Identification of the white peach scale sex pheromone - An illustration of micro techniques

R. R. Heath; J. R. McLaughlin; James Homer Tumlinson, III; T. R. Ashley; R. E. Doolittle

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Identification of the white peach scale sex pheromone - An illustration of micro techniques

R. R. Heath, J. R. McLaughlin, James Homer Tumlinson, III, T. R. Ashley, R. E. Doolittle

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Micro techniques were used to obtain spectroscopic and degradative information from less than 5μg of the sex attractant of female white peach scale, Pseudaulascaspis pentagons (Targioni-Tozzetti) isolated from airborne collections. The pheromone was identified as (Z)-3,9-dimethyl-6-isopropenyl-3,9-decadien-1-ol propionate. Both enantiomers of the Z isomer and also the enantiomers of the E isomer were prepared from (R)-or (S)-limonene. Bioassays of material with minimum enantiomeric purity of 95% showed that at extreme dilution only the R,Z isomer attracted male white peach scale; however activity of the S,Z enantiomer could not be completely excluded.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	941-953
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Chemical Ecology
Volume	5
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00990217
State	Published - Nov 1 1979

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Biochemistry

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