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Role of fruit volatiles of different guava varieties in attraction and oviposition behaviors of peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders

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The present study was conducted to determine the role of guava fruit volatiles in attraction, oviposition and associated fitness parameters of the peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders, which is a key pest of guava and many other fruits. B. zonata female flies’ attraction was observed in a Y-tube olfactometer using fruits of three locally grown guava varieties; Gola, Larkana Small Surahi (LSS) and Larkana Large Surahi (LLS). Female flies showed significantly higher levels of attraction to both un-infested and infested guava fruit odors compared to control (blank). In pairwise comparisons between different fruit varieties, females B. zonata showed significantly greater levels of attraction towards un-infested Gola compared to un-infested LSS, while in the case of the same variety, significantly higher number of flies were attracted to un-infested compared to infested fruit in all three tested varieties. In two-choice oviposition bioassays, B. zonata females made significantly more visits, greater numbers of ovipositions, spent a significantly longer time, and larger numbers of pupae and adults developed on Gola fruits compared to LSS fruits. However, in no-choice bioassays, females made more visits and spent a significantly greater amount of time on LSS compared to Gola and LLS. GC–MS analysis of guava headspace revealed presence of aliphatic and aromatic esters as a dominant group of compounds in both un-infested and fruit-fly-infested guava fruits, with a higher quantity mostly occurring in fruit-fly-infested fruits. Role of guava volatiles is discussed in an ecological context of attraction and oviposition behaviors of adult females and fitness of their offspring.

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We are highly thankful to the Department of Entomology, BZU Multan and Department of Chemistry, CUI, Abbottabad, Pakistan for providing the facilities for behavioral and chemical analysis. BZU and EXTEMIT-K, FFWS, CULS, Prague, Czech Republic are also acknowledged for financial support during writing of this manuscript. Fulbright Association and USEFP are acknowledged for Fulbright Fellowship grant to MB.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Muhammad Binyameen, Abdul Hamid, Imran Afzal, Muhammad Sajjad, Syed Muhammad Zaka, Zahid Mehmood Sarwar & Zahid Mehmood Sarwar

  2. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, EXTEMIT-K, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, Prague 6, Suchdol, 165 21, Czech Republic

    Muhammad Binyameen & Fredrik Schlyter

  3. Department of Entomology, Center for Chemical Ecology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Muhammad Binyameen & Thomas C. Baker

  4. Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, 22060, Pakistan

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Binyameen, M., Hamid, A., Afzal, I. et al. Role of fruit volatiles of different guava varieties in attraction and oviposition behaviors of peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 15, 95–106 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-020-09796-z

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