Fecal volatiles as part of the aggregation pheromone complex of the desert locust,Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

abstract：:Secondary metabolites produced by endophytic microorganisms can provide benefits to host plants, such as stimulating growth and enhancing the plant's resistance toward biotic and abiotic factors. During its life, a host plant may be inhabited by many species of endophytes within a restrictive environment. This conditi...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Chagas FO,Dias LG,Pupo MT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatographic fractions of Himalayan cedarwood oil (Cedrus deodara) were bioassayed against the pulse beetle (Callosobruchus analis F.) and the housefly (Musca domestica L.). Almost all fractions showed insecticidal activity against both test species. Fractions I and V led to the highest mortality and also produced ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Singh D,Agarwal SK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenolic compounds have been identified as the most common allelochemicals produced by higher plants. Inhibitions of cinnamic acid, its related phenolic derivatives, and abscisic acid (ABA) on seedling growth and seed germination of lettuce were studied.trans-Cinnamic acid, ando-,m-, andp-coumaric acids inhibited the ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Li HH,Inoue M,Nishimura H,Mizutani J,Tsuzuki E

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castilleja (Scrophulariaceae) species of the western United States contain pyrrolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids. TheCastilleja obtain the alkaloids by root parasitism on host plants, withSenecio atratus andS. triangularis (Asteraceae) furnishing the pyrrolizidines, and quinolizidines being obtained fromLupinus sp...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Stermitz FR,Harris GH

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated volatile infochemicals possibly involved in location of the generalist predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus to plants infested with spider mites in a Y-tube olfactometer. The predators significantly preferred volatiles from lima bean leaves infested with Tetranychus urticae to uninfested lima bean le...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Shimoda T,Ozawa R,Sano K,Yano E,Takabayashi J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leading hypothesis for the evolution of the metal hyperaccumulation trait in plants is as a defense against herbivores. A central piece of evidence expected for this hypothesis is that plants benefit from herbivores being deterred from eating high metal tissues. While many studies have investigated whether or not ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Vesk PA,Reichman SM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traps baited with semiochemicals are often used to investigate the chemical ecology of scolytids and associated insects. One statistical problem frequently encountered in these studies are treatments that catch no insects and, thus, have zero mean and variance, such as blank or control traps. A second problem is the u...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Reeve JD,Strom BL

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant defensive compounds may be a cost rather than a benefit when plants are attacked by specialist insects that may overcome chemical barriers by strategies such as sequestering plant compounds. Plants may respond to specialist herbivores by compensatory growth rather than chemical defense. To explore the use of def...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Arab A,Trigo JR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of host species and resource (carbon dioxide, nitrate) availability on activity of detoxication enzymes in the gypsy moth,Lymantria dispar. Larvae were fed foliage from quaking aspen or sugar maple grown under ambient or elevated atmospheric CO2, with low or high soil NO 3 (-) availability....

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lindroth RL,Jung SM,Feuker AM

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beetles share with other eukaryotes an innate immune system that mediates endogenous defense against pathogens. In addition, larvae of some taxa produce fluid exocrine secretions that contain antimicrobial compounds. In this paper, we provide evidence that larvae of the brassy willow leaf beetle Phratora vitellinae co...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Gross J,Schumacher K,Schmidtberg H,Vilcinskas A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the amplitude of diurnal temperature fluctuations has been decreasing, mainly via warmer night temperatures, we examined the effects of nighttime temperature on concentration of the catecholic phenolics chlorogenic acid and rutin in tomato plants. A two-factor design, with carbon dioxide (350 ppm and 700 pp...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Bradfield M,Stamp N

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the sawtoothed grain beetle,Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), and the merchant grain beetle,O. mercator (Fauvel), to synthetic racemic and chiral macrolide aggregation pheromones was assessed in pitfall olfactometers.O.mercator utilizes theR enantiomers of (Z)-3-dodecen-11-olide and (Z,Z)-3,6-dodecadien-...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Pierce AM,Pierce HD Jr,Oehlschlager AC,Czyzewska E,Borden JH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex pheromone of the citrus fruit borer Ecdytolopha aurantiana has been identified by gas chromatography coupled to an electroantennographic detector (GC-EAD). The electron impact mass spectral (EI-MS) fragmentation of the major EAD-active peak gave identifying features for a monounsaturated acetate. Further analy...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Leal WS,Bento JM,Murata Y,Ono M,Parra JR,Vilela EF

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change includes concomitant changes in many components of the abiotic flux necessary for plant life. In this paper, we investigate the combined effects of elevated CO2 (720 ppm) and temperature (+2 K) on the phytochemistry of three deciduous tree species. The analysis revealed that elevated CO(2) genera...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Veteli TO,Mattson WJ,Niemelä P,Julkunen-Tiitto R,Kellomäki S,Kuokkanen K,Lavola A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anal (proctodeal) glands of maleMicrotus agrestis housed in social isolation undergo severe atrophy. Their weight and volume is significantly lower than those of the stock control males. The atrophied glands can be revived by subjecting deprived voles to various social odors. Atrophied glands of isolated males do not ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Khan TY,Stoddart DM

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivorous insects searching for a host plant need to integrate a sequence of multimodal sensory inputs. We conducted a series of no-choice experiments in a laboratory wind tunnel to examine the behavioral response of the specialist fruit fly, Neoceratitis cyanescens (Diptera: Tephritidae), to host visual and olfacto...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Brévault T,Quilici S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optically pure synthetic enantiomers of (E)-conophthorin [(E)-7-methyl-1,6-dioxaspiro[4.5]decane], one of the volatiles affecting coniferophagous bark beetles, were tested on antennae of Ips typographus, I. duplicatus, I. subelongatus, Dendroctonus micans, and five Scolytus spp. by using combined gas chromatography-el...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Zhang QH,Tolasch T,Schlyter F,Francke W

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of two related plants (Antirrhinum majus L. and Linaria vulgaris Mill.) containing the same defensive compound (the iridoid glucoside, antirrhinoside) but with reproductive strategies that differ during ontogeny was undertaken. Young leaves are important to plants due to their higher photosynthetic rates and, ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Beninger CW,Cloutier RR,Grodzinski B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved understanding of the complex interactions between plants and aphids is emerging. Recognition of aphid feeding in plant tissues involves production of several defense response signaling pathways and downstream production of defense and detoxification compounds. Feeding by Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxi...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Liu X,Meng J,Starkey S,Smith CM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of Amphimallon solstitiale (L.), a well known, widely distributed and rather common European scarab beetle, were analyzed by GC-MS and GC-EAD. Acetoin - (R):(S) > 9:1 - as well as 2,3-butanediol - (2R,3R): (2S,3S):meso = 1:1:9 - were present in extracts of both males and females. Although (2S,3S)-butanediol d...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Tolasch T,Sölter S,Tóth M,Ruther J,Francke W

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans, a bacterivorous nematode, lives in complex rotting fruit, soil, and compost environments, and chemical interactions are required for mating, monitoring population density, recognition of food, avoidance of pathogenic microbes, and other essential ecological functions. Despite being one of the b...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Kaplan F,Badri DV,Zachariah C,Ajredini R,Sandoval FJ,Roje S,Levine LH,Zhang F,Robinette SL,Alborn HT,Zhao W,Stadler M,Nimalendran R,Dossey AT,Brüschweiler R,Vivanco JM,Edison AS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brassica nigra plants, characterized by high levels of sinigrin, and artificial aphid diets to which sinigrin was selectively added were used to rear the crucifer specialist, Brevicoryne brassicae. Aphids were provided as a food source to two species of polyphagous ladybird, Adalia bipunctata and Coccinella septempunc...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Pratt C,Pope TW,Powell G,Rossiter JT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analyses of virgin female sex pheromone gland extracts by gas chromatography (GC), GC-electroantennographic detection (GC-EAD) and GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) followed by field-trapping experiments, have identified (E)-9-tetradecenyl acetate (E9-14:Ac) as the primary sex pheromone component of the spruce budmoth,...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Silk PJ,Butterworth EW,Kuenen LP,Northcott CJ,Dunkelblum E,Kettela EG

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of feeding by the bark beetle, Ips paraconfusus, two pine stilbenes (pinosylvin and pinosylvin methyl ether), ferulic acid glucoside, and enantiomers of the four most common sugars present in ponderosa pine phloem (sucrose, glucose, fructose, and raffinose) did not stimulate or reduce male feeding when assa...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： McNee WR,Bonello P,Storer AJ,Wood DL,Gordon TR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), polyphenol oxidase (PPO), and peroxidase (POD) are considered important biochemical markers in host plant resistance against pest insects. Constitutive activity of these enzymes was analyzed in resistant and susceptible wheat cultivars against cereal aphid Sitobion avenae (F.) at var...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Han Y,Wang Y,Bi JL,Yang XQ,Huang Y,Zhao X,Hu Y,Cai QN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iridoid glucoside, antirrhinoside, is constitutively distributed throughout Antirrhinum majus L. in a manner consistent with its possible role as an allelochemical, but there is no evidence that it has a defensive function with respect to insect herbivory. To address this question, two generalist herbivores, Lyman...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Beninger CW,Cloutier RR,Grodzinski B

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed characterization of two humic fractions was performed: One with low relative molecular mass (LMr<3,500 Da) and one with high relative molecular mass (HMr>3,500 Da). Distinct (1)H NMR spectroscopic patterns were observed for the two fractions. HMr showed an aromatic proton region, an intense and broad region...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Muscolo A,Sidari M,Francioso O,Tugnoli V,Nardi S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of coumarin on the length, diameter, and branching density of different root types in maize seedlings (Zea mays L. cv. Cecilia) were investigated. The maize root system represents a useful model for morphological studies, as it consists of radicle, seminal, and nodal roots whose origin and development are ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Abenavoli MR,Sorgonà A,Albano S,Cacco G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tachinid flies commonly use the pheromones and allomones of stink bugs (Pentatomidae) as host-finding kairomones. Pheromone-baited traps for predaceous (Podisus spp.) and phytophagous (Euschistus spp.) pentatomids were used to obtain tachinid parasitoids in order to study the semiochemical relationships between these ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Aldrich JR,Zhang A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of brief pheromone exposures on responses of codling moth (Cydia pomonella L.) males was tested by flight-tunnel and electroantennogram (EAG) studies. Males were preexposed to pheromone for up to 3 min as they sat in release cages or for shorter times (a few seconds to several min) upon initiating flights o...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Stelinski LL,Gut LJ,Miller JR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00