Fruit fly Bactrocera spp. responses to odour of curry leaves, Murraya koenigii L. Spreng
Bactrocera spp. fruit fly is a major pest for various horticultural crops, particularly fruit trees. The intensity of fruit fly attacks in several Indonesia areas shows a fairly large variation and it needs an intensive control program. Moreover, this research was conducted to determine the semio...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2023
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22436/1/serangga_7.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22436/ https://ejournals.ukm.my/serangga/issue/view/1612/showToc |
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| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Bactrocera spp. fruit fly is a major pest for various horticultural crops, particularly fruit trees.
The intensity of fruit fly attacks in several Indonesia areas shows a fairly large variation and it
needs an intensive control program. Moreover, this research was conducted to determine the
semiochemical compounds of curry leaves for controlling fruit flies. The results showed that
the volatile compounds of curry leaves from the GC-MS analysis were dominated by
compounds of the terpene group, namely caryophyllene compounds (36.9%), hexadecene
compounds (22.72%) and α-selinene compounds (20.43%). Therefore, the results of the odor
detection test carried out on the Y-tube olfactometer showed that male fruit flies were more
attracted to the aroma of curry leaves around 80% than female fruit flies around 57.5%. The
results of this research can be developed as attractant of male fruit flies and trap them so that
later it is expected to reduce fruit fly pest populations. |
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