Pesticide activities evaluation of β-carboline, dihydro-β-carboline, tetrahydro-β-carboline alkaloids, and their derivatives

Abstract β-Carboline alkaloids are very important indole alkaloids. They are mainly found in plants, marine organisms, cyanobacteria, mushrooms, animals (such as African frogs), and even human tissues and blood. This kind of alkaloids has a wide variety of biological activities, such as antitumor activities, insecticidal activities, antibacterial activities, antioxidant activities, antiviral activities, and antidepressant activities. In this review, we summarized the pesticide activities evaluation of β-carboline, dihydro-β-carboline, tetrahydro-β-carboline alkaloids, and their derivatives.