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Title:		Non-Host Plant Volatiles Disrupt Sex Pheromone Communication in a Specialist Herbivore
Author(s):		Wang F; Deng J; Schal C; Lou Y; Zhou G; Ye B; Yin X; Xu Z; Shen L;
Address:		"Department of Plant Protection, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China. Department of Entomology and W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7613, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA. National Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China"
Journal Title:		Sci Rep
Year:		2016
Volume:		20160902
Issue:
Page Number:		32666 -
DOI:		10.1038/srep32666
ISSN/ISBN:		2045-2322 (Electronic) 2045-2322 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The ecological effects of plant volatiles on herbivores are manifold. Little is known, however, about the impacts of non-host plant volatiles on intersexual pheromonal communication in specialist herbivores. We tested the effects of several prominent constitutive terpenoids released by conifers and Eucalyptus trees on electrophysiological and behavioral responses of an oligophagous species, Plutella xylostella, which feeds on Brassicaceae. The non-host plant volatile terpenoids adversely affected the calling behavior (pheromone emission) of adult females, and the orientation responses of adult males to sex pheromone were also significantly inhibited by these terpenoids in a wind tunnel and in the field. We suggest that disruption of both pheromone emission and orientation to sex pheromone may explain, at least in part, an observed reduction in herbivore attack in polyculture compared with monoculture plantings. We also propose that mating disruption of both male and female moths with non-host plant volatiles may be a promising alternative pest management strategy"
Keywords:		"Animals Eucalyptus/chemistry Female Herbivory/*drug effects/physiology Lepidoptera/*drug effects/physiology Male Phytochemicals/*metabolism Sex Attractants/*metabolism Sexual Behavior, Animal/*drug effects Terpenes/metabolism Tracheophyta/chemistry Volati;"
Notes:		"MedlineWang, Fumin Deng, Jianyu Schal, Coby Lou, Yonggen Zhou, Guoxin Ye, Bingbing Yin, Xiaohui Xu, Zhihong Shen, Lize eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2016/09/03 Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 2; 6:32666. doi: 10.1038/srep32666"