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Open AccessSynergistic interaction of thymol with Piper ribesioides (Piperales: Piperaceae) extracts and isolated active compounds for enhanced insecticidal activity against Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Plant secondary metabolites or mixtures in extracts or essential oils are well known to enhance the activity in binary mixtures. The present study is the first to report that thymol synergistically or additive...
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Open AccessChrysoeriol isolated from Melientha suavis Pierre with activity against the agricultural pest Spodoptera litura
Flavonoids, a class of plant phenolic compounds, act as plant defense chemicals. Chrysoeriol is a naturally occurring flavonoid produced by Melientha suavis Pierre. The goal of this study was to investigate the i...
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Effect of Leaf Maturity on Host Habitat Location by the Egg-Larval Parasitoid Ascogaster reticulata
Adoxophyes honmai, a serious pest of tea plants, prefers to lay eggs on mature tea leaves rather than young leaves. Here, we examined a hypothesis that Ascogaster reticulata, an egg-larval parasitoid of A. honmai
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Oviposition preference for leaf age in the smaller tea tortrix Adoxophyes honmai (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) as related to performance of neonates
Adoxophyes honmai Yasuda (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a serious pest of tea plants in Japan. Damage caused by larvae is widely distributed throughout tea plantations, but the modes of ov...
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Sex-specific elicitor from Adoxophyes honmai (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) induces tea leaf to arrest the egg–larval parasitoid Ascogaster reticulata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Ascogaster reticulata Watanabe (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an egg–larval endoparasitoid wasp of several tortricid species, including Adoxophyes honmai Yasuda (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). ...