| Title: | "Zingerone in the Flower of Passiflora Maliformis Attracts an Australian Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Jarvisi (Tryon)" |
| Author(s): | Park SJ; Faveri SG; Cheesman J; Hanssen BL; Cameron DNS; Jamie IM; Taylor PW; |
| Address: | "Applied BioSciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. Horticulture and Forestry Science, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mareeba, QLD 4880, Australia. Department of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia" |
| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules25122877 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1420-3049 (Electronic) 1420-3049 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Passiflora maliformis is an introduced plant in Australia but its flowers are known to attract the native Jarvis's fruit fly, Bactrocera jarvisi (Tryon). The present study identifies and quantifies likely attractant(s) of male B. jarvisi in P. maliformis flowers. The chemical compositions of the inner and outer coronal filaments, anther, stigma, ovary, sepal, and petal of P. maliformis were separately extracted with ethanol and analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Polyisoprenoid lipid precursors, fatty acids and their derivatives, and phenylpropanoids were detected in P. maliformis flowers. Phenylpropanoids included raspberry ketone, cuelure, zingerone, and zingerol, although compositions varied markedly amongst the flower parts. P. maliformis flowers were open for less than one day, and the amounts of some of the compounds decreased throughout the day. The attraction of male B. jarvisi to P. maliformis flowers is most readily explained by the presence of zingerone in these flowers" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Australia Behavior, Animal/drug effects Female Flowers/*chemistry Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Guaiacol/*analogs & derivatives/chemistry/isolation & purification Male Passiflora/*chemistry Pheromones/chemistry Tephritidae/*physiology Gc-ms;" |
| Notes: | "MedlinePark, Soo Jean Faveri, Stefano G De Cheesman, Jodie Hanssen, Benjamin L Cameron, Donald N S Jamie, Ian M Taylor, Phillip W eng IC150100026/Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation/ Switzerland 2020/06/26 Molecules. 2020 Jun 22; 25(12):2877. doi: 10.3390/molecules25122877" |
