• Malaria, a parasitic disease which spreads from the bite of female Anopheles mosquito, claims about 600,000 deaths annually.

• The new biopesticide is the powdered form of the dead and dried cells of Chromobacterium species.

• It prevents transmission of malaria by inhibiting the mosquitoes’ ability to transmit the pathogen along with a cidal effect on the mosquito.

• Advantages over conventional insecticides:

  • Less Toxicity

  • More species-specific hence development of genetic resistance becomes significantly low

  • Longer Shelf Life

  • Easily compostable

  • Effective in small concentrations

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