Insecticidal Activity of Plant Lectins and Potential Application in CR

• Insect pests play an important role in crop losses and developed resistance to insecticides.• Plant self defense can be exploited to curb the pest menace.• Identification of specific targets of insecticidal plant proteins can helps better transgenic crop development.• Combining of broad insecticidal activity plant proteins into a variety have a greater scope.• Application of insecticidal plant protein in pest management along with other management activities helps to reduce the cost of production and environmental pollution due to insecticides .• Insecticidal plant proteins can be fit in IPM in the future.