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dc.contributor.authorNdiege, I. O.
dc.contributor.authorBudenberg, W. J.
dc.contributor.authorKarago, F. W.
dc.contributor.authorHansson, B. S.
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T12:48:17Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T12:48:17Z
dc.date.issued1993-02
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Chemical Ecology February 1993, Volume 19, Issue 2, pp 267-277en_US
dc.identifier.issn0098-0331
dc.identifier.other1573-1561
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/10801
dc.descriptionDOI 10.1007/BF00993694en_US
dc.description.abstractMale and femaleCosmopolites sordidus were attracted to freshly cut banana rhizome and pseudostem in a still-air olfactometer. Females responded similarly to odors from a comparatively resistant and from a susceptible cultivar of banana, when presented as either freshly cut tissue or as Porapak-trapped volatiles. Females were also attracted to rotting banana pseudostem and to volatiles collected from it. Males and females gave similar responses to host tissue in both the behavioral bioassay and to collected volatiles in EAG recordings. Weevils did not respond, either behaviorally or electrophysiologically, to a synthetic mixture of mono- and sesqiterpenes, which made up over 9% of the volatiles collected from pseudostem.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.subjectColeopteraen_US
dc.subjectCurculionidaeen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolites sordidusen_US
dc.subjectbananaen_US
dc.subjectweevilen_US
dc.subjectMusa sp.en_US
dc.subjectpseudostemen_US
dc.subjectrhizomeen_US
dc.subjectEAGen_US
dc.subjectolfactometeren_US
dc.titleBehavioral and electrophysiological responses of the banana weevilCosmopolites sordidus to host plant volatilesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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