Resistance of Pteridium aquilinum to attack by non-adapted phytophagous insects |
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Authors: | Clive G Jones Richard D Firn |
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Institution: | Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, England |
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Abstract: | Fresh bracken Pteridium aquilinum L. Kühn or crude bracken extracts deterred 9 non-adapted phytophagous insect species from feeding or settling. Feeding deterrent activity to 5 out of 7 insect species was present in crude bracken extracts at all times over the growing season and was significantly highest in May. Sequential isolation and purification of deterrents indicated that the sesquiterpene pterosin F (6-chlorethyl-2,5,7-trimethyl-indan-1-one) occurred in sufficiently high concentrations in late May/early June bracken frond (24–28 mg/kg fresh wt) to be partially responsible for the deterrent effects of crude bracken extracts to two insect species. A number of other fractions had feeding deterrent activity, but these were not characterized or quantified. |
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Keywords: | fern bracken pterosin F sesquiterpene indan-1-one feeding deterrents insect resistance |
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