Termiticidal activity of chitosan against the subterranean termites Reticulitermes flavipes and Reticulitermes virginicus
| Autor: | Dragica Jeremic, Telmah Telmadarrehei, Olanrewaju Raji, Juliet D. Tang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Preservative Insecticides Treatment retention macromolecular substances Isoptera 01 natural sciences Insect Control Chitosan 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Reticulitermes Chitin Species Specificity Reticulitermes virginicus Animals Food science biology Dose-Response Relationship Drug Significant difference technology industry and agriculture General Medicine equipment and supplies Antimicrobial biology.organism_classification Wood carbohydrates (lipids) 010602 entomology 030104 developmental biology chemistry Insect Science Agronomy and Crop Science |
| Zdroj: | Pest management science. 74(7) |
| ISSN: | 1526-4998 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Chitosan is a derivative form of chitin, which is the major component of exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of fungi. The antimicrobial activity of chitosan against lepidopterans, aphids, fungi and bacteria has been extensively investigated, but only one report on the termiticidal effect of chitosan on termites has been published. In this study, we examined the termiticidal activity of chitosan by exposing single colonies of Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) and Reticulitermes virginicus Banks to wood treated with six different concentrations of chitosan solutions. Termite mortality and percent mass loss of wood samples after exposure to termites for 4 weeks were calculated. RESULTS High termite mortality (≥ 94%) occurred during exposure of R. flavipes termites to chitosan-treated wood with ≥38 mg g-1 treatment concentrations (≥ 2% chitosan), while |
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