Identification of sex pheromone produced by female sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)

R. R. Heath; J. A. Coffelt; P. E. Sonnet; F. I. Proshold; B. Dueben; J. H. Tumlinson

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Identification of sex pheromone produced by female sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)

R. R. Heath, J. A. Coffelt, P. E. Sonnet, F. I. Proshold, B. Dueben, J. H. Tumlinson

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A sex pheromone of the sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers), was obtained from collections of volatiles from virgin females, and pheromone was isolated by means of liquid and gas chromatography. The purification procedure was monitored by quantitative laboratory and field bioassays and the compound was identified as (Z)-3-dodecen-1-ol (E)-2-butenoate by means of spectroscopic and microchemical methods. Synthesis, followed by laboratory and field bioassays, showed that the biological activity of the synthetic material was qualitatively and quantitatively indistinguishable from that of the purified natural product.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1489-1503
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Chemical Ecology
Volume	12
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012367
State	Published - Jun 1986

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Identification of sex pheromone produced by female sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)

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