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Association of Non-host Crop Plants with Mandarin in Host Location and Survival of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae)
Research efforts have been made to develop novel tactics, such as those targeting behavioral control, for management of the Asian citrus psyllid Diapho...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insects in Vegetable Crops
Host plant resistance is an effective approach to manage insect pests in vegetable crops. This approach involves the use of plant traits that deter...
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Transcriptome analysis of the model grass Lolium temulentum exposed to green leaf volatiles
BackgroundForage and turf grasses are routinely cut and grazed upon throughout their lifecycle. When grasses are cut or damaged, they rapidly release...
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Biology of Floral Scent Volatiles in Ornamental Plants
Floral scent has fascinated humans since antiquity and since then played a major aesthetic and commercial role in our lives. Yet, the principal...
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Synergism in Host Selection Behavior of Three Generalist Insects Towards Leaf Cuticular Wax of Sesame Cultivars
Leaf cuticular wax plays important role in host selection, oviposition, and feeding of phytophagous insects. Thus, the role of cuticular wax of...
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Hydrolates: a review on their volatiles composition, biological properties and potential uses
An hydrolate (also known as hydrosol, floral water, aromatic water, or herbal water) is a distillate which is a product of condensation obtained...
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Efficacy of trap** protocols for Agrilus jewel beetles: a multi-country assessment
The genus Agrilus is one of the most diverse insect genera worldwide. The larval feeding activity causes extensive damage in both forests and...
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Predation, but not herbivory, declines with elevation in a tropical rainforest
Naturally, insect herbivore populations are controlled by their plant hosts and predators. These ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ controls influence leaf...
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Spectral Light Treatment Influenced Morpho-Physiological Properties and Carvacrol Accumulation in Indian Borage
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) as an alternative light source for plants had shown to enhance the plant material quality. Indian borage or Plectranthus...
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Non-invasive plant disease diagnostics enabled by smartphone-based fingerprinting of leaf volatiles
Plant pathogen detection conventionally relies on molecular technology that is complicated, time-consuming and constrained to centralized...
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Do plant volatiles confuse rather than guide foraging behavior of the aphid hyperparasitoid Dendrocerus aphidum?
Many species of parasitoid wasps use plant volatiles to locate their herbivorous hosts. These volatiles are reliable indicators of host presence when...
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Develo** Oak Buds Produce Volatile Emissions in Response to Herbivory by Freshly Hatched Caterpillars
Plant responses to damage by insectivorous herbivores are well-documented in mature leaves. The resulting herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs)...
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The terpene synthase (TPS) gene family in kiwifruit shows high functional redundancy and a subset of TPS likely fulfil overlap** functions in fruit flavour, floral bouquet and defence
Volatile terpenes are important compounds that influence fruit flavour and aroma of kiwifruit. Terpenes in plants also impact on the floral bouquet...
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Comparison of the effects of LED light quality combination on growth and nutrient accumulation in green onion (Allium fistulosum L.)
The growth and development and metabolism of plants have different physiological responses to different light qualities. To study the influence of...
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Experimental Growth Conditions affect Direct and Indirect Defences in two Cotton Species
Cotton has been used as a model plant to study direct and indirect plant defence against herbivorous insects. However, the plant growing conditions...
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Fungal Volatiles as Olfactory Cues for Female Fungus Gnat, Lycoriella ingenua in the Avoidance of Mycelia Colonized Compost
The chemical signatures emitted by fungal substrates are key components for mycophagous insects in the search for food source or for suitable...
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Response of Trichogramma pretiosum females (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) to herbivore-induced Bt maize volatiles
Parasitoids use herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPV´s) to locate their hosts. However, little is known about variations in HIPV´s production in...
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Transcriptomic analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum in response to antibacterial volatiles of Bacillus velezensis FZB42
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), produced by a variety of microbial species and used as biological agents, have been demonstrated to play a...
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Methyl jasmonate and copper activate volatiles and antioxidant mechanisms in 'Grecco a Palla' basil produced in vitro
In vitro, shoot apices cultures provide an alternative means for producing secondary metabolites of medicinal and pharmaceutical importance. In this...
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Olfactory responses of Nesidiocoris tenuis to uninfested or conspecific-infested banker plants and Thrips palmi-infested eggplants
The zoophytophagous mirid predator Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is used in the augmentative biological control of Thrips palmi ...
