Needles in the Haystack: Exploring Chemical Diversity of Botanical Insecticides
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prior to the discovery of DDT, botanical insecticides – those prepared directly from plants – represented the majority of pest control products in the farmer's arsenal. Then with the spectacular growth of the agrochemical industry, botanicals were all but trivialized in the pest management marketplace. Research in the field of natural products chemistry indicates that terrestrial plants represent a vast, largely untapped resource with respect to novel chemistry, much of which is presumed to have an ecological function. Many scientists have used these facts to justify the ongoing search for new insecticides derived from plants, even though the actual number of commercially viable botanical insecticides is very small. In this chapter we review the current status of botanical insecticides, their mechanisms of action against pest insects, and the challenges to developing and commercializing new botanical insecticides.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it