Insects (2021) 12 (9 - 765)
Pasquale Trematerra, Onofrio Marco Pistillo, Giacinto Salvatore Germinara and Marco Colacci (2021)
Bioactivity of cereal- and legume-based macaroni pasta volatiles to adult Sitophilus granarius (L.)
Insects 12 (9 - 765)
Abstract: The attractiveness of ten commercially available Italian macaroni pastas made from different cereals [Triticum durum; Triticum durum (whole wheat); Triticum dicoccum; mixture of five cereals; Triticum turgidum; Triticum turanicum] or legumes (Cicer arietinum; Lens culinaris; Pisum sativum; Vicia faba) to Sitophilus granarius, was compared. S. granarius adults were more attracted to cereal pastas than legume pastas, but the differences in attractiveness were not always significant. Consistent with the results of behavioural bioassays, the mortality of adults over 20 days exposed to pasta samples was 100% with the legume pasta samples and only 8% with the T. turanicum pasta. GC-MS analysis of HS-SPME extracts from the different pasta samples highlighted marked qualitative and quantitative differences, with aliphatic aldehydes and aliphatic alcohols being the most abundant volatile components of cereal- and legume-pastas, respectively. In two-choice behavioural bioassays, insect attraction to a 1:1 combination of T. turanicum and C. arietinum pastas (80%) was even higher than that observed in T. turanicum pasta alone (64%) and in C. arietinum pasta alone (20%). This strongly suggested that the low attractiveness of legume pasta is mainly due to the lack of attractant stimuli rather than emission of repellent compounds.
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Database assignments for author(s): Pasquale Trematerra, Giacinto Salvatore Germinara
Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
pheromones/attractants/traps
Pest and/or beneficial records:
| Beneficial | Pest/Disease/Weed | Crop/Product | Country | Quarant.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitophilus granarius | Flour/bran | Italy | ||
| Sitophilus granarius | Other stored food products | Italy |
