By engineering the petal colour one of the major OSR pest can be controlled: The pollen beetle Meligethes aeneus responds to coloured stimuli. Red flowers were less heavily infested compared to white, yellow, and blue flowers check out --> https://t.co/
Wondr if the #dye changedL 1. Concealed attarctant #volatiles. 2. Created a #dispelling odor 3.Messed up the plant's #stress responses by releasing #repellants 4. Texture changes to petals & not just cisual #confusion All guesses w/o reading #manus
RT @plantae_org: Does yellow/white canola petal colour really attract pollen beetles? Cook et al. (Arthropod-Plant Interactions (2013) 7:24…
RT @plantae_org: Does yellow/white canola petal colour really attract pollen beetles? Cook et al. (Arthropod-Plant Interactions (2013) 7:24…
Does yellow/white canola petal colour really attract pollen beetles? Cook et al. (Arthropod-Plant Interactions (2013) 7:249–258 ) has cunningly dyed canola petals to red and blue to test potential decrease in the number of pollen beetles - and it worked! h
@SekulicCCC Seems similar to Cook et al. 2013 (https://t.co/T1W1DUA6Gd) where white flowers equally attractive to pollen beetles.
RT @SamCook_IPM: My vision of red #OSR via anthocyanin for #IPM https://t.co/sgODYeVpbz is one step closer! Well done China's Fu etal https…
My vision of red #OSR via anthocyanin for #IPM https://t.co/sgODYeVpbz is one step closer! Well done China's Fu etal https://t.co/fOYZRKBu2m https://t.co/86oUh4kvxc