TY - JOUR AU1 - Wang, Y. AU2 - You, C. X. AU3 - Yang, K. AU4 - Wu, Y. AU5 - Chen, R. AU6 - Zhang, W. J. AU7 - Liu, Z. L. AU8 - Du, S. S. AU9 - Deng, Z. W. AU1 - Geng, Z. F. AU1 - Han, J. AB - The insecticidal and repellent activities of the essential oil extracted from Zingiber purpureum Roscoe rhizomes were evaluated against Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and Lasioderma serricorne (L.) adults. During our screening program for agrochemicals from Chinese medicinal herbs and wild plants, the essential oil of Z. purpureum rhizomes was found to possess strong contact toxicity against T. castaneum and L. serricorne adults, with LD50 values of 39.0 and 16.3g per adult, respectively, and also showed strong fumigant toxicity against the two grain storage insects with LC50 values of 13.6 and 9.3mg/liter of air, respectively. The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation was investigated by gas chromatographymass spectrometry. The main components of the essential oil were identified to be sabinene (48.1), terpinen-4-ol (25.1), and -terpinene (6.7), followed by -terpinene (4.3), -thujene (3.4), and -phellandrene (2.7). Sabinene, terpinen-4-ol, and -terpinene were separated and purified by silica gel column chromatography and preparative thin-layer chromatography. Terpinen-4-ol showed the strongest contact toxicity against T. castaneum and L. serricorne (LD5019.7 and 5.4g per adult, respectively) and also the strongest fumigant toxicity against T. castaneum and L. serricorne (LC503.7 and 1.3mg/liter of air, respectively). Otherwise, sabinene and terpinen-4-ol were strongly repellent against T. castaneum as well as the essential oil, while -terpinene exhibited weaker repellency against T. castaneum compared with the positive control, DEET (N, N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide). Moreover, only the essential oil exhibited strong repellency against L. serricorne, the three compounds exhibited weaker repellency against L. serricorne relative to DEET. TI - Bioactivity of Essential Oil of Zingiber purpureum Rhizomes and Its Main Compounds against Two Stored Product Insects JF - Journal of Economic Entomology DO - 10.1093/jee/tov030 DA - 2015-06-25 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/bioactivity-of-essential-oil-of-zingiber-purpureum-rhizomes-and-its-4DHd0kj2nj SP - 925 EP - 932 VL - 108 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -