| Autor: |
Hile AG; USDA/APHIS/WS, National Wildlife Research Center c/o Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3308, USA., Shan Z, Zhang SZ, Block E |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry [J Agric Food Chem] 2004 Apr 21; Vol. 52 (8), pp. 2192-6. |
| DOI: |
10.1021/jf035181d |
| Abstrakt: |
European starlings significantly reduced their consumption of a food mixture that was 50% food-grade garlic oil (GO)-impregnated granules, even after overnight food deprivation, as demonstrated by "one-choice" ("no-choice") tests. Food consumption during 3 h following overnight food deprivation was reduced by 61-65% compared to controls. By testing the same subjects with 25, 10, and 1% mixtures of granules in feed, it was shown that commercial GO granules were repellent to birds in lower concentrations, with more than a 50% decrease in feeding for birds presented with a 10% mixture of commercial GO granules in food and a 17% decrease for the 1% treatment. Products containing GO show considerable promise as inexpensive, environmentally benign, nonlethal bird repellents. In comparing various GO preparations used in this work, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic methods prove to be particularly useful for rapid quantitation of major and minor components without requiring fractionation or isolation procedures, which could adversely effect the less stable components. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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