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Effectiveness of several polyunsaturated seed oils as boll weevil feeding deterrents
Author(s) -
Jacobson M.,
Crystal M. M.,
Kleiman R.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02659777
Subject(s) - biology , weevil , botany , horticulture
Prompted by the previous discovery that (9Z,11E,13E)‐9,11,13‐octadecatrienoic acid (α‐eleostearic acid) was one of the compo‐nents responsible for the boll weevil feeding deterrency of tung oil, the seeds of 11 other plant species were extracted with pentane and the oils were evaluated for their feeding deterrency in the laboratory. The oils of Calendula suffruticosa, Centrantbus macro‐siphon, Jacaranda mimosifolia and Momordica cochincbinenis were effective feeding deterrents for the boll weevil.