The responses of the cabbage seed weevil Ceutorhynchus assimilis to volatile compounds from oilseed rape in a linear track olfactometer

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-262

  Bartlet, E ^a   Blight, M M ^a   Lane, P ^a   Williams, I H ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(Z) 3 hexen 1 ol; Brassica napus; Cabbage seed weevil; Ceutorhynchus assimilis; Cyanides; Host plant volatile; Methyl salicylate; Nitriles; Oilseed rape; Olfactometer

Indexed keywords

CABBAGE SEED WEEVIL; ODOUR RESPONSE; OILSEED RAPE; OLFACTOMETER; VOLATILE CHEMICAL;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICACEAE; BRUCHINAE; CEUTORHYNCHUS ASSIMILIS; CEUTORHYNCHUS OBSTRICTUS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; INSECTA; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 0031406548     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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