Identificação de compostos voláteis produzidos no sistema predador-presa-tomateiro

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Juliana de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3964
• topic: Inimigos naturais; Tetranychus evansi; Tetranychus urticae; tomate; Natural enemies; Tetranychus evansi; Tetranychus urticae; Tomato plants; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::ENTOMOLOGIA AGRICOLA

Plants protect themselves against herbivore attacks by a combination of constitutive and induced defenses, which reduce the performance of herbivores and decrease the spread of damage. Plants under attack by herbivores release a variety of organic volatile compounds, which are involved in the attraction of natural enemies of herbivores. The natural enemies such as predatory mites and coccinellids, for example, are able to exploit these volatiles to locate their prey, using them as chemical signals for the presence of food. Thus, behavioral studies are important for understanding the interactions that occur between organisms in a food web. As well as the knowledge of the chemical compounds that mediate the location of plants infested with herbivores by natural enemies, in order to have a better understanding of insect-plant interactions mediating the third trophic level. In this study, we investigated the responses of the predators Phytoseiulus longipes, Phytoseiulus macropilis and Cycloneda sanguinea to volatiles from tomato plants infested or not infested with the phytophagous mites Tetranychus evansi or Tetranychus urticae. The main objective was to verify whether these predators are able to discriminate between sources of odors produced by the plant-herbivore complex. We also identified the volatile compounds emitted by plants infested with T. evansi, T. urticae and clean tomato plants. To access these results were used techniques of olfactometry for behavioral tests and GC-MS to identify the compounds. The results show that the tested predators are able to discriminate between volatile tomato plants infested with T. evansi or T. urticae and volatile of clean plants, showing that the plant-herbivore complex releases odors attractive to these natural enemies. But when given the choice between plants infested with T. evansi and plants infested with T. urticae, the predators are not able to discriminate between the two sources of odors produced. The identification of volatile compounds was verified that when comparing clean plants and plants infested with T. evansi or T. urticae was found and identified more volatile compounds in infested plants. When we compare plants infested with T. evansi and plants infested with T. urticae, the profile of the volatile compounds were very similar in both. As for the quantitative analysis of compounds, we found no significant difference between the concentrations of each compound emitted by plants infested with T. evansi and T. urticae. The results obtained through the identification and quantification of volatile compounds may explain the responses obtained in the olfactometer experiments.