have shown that nicotine was highly toxic to <em>Diaphorina citri</em> Kuwayama, an invasive and fast spreading pest. Here we report the effects of nornicotine-typed insecticide against <em>D. citri</em>. Novel compounds <strong>A1</strong>-<strong>A8</strong>, <strong>B1–B28, C1–C18 and D1-D12</strong> were synthesized by reported procedure. And bioassays indicated that some of these compounds exhibited good effects against <em>D. citri.</em> Compounds <strong>B2</strong>, <strong>B3</strong>, <strong>B8</strong>, <strong>B12</strong>, <strong>B13</strong>, <strong>B22</strong>, <strong>C5</strong>, <strong>C7</strong>, <strong>D5</strong>, and <strong>D9</strong> exhibited the mortality up to 100% within 120 h in 50 mg/L. And further data shows that <strong>A2-5</strong>, <strong>A7</strong>, <strong>B1</strong>, <strong>B8</strong>, <strong>B20</strong> and <strong>B22</strong> showed rapid insecticidal activities against <em>D. citri</em> in 24 h with the low LC<sub>50</sub> (LC<sub>50</sub> < 50 mg/L in 24 h, and LC<sub>50</sub> < 30 mg/L in 72 h). Nornicotine-typed derivatives exhibited activity against <em>D. citri</em>, and <strong>B8</strong> and <strong>B22</strong> exhibited the best insecticidal activity with an LC<sub>50</sub> of 18.0 ± 1.0, 18.2 ± 0.9 mg/L in 24 h, which had the lower cost than nicotine and showed the potential as powerful insecticides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 180-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49761719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis, fungicidal activity and molecular docking studies of tavaborole derivatives","authors":"Zhuo He , Dai-Chuan Huang , Dale Guo , Fang Deng , Qiang Sha , Ming-Zhi Zhang , Wei-Hua Zhang , Yu-Cheng Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Benzoxaborole, a five-membered oxaborole ring fused with a phenyl ring, has demonstrated potent pharmacological activity. In order to explore their potential applications in agriculture, five-membered and six-membered benzoxaborole derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their fungicidal activity against six common plant pathogenic fungi in vitro. The bioassay results showed that most of the target compounds exhibited significant fungicidal activity at concentrations below 50 μg/mL, particularly the highlighted compounds 4b and 4e, which demonstrated impressive fungicidal activity superior to those of the positive controls. Molecular docking was also performed to confirm the practical value of the active compound as a potential inhibitor of Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase (LeuRS). This study indicates that the designed benzoxaborole derivatives could serve as template molecules for the development of novel fungicides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 185-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49726964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Advanced AgrochemPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.aac.2023.01.002
Zi-Bo Lin , Yan-Xiang Zhao , Wen-Chao Yang
{"title":"A balanced mechanism between plant growth and stress response","authors":"Zi-Bo Lin , Yan-Xiang Zhao , Wen-Chao Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We intended to highlight the interesting findings that three leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases function as receptors for sulfated plant peptide hormones, which could mediate switching between plant growth and stress tolerance. Thereafter, we proposed the potential of developing chemical regulators for promoting plant growth when they are suffering from environmental stresses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49733909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research process in application of fluorescent sensor for pesticide detection","authors":"Zongyan Quan, Hongjuan Li, Shiguo Sun, Yongqian Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.aac.2023.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aac.2023.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The survival of human beings is inseparable from the development of agriculture. The use of pesticides is still an important means to ensure agricultural production, economic benefits and the national economy. With the abuse of pesticides, some pesticides are difficult to degrade after entering the natural world, which leads to many serious problems through the transmission and enrichment of food chains. Pesticide residue detection is a long-term challenge in the field of environment and food safety detection. In recent years, a large number of studies have been carried out on the detection of pesticide residues based on fluorescence sensing methods. This paper focuses on the application of fluorescence sensors in environmental samples or food, and analyzes the advantages and problems of existing fluorescence sensors in design, construction and data processing. Finally, the possible improvement directions in the future are discussed to promote its potential commercial value application research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100027,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Agrochem","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 107-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49712332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}