Fig 1.
Insecticidal activity of five different medicinal plant extracts against rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica by contact toxicity at different concentrations.
Fig 2.
Insecticidal activity of five different medicinal plant extracts against rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae by contact toxicity at different concentrations.
Fig 3.
Insecticidal activity of five different medicinal plant extracts against gram pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera by contact toxicity at different concentrations.
Table 1.
Binding free energy values of various small molecules derived from Artemisia absinthium extract against acetylcholinesterase of Helicoverpa armigera.
Fig 4.
Diverse molecules identified from the extract of Artemisia absinthium through HR-.
LCMS. Among the explored molecules kaempferol (A), pipecolic acid (B), diosmetin (C) and two others (D, E) were prominent.
Fig 5.
Three-dimensional model of acetylcholinesterase of Helicoverpa armigera (A) and its validation through Ramachandran plot (B) and Verify 3D (C).
Fig 6.
Residues of acetylcholinesterase interacting with malaoxon (A) and kaempferol (B).
Both malaoxon and kaempferol bind at the same site of the said esterase.