| Title: | Identification of the sex pheromone components secreted by female moths of Peridroma saucia (Noctuidae: Noctuinae) |
| Author(s): | Inomata S; Tsuchiya S; Ikeda K; Saito O; Ando T; |
| Address: | "Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan" |
| Journal Title: | Biosci Biotechnol Biochem |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0916-8451 (Print) 0916-8451 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The variegated cutworm, Peridroma saucia Hubner, is a lepidopteran pest to a large number of crops in Canada, the United States, and Europe. It was probably naturalized in Japan in the 1970s. The pheromone glands of the female moth include two components with electroantennographic activity in a ratio of 3:1. GC-MS analyses of pheromone extracts untreated and treated with dimethyl disulfide revealed the major component to be (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate and the minor component to be (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetate. The synthetic pheromone was used to attract a large number of males in a vegetable field in Tokyo, which suggests that this species has already become a harmful pest in Japan" |
| Keywords: | Acetates/chemistry/isolation & purification/pharmacology Animals Disulfides/chemistry Electrochemistry Female Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Male Moths/*chemistry/physiology Sex Attractants/*chemistry/isolation & purification/metabolism/pharmacology; |
| Notes: | "MedlineInomata, Shin-ichi Tsuchiya, Satoshi Ikeda, Kazutaka Saito, Osamu Ando, Tetsu eng England 2003/01/01 Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2002 Nov; 66(11):2461-4. doi: 10.1271/bbb.66.2461" |
