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PLANT VOLATILE ELICITOR FROM INSECTS
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Patent Number: 6054483
Docket Number: 14293
Serial Number: 8757701
Date Patented: 04/25/2000

Agency:

Agricultural Research Service
Date Filed:
December 3, 1996

Abstract:
The invention relates to a blend of volatile compounds which can attract and/or retain beneficial insects, repel non-beneficial insects, increase the fragrance in flowers or essential oils in plants such as mint, and increase the production of pharmacological compounds such as taxol. Many leafy plants are genetically programmed to react to leaf eating insects by producing protective chemicals. Taxus media, for example, will increase production of taxol and mint will increase production of mint flavor. Besides the primary reaction of the plant, the volatile compounds may induce a secondary reaction in other insects such as attracting desirable insects hoping to feed on the leaf eating insects or repelling further attack by leaf eating insects. It has been found that by spraying plants with a blend of volatile compounds similar to the oral secretions of insect herbivores it is possible to induce the plant to produce these reactive or protective compounds without causing the plant to sustain any leaf damage. Also, adding these volatile compounds to water in a vase will increase the natural fragrance of cut flowers placed in the water.

Inventors:
James H. Tumlinson III
Insect Attractants, Behavior & Basic Bio Res. Lab.
P.O. Box 14565
1700 S. W. 23rd Drive
Gainesville, FL 32604
(352) 374-5730
(352) 374-5707--fax

Industry Keywords:

corn, cotton, barley, beans, citrus, arthropod plant pests, greenhouse, field, defense protein synthesis, tuber formation, potato, terpenoid, biocontrol, crop protection

 
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