Semiochemicals for insect pest management*
Torbjörn Norin
Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: Methods for crop protection based on semiochemicals show advantages over methods based on conventional insecticides. Applications of semiochemicals for insect pest management have, however, been limited. Some recent studies carried out in an interdisciplinary research program by five research groups in Sweden are presented. In spite of the chemodiversity in nature, it is striking that many simple and common compounds are important as chemical signals. This paper focuses on some examples of such simple signals, which are now used for monitoring and suppression of pest insects.
Keywords: pheromones; allelochemicals; allomones; kairomones; antifeedants; SPME technique.
*Paper based on a presentation at the 9th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences, 9-13 September 2006, Antalya, Turkey. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 2101-2177.