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Published on: December 18, 2011
[Component and content changes of volatiles from Chinese cabbage damaged by Plutella xylostella]
Guang Yang1, Minsheng You, Hui Wei
1College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China. yxg@fjau.edu.cn
Abstract:
The study showed that Chinese cabbage, Brassica campestris could release a variety of volatiles, especially when infested by Plutella xylostella larvae. Among these volatiles, saturated hydrocarbon was dominant, aromatic hydrocarbon was the second, and unsaturated hydrocarbon, aldehyde, alcohol, ketone, acid and heteroaromatic compounds were existed with a small amount. Chinese cabbage damaged by Plutella xylostella larvae produced 3 times of volatiles in amount with more species than the control. The volatiles from control plants were mostly of small molecular weight, and those from Chinese cabbage damaged by Plutella xylostella were mostly of high molecular weight.
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