Dewhirst, S. and Pickett, J.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-3770
2010.
Production of semiochemical and allelobiotic agents as a consequence of aphid feeding.
Chemoecology
20
(2)
, pp. 89-96.
10.1007/s00049-009-0032-8
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Abstract
Aphids have an extremely intimate relationship with their plant hosts. Although this might suggest that aphid infestation would be largely cryptic, there are a wide range of changes that can be detected behaviourally, chemically and also at the molecular genetic level. Colonisation by aphids can cause release of semiochemicals characteristic of the aphid species and besides reducing acceptability to incoming aphids; these can enable recruitment of specific parasitoids. Some semiochemicals involved in these processes can also influence the defence status of neighbouring intact plants through air or the rhizosphere. Electrophysiological and behavioural studies on the aphids, their parasitoids and other organisms facilitate the identification of compounds having direct effects on plant defence. New developments from work on semiochemicals such as (Z)-jasmone and 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, and allelobiotic agents such as 6-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid and 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one, as well as new work on these compounds and others as potential phytopheromones are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Chemistry |
| Publisher: | Springer Verlag (Germany) |
| ISSN: | 0937-7409 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 25 November 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2026 16:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184923 |
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