With the anticipated population growth in the coming decades, the changing regulatory environment, and the continued emergence of resistance to commercial pesticides, there is a constant need to discover new lead chemistries with novel modes of action. We have established a portfolio of approaches to accelerate lead generation. One of these approaches capitalizes on the rich bioactivity of natural products (NPs), highlighted by the numerous examples of NP-based crop protection compounds. Within Corteva Agriscience and the affiliated preceding companies, NPs have been a fruitful approach, for nearly three decades, to identifying and bringing to the market crop protection products inspired by or originating from NPs, . Included in these NP-based crop protection products are the spinosyns family of insecticides, and those from more recent areas of NP-based fungicidal chemistry, as highlighted in this perspective. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
Keywords: agrochemicals; biologics; crop protection; genomics; lead generation; natural products.
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