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Two diterpenoid alcohols, ent-kauran-16α-ol (1) and ent-atisan-16α-ol (2), were isolated from pre bloom (R3-R4 stage) sunflower heads as oviposition stimulants for the banded sunflower moth, Cochylis hospes. Fractionation of a sunflower head extract, by normal-phase flash column chromatography, resulted in an early eluting fraction exhibiting significant activity in an egg-laying bioassay. Compounds 1 and 2, along with ent-trachyloban- 19-oic acid (3) and ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid (4), were isolated as the major components of this fraction and identified by their NMR and mass spectra. The purified compounds were individually tested for ovipositional activity in dose-response bioassays. In these bioassays, compounds 1 and 2 gave linear dose responses, with increasing numbers of eggs laid as the dosage of either increased. Compounds 3 and 4 failed to stimulate significant egg-laying at any of the dosages tested. A factorial design bioassay, using compounds 1 and 2, showed that 1 was relatively more stimulatory than 2, and that there was no synergistic effect on oviposition when the two compounds were combined.
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MORRIS, B.D., FOSTER, S.P., GRUGEL, S. et al. ISOLATION OF THE DITERPENOIDS, ENT-KAURAN-16α-OL AND ENT-ATISAN-16α-OL, FROM SUNFLOWERS, AS OVIPOSITION STIMULANTS FOR THE BANDED SUNFLOWER MOTH, Cochylis hospes. J Chem Ecol 31, 89–102 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-005-0976-2
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