Comparative toxicity of essential oils of litsea pungens and litsea cubeba and blends of their major constituents against the cabbage looper, trichoplusia ni

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4833-4837

  Jiang, Zhili ^a,b   Akhtar, Yasmin ^b   Bradbury, Rod ^c   Zhang, Xing ^a   Isman, Murray B ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Ecosafe Natural Products Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

(R) limonene; 1,8 cineole; Cabbage looper; Carvone terpinene; Essential oils; Litsea cubeba; Litsea pungens; P cymene; Topical application; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECTICIDE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; LARVA; LITSEA; MOTH;

ANIMALS; BRASSICA; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LITSEA; MOTHS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; LAURACEAE; LITSEA; LITSEA CUBEBA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 67149096416     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf900274r     Document Type: Article

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