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Zingerone in the Flower of Passiflora maliformis Attracts an Australian Fruit Fly, Bactrocera jarvisi (Tryon)

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Park, S. J., De Faveri, S. G., Cheesman, J., Hanssen, B. L., Cameron, D. N. S., Jamie, I. M. and Taylor, P. W. (2020) Zingerone in the Flower of Passiflora maliformis Attracts an Australian Fruit Fly, Bactrocera jarvisi (Tryon). Molecules, 25 (12). ISSN 1420-3049

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Article Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25122877

Abstract

Passiflora maliformis is an introduced plant in Australia but its flowers are known to attract the native Jarvis’s fruit fly, Bactrocera jarvisi (Tryon). The present study identifies and quantifies likely attractant(s) of male B. jarvisi in P. maliformis flowers. The chemical compositions of the inner and outer coronal filaments, anther, stigma, ovary, sepal, and petal of P. maliformis were separately extracted with ethanol and analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Polyisoprenoid lipid precursors, fatty acids and their derivatives, and phenylpropanoids were detected in P. maliformis flowers. Phenylpropanoids included raspberry ketone, cuelure, zingerone, and zingerol, although compositions varied markedly amongst the flower parts. P. maliformis flowers were open for less than one day, and the amounts of some of the compounds decreased throughout the day. The attraction of male B. jarvisi to P. maliformis flowers is most readily explained by the presence of zingerone in these flowers.

Item Type:Article
Business groups:Horticulture and Forestry Science
Keywords:passion fruit flower Jarvis’s fruit fly phenylpropanoids raspberry ketone cuelure GC-MS
Subjects:Science > Entomology
Plant culture > Food crops
Plant culture > Fruit and fruit culture
Plant pests and diseases
Live Archive:24 Aug 2020 23:43
Last Modified:03 Sep 2021 16:46

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