Claim · model-written summary
Rice-husk-derived silica controlled populations of S. zeamais in stored maize grains within 12 days of exposure.
- Treatment
- silicae0
- Interactor
- S. zeamais
Sitophilus zeamaise0pest - Outcome
- populations of S. zeamaise0
- Direction
- controllede0
- Qualifier
- within 12 days of exposuree0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The silica, which had some surface functional groups, controlled the populations of S. zeamais in stored maize grains within 12 days of exposure”
Title
Bertrand Zing Zing; Winy Virgile Nanfa Guemfo; Christian Toumo Nana; et al. Bulletin of the National Research Centre/Bulletin of the National Research Center 2026. doi:10.1186/s42269-026-01388-w
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Compounding the silica with neem and rosemary oils produced a synergistic effect in controlling pests in stored maize grains.
- Intervention effect The effect of the formulation on stored maize pests was only comparable to synthetic pesticides after 5 days of application.
- Mechanism The authors attribute pest death to inert surface functional groups dehydrating the cuticles of the insect pests.
- Intervention effect Silica derived from rice husk ash and impregnated with neem and rosemary oils retained more than 85% of the germinative capacity of stored maize grains even after prolonged storage.
- Recommendation The authors propose the oil-impregnated rice husk silica as a promising alternative to synthetic pesticides for storing maize grains.