2015 journal article
Development of Abamectin Loaded Plant Virus Nanoparticles for Efficacious Plant Parasitic Nematode Control
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7(18), 9546–9553.
author keywords: red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV); plant virus nanoparticle (PVN); abamectin; soil mobility; crop protection
MeSH headings : Animals; Biological Availability; Caenorhabditis elegans / drug effects; Capsid / chemistry; Crops, Agricultural / drug effects; Crops, Agricultural / parasitology; Ivermectin / analogs & derivatives; Ivermectin / pharmacology; Solanum lycopersicum / drug effects; Solanum lycopersicum / parasitology; Nanoparticles / chemistry; Nematoda / drug effects; Pest Control, Biological; Plant Diseases / parasitology; Plant Viruses / chemistry; Soil; Suspensions; Tobacco / drug effects; Tobacco / parasitology; Tylenchoidea / drug effects
TL;DR:
Tomato seedlings treated with PVN(Abm) had healthier root growth and a reduction in root galling demonstrating the success of this delivery system for the increased efficacy of Abm to control nematode damage in crops.
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Plant parasitic nematodes are one of the world's major agricultural pests, causing in excess of $157 billion in worldwide crop damage annually. Abamectin (Abm) is a biological pesticide with a strong activity against a wide variety of plant parasitic nematodes. However, Abm's poor mobility in the soil compromises its nematicide performance because of the limited zone of protection surrounding the growing root system of the plant. In this study, we manipulated Abm's soil physical chemistry by encapsulating Abm within the Red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) to produce a plant virus nanoparticle (PVN) delivery system for Abm. The transmission electron microscopic and dynamic light scattering characterization of Abm-loaded PVN (PVN(Abm)) indicated the resultant viral capsid integrity and morphology comparable to native RCNMV. In addition, the PVN(Abm) significantly increased Abm's soil mobility while enabling a controlled release strategy for Abm's bioavailability to nematodes. As a result, PVN(Abm) enlarged the zone of protection from Meloidogyne hapla root knot nematodes in the soil as compared to treating with free Abm molecules. Tomato seedlings treated with PVN(Abm) had healthier root growth and a reduction in root galling demonstrating the success of this delivery system for the increased efficacy of Abm to control nematode damage in crops.