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Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)

Chemical storage pest control is interlinked with many challenges such as environmental pollution and toxicity to humans and animals. Alternative tools are thus being increasingly researched and applied to supplement and/or substitute old-fashioned chemical means. Entomotoxic proteins, such as the l...

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Autores principales: Mantzoukas, Spiridon, Korbou, Georgia, Magita, Alexandra, A. Eliopoulos, Panagiotis, Poulas, Konstantinos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32756491
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology9080204
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author Mantzoukas, Spiridon
Korbou, Georgia
Magita, Alexandra
A. Eliopoulos, Panagiotis
Poulas, Konstantinos
author_facet Mantzoukas, Spiridon
Korbou, Georgia
Magita, Alexandra
A. Eliopoulos, Panagiotis
Poulas, Konstantinos
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description Chemical storage pest control is interlinked with many challenges such as environmental pollution and toxicity to humans and animals. Alternative tools are thus being increasingly researched and applied to supplement and/or substitute old-fashioned chemical means. Entomotoxic proteins, such as the lectins of leguminous seeds, have been shown to be effective alternative control agents against many serious insect pests. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the flour of three leguminous seeds, Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) (the common bean), Vicia faba L. (Fabaceae) (the broad bean) and Glycine max L. (Fabaceae) (the soya bean), against 4th instar larvae of Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The flours were tested at different concentrations. They all demonstrated significant effects on larval mortality, as well as they all induced a decrease in the number of larvae reaching the pupal stage. The flours of P. vulgaris and V. faba were highly insecticidal against T. granarium larvae, especially at the highest concentrations (86.7% for PV100 and 90% for VF100). Our results enrich previous findings on the entomotoxic effect of leguminous plant lectins and highlight P. vulgaris and V. faba lectins as potential alternative control agents against T. granarium.
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spelling pubmed-74649772020-09-04 Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) Mantzoukas, Spiridon Korbou, Georgia Magita, Alexandra A. Eliopoulos, Panagiotis Poulas, Konstantinos Biology (Basel) Article Chemical storage pest control is interlinked with many challenges such as environmental pollution and toxicity to humans and animals. Alternative tools are thus being increasingly researched and applied to supplement and/or substitute old-fashioned chemical means. Entomotoxic proteins, such as the lectins of leguminous seeds, have been shown to be effective alternative control agents against many serious insect pests. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the flour of three leguminous seeds, Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) (the common bean), Vicia faba L. (Fabaceae) (the broad bean) and Glycine max L. (Fabaceae) (the soya bean), against 4th instar larvae of Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The flours were tested at different concentrations. They all demonstrated significant effects on larval mortality, as well as they all induced a decrease in the number of larvae reaching the pupal stage. The flours of P. vulgaris and V. faba were highly insecticidal against T. granarium larvae, especially at the highest concentrations (86.7% for PV100 and 90% for VF100). Our results enrich previous findings on the entomotoxic effect of leguminous plant lectins and highlight P. vulgaris and V. faba lectins as potential alternative control agents against T. granarium. MDPI 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7464977/ /pubmed/32756491 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology9080204 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mantzoukas, Spiridon
Korbou, Georgia
Magita, Alexandra
A. Eliopoulos, Panagiotis
Poulas, Konstantinos
Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title_full Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title_fullStr Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title_full_unstemmed Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title_short Leguminous Seeds Powder Diet Reduces the Survival and Development of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
title_sort leguminous seeds powder diet reduces the survival and development of the khapra beetle, trogoderma granarium everts (coleoptera: dermestidae)
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32756491
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology9080204
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