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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLUCOSINOLATE CONTENT OF CRUCIFEROUS PLANTS AND OVIPOSITION PREFERENCES OF HYLEMYA BRASSICAE (DIPTERA: ANTHOMYIIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

K. S. S. Nair ,
F. L. McEwen  and
V. Snieckus
K. S. S. Nair
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
F. L. McEwen
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
V. Snieckus
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Abstract

Leaves of each of six cruciferous plant species investigated contained glucosinolates. There was no correlation between the total glucosinolate concentration of the species (identity of the glucosinolates unknown) and the oviposition response of the adult cabbage maggot, Hylemya brassicae (Bouché). Tests with chemical fractions isolated from rutabaga root tissue indicated that glucosinolates are the major, and perhaps the only, oviposition-inducing substances present in cruciferous plants. It is suggested that oviposition preferences are governed by the presence of some ’key’ glucosinolates and the absence of inhibitory chemicals.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 10 , October 1976 , pp. 1031 - 1036
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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