title: Sex pheromone components of fall cankerworm moth,Alsophila pometaria : Synthesis and field trapping.
abstract: (Z,Z,Z,E)-3,6,9,11-Nonadecatetraene and (Z,Z,Z,Z)-3,6,9,11-nonadecatetraene, sex pheromone components ofAlsophila pometaria, were synthesized by stereoselective Wittig reactions and found to be spectroscopically and chromatographically identical to isolated natural material. Flight-tunnel bioassays and field-trapping experiments confirmed that the two tetraenes together with (Z,Z,Z)-3,6,9-nonadecatriene are sex pheromone components. While traps baited with either tetraene individually captured conspecific males in field-trapping experiments, addition of the triene, which captured no males by itself, to either tetraene resulted in synergistic responses.
authors: Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, S7N OW9, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
authors: J W
authors: JW
authors: Wong
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Palaniswamy
authors: E W
authors: EW
authors: Underhill
authors: W F
authors: WF
authors: Steck
authors: M D
authors: MD
authors: Chisholm