Summary. Field tests were performed to evaluate the
response of the garden chafer, Phyllopertha horticola
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) to known scarab attractants and to
investigate the influence of trap colour and height on the
number of captured beetles. Both sexes were attracted by a
lure mixture composed of geraniol, eugenol, and 2-phenylethyl
propionate (PEP) (ratio 3:7:3). When testing floral volatiles
individually, only geraniol, eugenol and methyl anthranilate
but not PEP was attractive. Response of garden chafer to (Z)-
3-hexen-1-ol was strongly male-biassed. Both the response
to floral volatiles and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol was increased by
using funnel traps with yellow instead of grey vanes. Traps
positioned at 50 and 125 cm above ground captured significantly
more garden chafers than those at 200 cm. The
strongly male-biassed response to (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol suggests
that in P. horticola (subfamily Rutelinae) orientation towards plant volatiles emitted upon mechanical damage of plants is
part of the male mate finding strategy as recently demonstrated
for cockchafers of the genus Melolontha (subfamily Melolonthinae). Possible application of plant volatiles for
control of P. horticola is discussed. 相似文献
A species of bacteria that is capable of utilizing imazaquin as the sole carbon source was isolated from soil with repeated imazaquin applications, and was identified as Arthrobacter crystallopoietes (designated as strain “WWX-1”). This isolate degrades imazaquin as high as 200 μg ml−1, and the estimated dissipation half-lives increased from 1.51 d for the treatment at 50 μg ml−1 to 4.75 d for 200 μg ml−1. Optimal growth of WWX-1 in mineral salt medium with 50 μg ml−1 imazaquin was obtained at 35 °C and a pH of 5.0. Growth of WWX-1 was also observed in mineral salt medium with the addition of other imidazolinone herbicides such as imazethapyr and imazapyr, but not with different classes of herbicides such as metsulfuron-methyl. Two imazaquin metabolites were detected, and spectral analysis with HPLC–MS, 1H NMR, and IR revealed one metabolite with a molecular weight (MW) of 199 as quinoline-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride. We propose that A. crystallopoietes (WWX-1) could serve as an efficient biodegradation system for remediation of water and soils that are heavily contaminated with imazaquin or other structurally similar chemicals. 相似文献
The present work focuses on the fate of two cancerostatic platinum compounds (CPC), cisplatin and carboplatin, as well as of two inorganic platinum compounds, [PtCl4]2− and [PtCl6]2− in biological wastewater treatment. Laboratory experiments modelling adsorption of these compounds onto activated sludge showed promising specific adsorption coefficients KD and KOC and Freundlich adsorption isotherms. However, the adsorption properties of the investigated substances were differing significantly. Adsorption decreased following the order cisplatin > [PtCl6]2− > [PtCl4]2− > carboplatin. Log KD-values were ranging from 2.5 to 4.3 , log KOC from 3.0 to 4.7.
A pilot membrane bioreactor system (MBR) was installed in a hospital in Vienna and fed with wastewater from the oncologic in-patient treatment ward to investigate CPC-adsorption in a sewage treatment plant. During three monitoring periods Pt-concentrations were measured in the influent (3–250 μg l−1 Pt) and the effluent (2–150 μg l−1 Pt) of the treatment plant using ICP-MS. The monitoring periods (duration 30 d) revealed elimination efficiencies between 51% and 63% based on averaged weekly input–output budgets. The derived log KD-values and log KOC-values ranged from 2.4 to 4.8 and from 2.8 to 5.3, respectively. Species analysis using HPLC-ICP-MS proofed that mainly carboplatin was present as intact drug in the influent and – due to low log KD – in the effluent of the MBR. 相似文献