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From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control

BACKGROUND: Pest management has been facing the spread of invasive species, insecticide resistance phenomena, and concern for the impact of chemical pesticides on human health and the environment. It has tried to deal with them by developing technically efficient and economically sustainable solutio...

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Autores principales: Friuli, Marco, Cafarchia, Claudia, Lia, Riccardo Paolo, Otranto, Domenico, Pombi, Marco, Demitri, Christian
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05193-y
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author Friuli, Marco
Cafarchia, Claudia
Lia, Riccardo Paolo
Otranto, Domenico
Pombi, Marco
Demitri, Christian
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Cafarchia, Claudia
Lia, Riccardo Paolo
Otranto, Domenico
Pombi, Marco
Demitri, Christian
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description BACKGROUND: Pest management has been facing the spread of invasive species, insecticide resistance phenomena, and concern for the impact of chemical pesticides on human health and the environment. It has tried to deal with them by developing technically efficient and economically sustainable solutions to complement/replace/improve traditional control methods. The renewal has been mainly directed towards less toxic pesticides or enhancing the precision of their delivery to reduce the volume employed and side effects through lure-and-kill approaches based on semiochemicals attractants. However, one of the main pest management problems is that efficacy depends on the effectiveness of the attractant system, limiting its successful employment to semiochemical stimuli-responsive insects. Biomaterial-based and bioinspired/biomimetic solutions that already guide other disciplines (e.g., medical sciences) in developing precision approaches could be a helpful tool to create attractive new strategies to liberate precision pest management from the need for semiochemical stimuli, simplify their integration with bioinsecticides, and foster the use of still underemployed solutions. APPROACH PROPOSED: We propose an innovative approach, called “biomimetic lure-and-kill”. It exploits biomimetic principles and biocompatible/biodegradable biopolymers (e.g., natural hydrogels) to develop new substrates that selectively attract insects by reproducing specific natural environmental conditions (biomimetic lure) and kill them by hosting and delivering a natural biopesticide or through mechanical action. Biomimetic lure-and-kill-designed substrates point to provide a new attractive system to develop/improve and make more cost-competitive new and conventional devices (e.g. traps). A first example application is proposed using the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus as a model. CONCLUSIONS: Biomaterials, particularly in the hydrogel form, can be a useful tool for developing the biomimetic lure-and-kill approach because they can satisfy multiple needs simultaneously (e.g., biomimetic lure, mechanical lethality, biocompatibility, and bioinsecticide growth). Such an approach might be cost-competitive, and with the potential for applicability to several pest species. Moreover, it is already technically feasible, since all the technologies necessary to design and configure materials with specific characteristics are already available on the market. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-88984402022-03-16 From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control Friuli, Marco Cafarchia, Claudia Lia, Riccardo Paolo Otranto, Domenico Pombi, Marco Demitri, Christian Parasit Vectors Review BACKGROUND: Pest management has been facing the spread of invasive species, insecticide resistance phenomena, and concern for the impact of chemical pesticides on human health and the environment. It has tried to deal with them by developing technically efficient and economically sustainable solutions to complement/replace/improve traditional control methods. The renewal has been mainly directed towards less toxic pesticides or enhancing the precision of their delivery to reduce the volume employed and side effects through lure-and-kill approaches based on semiochemicals attractants. However, one of the main pest management problems is that efficacy depends on the effectiveness of the attractant system, limiting its successful employment to semiochemical stimuli-responsive insects. Biomaterial-based and bioinspired/biomimetic solutions that already guide other disciplines (e.g., medical sciences) in developing precision approaches could be a helpful tool to create attractive new strategies to liberate precision pest management from the need for semiochemical stimuli, simplify their integration with bioinsecticides, and foster the use of still underemployed solutions. APPROACH PROPOSED: We propose an innovative approach, called “biomimetic lure-and-kill”. It exploits biomimetic principles and biocompatible/biodegradable biopolymers (e.g., natural hydrogels) to develop new substrates that selectively attract insects by reproducing specific natural environmental conditions (biomimetic lure) and kill them by hosting and delivering a natural biopesticide or through mechanical action. Biomimetic lure-and-kill-designed substrates point to provide a new attractive system to develop/improve and make more cost-competitive new and conventional devices (e.g. traps). A first example application is proposed using the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus as a model. CONCLUSIONS: Biomaterials, particularly in the hydrogel form, can be a useful tool for developing the biomimetic lure-and-kill approach because they can satisfy multiple needs simultaneously (e.g., biomimetic lure, mechanical lethality, biocompatibility, and bioinsecticide growth). Such an approach might be cost-competitive, and with the potential for applicability to several pest species. Moreover, it is already technically feasible, since all the technologies necessary to design and configure materials with specific characteristics are already available on the market. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] BioMed Central 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8898440/ /pubmed/35248154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05193-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Review
Friuli, Marco
Cafarchia, Claudia
Lia, Riccardo Paolo
Otranto, Domenico
Pombi, Marco
Demitri, Christian
From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title_full From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title_fullStr From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title_full_unstemmed From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title_short From tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
title_sort from tissue engineering to mosquitoes: biopolymers as tools for developing a novel biomimetic approach to pest management/vector control
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05193-y
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