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Bioefficacy of compounds from Dittrichia viscosa (Asteraceae) as protectant of chickpea seeds against the cowpea seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

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The efficacy of four bi- and tri-cyclic sesquiterpenes, namely inuloxins A, B and C and α-costic acid, extracted from aerial parts of Dittrichia viscosa collected in Algeria was assessed against the cowpea seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. The compounds were evaluated for their effect on adult mortality, oviposition and adult emergence. Three concentrations (100, 50 and 25 µg/ml) of each compound were tested with chickpea being used as the test plant. Complete adult mortality (100%) was achieved at only 1 day after exposure to inuloxins B and C and α-costic acid with LC50s less than 36 µg/ml. Lethal concentration values (LC50) were determined as 30.4, 35.2, 31.6 and 29.4 µg/ml, respectively, for inuloxins A, B and C and α-costic acid. Oviposition and F1 progeny emergence were significantly reduced (27% and 73%, respectively) after treatment with D. viscosa compounds. Our results also revealed that oviposition, adult emergence and sex ratio varied with the sex of the treated mating partner suggesting that the test compounds may have acted as male (or indirect female) chemosterilants resulting in reduced fecundity and fertility of untreated females that mated with treated males.

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This work was partly supported by the General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSDT, Algeria) within the MEDILEG Project ARIMNet Call 2011. The first author mobility within a PhD program was supported by a Grant from the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS—Algeria).

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  1. Département de Zoologie Agricole, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie (ENSA, ex. INA), 1 Avenue Hassan Badi, 16200, El Harrach, Algiers, Algeria

    Faiza Gueribis, Ouassila Khalfi-Habess & Abderrahmane Siafa

  2. Faculty of Sciences, University Algiers 1, 2 Didouche Mourad Street, 16002, Algiers, Algeria

    Nadjia Zermane

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Universita’ di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia 4, 80126, Naples, Italy

    Alessio Cimmino & Antonio Evidente

  4. Instituto di Scienze della Produzioni Alimentari, CNR, Via Amendola 122/O, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Angela Boari

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Gueribis, F., Zermane, N., Khalfi-Habess, O. et al. Bioefficacy of compounds from Dittrichia viscosa (Asteraceae) as protectant of chickpea seeds against the cowpea seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). J Plant Dis Prot 126, 437–446 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41348-019-00240-w

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