Green, Paul W. C., Belmain, Steven R. ORCID: 0000-0002-5590-7545, Ndakidemi, Patrick A., Farrell, Iain W. and Stevenson, Philip C. ORCID: 0000-0002-0736-3619 (2017) Insecticidal activity in Tithonia diversifolia and Vernonia amygdalina. Industrial Crops and Products, 110. ISSN 0926-6690 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2017.08.021)

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Abstract

The diversity of synthetic pesticides has been reduced through regulation especially in the European Union leading to a resurgence of interest in natural plant products for pest control. Here we investigated two Asteraceae species, Tithonia diversifolia and Vernonia amygdalina that are used by farmers in Africa in bio rational pest control to determine the chemical basis of activity against pests of stored legumes and identify plant compounds with commercial potential. The cowpea beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, an ubiquitous pest of African stored grain legumes, was exposed to extracts of both plant species at 10, 1 and 0.1% w/v and fractions of these extracts at representative concentrations. Extracts and fractions were toxic to recently emerged adults, but did not reduce oviposition by those females that survived. The sesquiterpene, Tagitinin A, was isolated from one of the active fractions and identified using H1 and C13-NMR and shown also be toxic to C. maculatus and so partially explains the activity of the whole plant. Other compounds in the active fractions were identified, at least to structural class, using high resolution mass spectroscopy (HRESI-MS). Sequiterpenes and flavones were common to fractions from both plants. Stigmostane steroidal saponins were the most abundant secondary metabolites in V. amygdalina.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Callosobruchus maculatus, Sesquiterpenes, Botanical insecticide, Pesticidal plants, saponins.
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Agriculture, Health & Environment Department Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Chemical Ecology Research Group
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2019 01:38
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/17550

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