| Title: | "Electroantennogram Responses to Plant Volatiles Associated with Fenvalerate Resistance in the Diamondback Moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)" |
| Author(s): | Houjun T; Lin S; Chen Y; Chen Y; Zhao J; Gu X; Wei H; |
| Address: | "Institute of Plant Protection, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, China. Fujian Key Laboratory for Monitoring and Integrated Management of Crop Pests, Fuzhou, China. Fuzhou Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Crop Pests of Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou, China. College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1938-291X (Electronic) 0022-0493 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is the main destructive insect pest of brassica vegetables around the world, and has developed resistance to numerous insecticides. Although host plant volatiles are important in pest control, the mechanism of low-level insecticide resistance in P. xylostella due to plant volatiles has not been examined. Here, electroantennograms (EAGs) were used to compare the responses of adult male and female DBMs of a susceptible strain (S-strain) and a derived resistant strain, Fen-R-strain (6.52-fold more resistant than the S-strain), to different concentrations of nine plant volatiles. We found significantly different relative EAG responses between S-strain and Fen-R-strain males to different concentrations of methyl jasmonate, methyl salicylate, and octanal. The relative EAG responses of S-strain and Fen-R-strain females to different concentrations of beta-myrcene, methyl jasmonate, methyl salicylate, and allyl isothiocyanate were significantly different. Fen-R-strain females showed lower EAG responses to most of the tested plant volatiles (at concentrations of 1:10) than males, except for allyl isothiocyanate. A larger difference in relative EAG response to alpha-farnesene and beta-myrcene was found between S-strain and Fen-R-strain females than between males of the two strains. A larger difference in relative EAG response to octanal, nonanal, and octan-1-ol was found between S-strain and Fen-R-strain males than between females of the two strains. These results illustrate the relationship between the function of plant volatiles and resistance in an insect pest species, and provide a scientific basis for resistance evolutionary theory in pest management research" |
| Keywords: | Animals Arthropod Antennae/drug effects/*physiology Female *Insecticide Resistance Insecticides/*pharmacology Male Moths/drug effects/*physiology Nitriles/*pharmacology Odorants/*analysis Plants/chemistry Pyrethrins/*pharmacology Volatile Organic Compound; |
| Notes: | "MedlineHoujun, Tian Lin, Shuo Chen, Yong Chen, Yixin Zhao, Jianwei Gu, Xiaojun Wei, Hui eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2018/02/24 J Econ Entomol. 2018 May 28; 111(3):1354-1360. doi: 10.1093/jee/toy022" |
