New insights in analysing parasitoid attracting synomones: early volatile emission and use of stir bar sorptive extraction |
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Authors: | Nadia Scascighini Letizia Mattiacci Marco D’Alessandro Alan Hern Anja Sybille Rott Silvia Dorn |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Plant Sciences/Applied Entomology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Clausiusstrasse 25/NW, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland;(2) Present address: Faculté des Sciences, NCCR Plant Survival, Université de Neuchâtel, Emil-Argand 11, CH-2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland;(3) Present address: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, , 7 Whitefriars Crescent, Perth, UK |
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Abstract: | Summary. It is well known that feeding by Pieris brassicae caterpillars on cabbage leaves triggers the release of volatiles that attract natural antagonists such as the parasitoid Cotesia glomerata. The temporal dynamics in the emissions of parasitoid attracting volatiles has never been elucidated in this system. In a time course experiment, caterpillar infested leaves attracted the parasitoid within one hour after infestation. At such an early stage of infestation, as much as fifty percent of the parasitoids flew towards the infested plant in a wind tunnel bioassay, while only five percent flew towards the non-infested control plant. Three hours after infestation and later, the response to the volatiles from the infested plant reached its maximum and then continued at a constantly high level for the remaining 14 hours of the experiment. Chemical analyses of volatiles collected from infested leaves at short time intervals during the first 24 hours identified a total of ten compounds, comprising green leaf volatiles, terpenoids, and a nitrile. Significant increase of emission within the first 5 hours following initial herbivory was detected for (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, (Z)-3-hexen-1-yl acetate, cineole and benzylcyanide. Subsequently, a coupled bioassay-chemical analysis procedure was developed allowing for testing and analyzing the same sample for future identification of the bioactive compounds. This was achieved by using stir bar sorptive extraction for the analysis of solvent extracts of caterpillar-damaged leaves. |
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Keywords: | Tritrophic interactions time course experiment Brassica oleracea Pieris brassicae Cotesia glomerata stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) synomones parasitoid behaviour |
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