What is it about?
Herbivorous insects choose to attack certain plants based on various cues. We can record the ability of their antennae to smell various odours at single sensilla or nerve level.
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Why is it important?
Explaining how insects choose their hosts can help us to predict their host range. This can be important to assess risk to valued plants from new organisms, both weed biocontrol agents and pests.
Perspectives
This work is providing valuable new insights into the olfactory world of moths.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Antennal olfactory sensory neurones responsive to host and nonhost plant volatiles in gorse pod moth Cydia succedana
, Physiological Entomology, April 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/phen.12234.
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