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ArticleJournal of chemical ecology2016

Influence of Two Acyclic Homoterpenes (Tetranorterpenes) on the Foraging Behavior of Anthonomus grandis Boh.

D M Magalhães, M Borges, R A Laumann, C M Woodcock, J A Pickett, M A Birkett, Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes

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Article in Journal of chemical ecology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

D M MagalhãesLaboratório de Semioquímicos, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, DF, CEP 70770-900, Brazil.
M BorgesLaboratório de Semioquímicos, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, DF, CEP 70770-900, Brazil.
R A LaumannLaboratório de Semioquímicos, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, DF, CEP 70770-900, Brazil.
C M WoodcockBiological Chemistry and Crop Protection Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK.
J A PickettBiological Chemistry and Crop Protection Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK.
M A BirkettBiological Chemistry and Crop Protection Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK.
Maria Carolina Blassioli-MoraesLaboratório de Semioquímicos, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, DF, CEP 70770-900, Brazil. carolina.blassioli@embrapa.br.
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation · BRRothamsted Research · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/C/00004945
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis, is attracted to constitutive and conspecific herbivore-induced cotton volatiles, preferring the blend emitted by cotton at the reproductive over the vegetative stage. Moreover, this preference was paralleled by the release of the acyclic homoterpenes (tetranorterpenes) (E)-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene (DMNT) and (E,E)-4,8,12-trimethyltrideca-1,3,7,11-tetraene (TMTT) in Delta Opal cotton being higher at the vegetative than at the reproductive stage. Here, we evaluated whether this difference in release of acyclic homoterpenes also occurred in other cotton varieties, and if boll weevils could recognize these compounds as indicators of a specific cotton phenological stage. Results showed that cotton genotypes CNPA TB-90, BRS-293 and Delta Opal all produced higher levels of DMNT and TMTT at the vegetative stage than at the reproductive stage and that these homoterpenes allowed for principal component analysis separation of volatiles produced by the two phenological stages. Electroantennograms confirmed boll weevil antennal responses to DMNT and TMTT. Behavioral assays, using Y-tube olfactometers, showed that adding synthetic homoterpenes to reproductive cotton volatiles (mimicking cotton at the vegetative stage in terms of homoterpene levels) resulted in reduced attraction to boll weevils compared to that to unmodified reproductive cotton. Weevils showed no preference when given a choice between plants at the vegetative stage and the vegetative stage-mimicked plant. Altogether, the results show that DMNT and TMTT are used by boll weevils to distinguish between cotton phenological stages.

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalBiological AssayFemaleGenotypeGossypiumMaleTerpenesWeevilsTerpenesColeopteraCottonCurculionidaeHomoterpenesHost plantOntogeneticPhenological stagesPlant volatiles

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