PHYTOCHEMICAL STUDY AND BIOINSECTICIDAL EFFECT OF THE CRUDE ETHONOLIC EXTRACT OF THE ALGERIAN PLANT ARTEMISIA JUDAICA L. (ASTERACEAE) AGAINST THE BLACK BEAN APHID, APHIS FABAE SCOP.

Abstract

Plants are the nature's biochemical factories. They bio-synthesize a diverse array of different natural products, such as alkaloids, terpenes and terpenoids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids and coumarins through their structural mechanisms to reduce insect attacks, both constitutive and inducible, while insects have evolved strategies to overcome these plant defenses.