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<p style="text-align: justify;">Evaluation of mosquito larvicidal activity of <em>Azolla pinnata</em> leaf extracts against the filarial vector <em>Culex quinquefasciatus</em></p>

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Title Statement <p style="text-align: justify;">Evaluation of mosquito larvicidal activity of <em>Azolla pinnata</em> leaf extracts against the filarial vector <em>Culex quinquefasciatus</em></p>
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Bhattacharjee, Indranil ; P. G. Department of Zoology, Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women’s College (Autonomous) (Natural and Applied Science Research Centre), Paschim Medinipur 721102, West Bengal, India Department of Zoology, Dr Bhupendranath Dutta Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Hatgobindapur 713407, West Bengal, India
Mandal, Biplab ; Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur 721102, West Bengal, India
Chakravorty, Partha Pratim; P. G. Department of Zoology, Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women’s College (Autonomous) (Natural and Applied Science Research Centre), Paschim Medinipur 721102, West Bengal, India
 
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Azolla pinnata; Culex quinquefasciatus; Larvicide; Leaf extract; Non-target organisms.
 
Summary, etc. <p style="text-align: justify;">Vector control is a major challenge now-a-days when they became resistance against commonly available insecticides. As an alternative, preliminary laboratory evaluation of <em>Azolla pinnata </em>crude and chloroform: methanol solvent extract was carried out under laboratory trials for control of <em>Culex quinquefasciatus</em>. Crude and solvent extract (chloroform: methanol) extracts of <em>A. pinnata </em>leaves were examined for the larvicidal activity against all the larval instars (1<sup>st</sup> to 4<sup>th</sup>) of <em>C. quinquefasciatus. </em>Dose-dependent mortality assays were performed using the extracts. Further, determinations of LC<sub>50</sub> and LC<sub>95</sub> values were accomplished through log-probit analyses and regression analyses. The larvicidal activity was statistically justified through ANOVA analyses. Effects of the extracts were examined on non-target water fauna. Exposure to <em>A. pinnata</em> crude and chloroform: methanol extract increased the mortality of first to fourth-instar <em>C. quinquefasciatus</em>. All the graded concentrations showed significant (<em>P</em> &lt;0.05) larval mortality and the results of the regression equation revealed that the mortality rates were positively correlated with the concentrations of the extracts (R<sup>2</sup> close to 1). LC<sub>50</sub> values of all instars after 24 h of exposure were between 86.99-294.06 ppm for crude and 48.87-111.44 ppm for chloroform: methanol extract. Chloroform: methanol extract is better than crude because the nature of biological components can be enhanced in presence of solvent and secondly the stronger extraction capacity could have produced a greater number of active constituents. The residual effect is noted even at the end of 72 h. A negligible toxicity to the larvae of <em>Chironomus circumdatus</em> was noticed as non-target organisms.</p>
 
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2022-05-23 16:40:13
 
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Data Source Entry Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (IJNPR) [Formerly Natural Product Radiance (NPR)]; ##issue.vol## 13, ##issue.no## 1 (2022): MARCH 2022
 
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