Stimulating effects of .BETA.-myrcene on molting and multiplication of the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus.

• HINODE Yuji

  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University

• SHUTO Yoshihiro

  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University

• WATANABE Hiroyasu

  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University

Abstract

The stimulating effects of monoterpenes in pine trees on the molting and the multiplication of the pine wood nematode were investigated. The results indicated that the molting of the dispersal 4th stage larva (L_IV) to the adult nematode was stimulated by these monoterpenes, especially β-myrcene. The population of the nematode cultured on fungal mats of B. cinerea, A. kikuchiana and C. miyabeanus increased considerably in the presence of a small amount of β-myrcene. This compound seemed to play a hormone-like role for both the molting of L_IV and the multiplication of the nematode.

Journal

• Agricultural and Biological Chemistry

  Agricultural and Biological Chemistry 51 (5), 1393-1396, 1987

  Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry

Keywords

• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Details

• CRID: 1390282681443409792
• NII Article ID: 130000025097
• DOI: 10.1271/bbb1961.51.1393
• COI: 1:CAS:528:DyaL2sXksFKitb4%3D
• ISSN: 18811280
• ISSN: 00021369
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/00021369
• Text Lang: en
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  • CiNii Articles
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