Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 22, 2026

Chitosan/Interfering RNA Nanoparticle Mediated Gene Silencing in Disease Vector Mosquito Larvae
Published on: March 25, 2015
Effect of biochanin - a against filarial vector
N S Nagarajan1, C N Manoj, R Priya
1Department of chemistry, Gandhigram rural institute (Deemed University), Gandhigram - 624 302, Tamil Nadu.
Abstract:
A successful attempt of using sodium salt of a water- insoluble larvicide, as an alternative to the use of solutions of such larvicides in acetone and water, for the larvicidal studies is made, in the present study biochanin - A an isoflavone isolated from the flowers of Dalbergia sissoides (grah) when assessed for larvicidal study as its sodium salt on the fourth instar larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus (Sa) showed significant larvicidal activity [LC 50 308.238ppm, LC90 1889.926 ppm].

