Title: | "Identification of volatile compounds emitted by Artemisia ordosica (Artemisia, Asteraceae) and changes due to mechanical damage and weevil infestation" |
Author(s): | Zhang H; Zhou D; Luo Y; Wang J; Zong S; |
Address: | "The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0939-5075 (Print) 0341-0382 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Volatiles emitted by healthy, mechanically damaged, and weevil-infested Artemisia ordosica (Asteraceae) were obtained through a dynamic headspace method and analysed by automatic thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (ATD/GC/MS). Twenty-eight compounds in all were identified, and the qualitative as well as quantitative differences were compared. The green leaf volatiles 2-hexenal, (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, 2-hexen-1-ol, 1-hexanol, and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol acetate were present in all of the damaged plants, but in relatively lower portions when plants were infested by the weevil Adosopius sp., while the terpenoids alpha-copaene, beta-cedrene, and (E,E)-alpha-farnesene and the ester methyl salicylate were only present in weevil-damaged plants. The volatiles from healthy and weevil-infested leaves were dominated by D-limonene, whereas mechanically damaged leaves emitted beta-pinene as the dominant compound" |
Keywords: | Animals Artemisia/*chemistry Volatile Organic Compounds/*chemistry Weevils/*drug effects; |
Notes: | "MedlineZhang, Hui Zhou, Dayong Luo, Youqing Wang, Jinlin Zong, Shixiang eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Germany 2013/09/27 Z Naturforsch C J Biosci. 2013 Jul-Aug; 68(7-8):313-7" |