Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira (2006) 41, 1579-1585

Uemerson Silva da Cunha, José Djair Vendramim, Waldireny Caldas Rocha and Paulo César Vieira (2006)
Frações de Trichilia pallens com atividade inseticida sobre Tuta absoluta
[Fractions of Trichilia pallens with insecticidal activity against Tuta absoluta]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 41 (11), 1579-1585
Abstract: This work aimed at identifying fractions of aqueous and organic extracts of the meliaceous Trichilia pallens with insecticidal activity against the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta (Meyrick). Leaf and twig freeze-dried aqueous extracts (FDA) of T. pallens were resuspended in water at a concentration of 3% and sprayed over tomato leaflets, which were infested with newly-hatched larvae. Larval mortality at 5 and 10 days after infestation (dai) were higher for leaf extracts. In a second set of experiments, 1% leaf extracts were produced by maceration in hexane (HEX), dichloromethane (DIC) and methanol (MET), and tested as described before, using acetone and water as controls. DIC extracts were the most promising as a source of substances with insecticidal activity against T. absoluta larvae, and were further processed and subjected to partition assays, producing fractions in HEX, MET, ethyl acetate (ETA), n-butanol (NBU) and water (WA). After testing, 0.1% WA fraction, obtained from the partition assay of DIC extracts showed the highest insecticidal activity against T. absoluta.
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Database assignments for author(s): José Djair Vendramim

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
control - general

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Phthorimaea absoluta