Eavesdropping on plant volatiles by a specialist moth: significance of ratio and concentration.

We investigated the role that the ratio and concentration of ubiquitous plant volatiles play in providing host specificity for the diet specialist grape berry moth Paralobesia viteana (Clemens) in the process of locating its primary host plant Vitis sp. In the first flight tunnel experiment, using a...

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Main Authors: Dong H Cha, Charles E Linn, Peter E A Teal, Aijun Zhang, Wendell L Roelofs, Gregory M Loeb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3036738?pdf=render

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