Structural requirements for repellency: Norsesquiterpenes and sesquiterpenoid derivatives of nootkatone against the Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Pest Management Science

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 875-878

  Zhu, Betty C R ^a,b   Henderson, Gregg ^a   Sauer, Anne M ^b   Crowe, William ^b   Laine, Roger A ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coptotermes formosanus; Formosan subterranean termite; Nootkatone derivatives; Repellency threshold

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; NOOTKATONE; SESQUITERPENE;

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CLIMBING PLANT; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TERMITE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ISOPTERA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; INSECT REPELLENTS; ISOPTERA; SESQUITERPENES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

CITRUS X PARADISI; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 77954630944     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1956     Document Type: Article

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