Pheromone research in sugarcane moth borers of India

Autor: B. Singaravelu, N. Mukunthan, S. Easwaramoorthy
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Sugar Tech. 5:45-49
ISSN: 0974-0740
0972-1525
DOI: 10.1007/bf02943763
Popis: Pheromone is a viable pest management tool especially in sugarcane ecosystem. Host plant resistance despite being the best tool for combating pest menace, is very difficult to develop resistant cultivar with desirable agronomic traits along with wider adaptability. Application of insecticides is made either impractical by the uncommon phenology of the sugarcane plant or uneconomical and ineffective due to the habitat of its pests. Pheromones, unlike bioagents, once identified are amenable for synthesis, industrial level mass production, bulk handling, transport and long time storage. Pioneering and extensive work on sex pheromones have been done at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, on the identification and mass attraction of shoot borer, internode borer and stalk borer moth. Preliminary studies on the sex pheromones of root borer and top borer have also been done. Thrust areas in pheromone research on sugarcane moth borers are a). indigenisation of pheromone synthesis, b) improving the trap design to have operationally and economically viable traps, c) improving the trap efficiency through studies on flight pattern of male moths towards the lures, d) mating behaviour studies to ascertain the attraction of spent males to the traps, e) developing multi-component lures to attract more than one species to a trap, f) research on alarm and epideictic pheromones, g) studies on presence of pheromone receptor stimuli in males and h) controlled release of pheromone synchronising with peak receptive period of males.
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