Botanical pesticides as a source of safe bioacaricides for the control of Tetranychus cinnabarinus

The potential of crude extracts from four plant species were evaluated for their ability to control the Tetranychus cinnabarinus mites under controlled conditions. The extracts were prepared from four plant species Artemisia herba-alba, A. leucodes, Eruca sativa and Sinapis alba. The toxicity of the four plant extracts to animal cells was measured in vitro using the vital mitochondrial dye 3-[4, 5-dimethyliazol-2-yl]-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The assay revealed that the extracts from A. herba-alba, A. leucodes or S. ...