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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adaptations to Furanocoumarins of Pastinaca Sativa by Depressaria Pastinacella (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)
Abstract
dc:descriptionFuranocoumarins are plant secondary compounds toxic to a wide variety of organisms. In the wild parsnip, Pastinaca sativa (Umbelliferae), these compounds are most concentrated in the floral parts. Despite these allelochemicals, the parsnip webworm, Depressaria pastinacella (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae), feeds almost exclusively on the floral parts of this plant and of certain other umbellifers containing furanocoumarins. The allocation patterns of the furanocoumarins in the wild parsnip and the mechanisms by which the parsnip webworm circumvents the toxicity of these compounds were investigated.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Entomology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Nitao, James Kenji
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Berenbaum, May
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8803154
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71106