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Both, G. mellonella and S. exigua, are most important pests in tropical countries. G. mellonella has five to six generations per year (Abid et al. 1997; Ali 1996), there, and feeding in bee combs they find, besides wax, residues of honey, insect skin and pollen (Hachiro & Knox 2000). Li et al. (1987) have shown the efficacy of Bacillus thuringiensis aizawai against G. mellonella. It is registered in the EU as Mellonex for its control, but NeemAzal T/S may also be active, and will have some advantages (Leymann et al. 2000, Melathopoulos et al. 2000). Therefore we conducted new studies here, on the results we shall report. S. exigua is an important polyphagous pest of crops in tropical areas (Brown & Dewhurst 1975). By repeated control with synthetic insecticides, especially by illiterate farmers (Armes et al. 1992; Aggarwal et al. 2006a) resistance to a lot of those insecticides has been built up, making plant protection very difficult. Therefore the need is pronounced for microbial and botanical pesticides (Nagarkatti 1982; Rao et al. 1990), which have different modes of action than synthetic insecticides. Aggarwal et al. (2006b) have started to test such ingredients, but the time of observation was too short (3 days), since the effects of Neem products occur later than those of synthetic insecticides (Basedow et al. 2002). So we conducted new, longer lasting experiments (with 5 to 30 days), on which we give a report here. The experiments were conducted during guest stays of the three co-authors (from Mymensingh, Bangladesh, from Nazreth, Ethiopia, and from Khartoum, Sudan) at the Experimental Station of the Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology at Giessen Univerity.
Die Glucosinolate (GS) sind charakteristische sekundäre Pflanzeninhaltsstoffe, vorkommend in der Gruppe der Brassicaceae und anderen Familien der Ordnung Brassicales (Halkier & Gershenzon 2006). Bisher sind mehr als 120 verschiedene GS beschrieben, welche eine gemeinsame Grundstruktur mit variablem Seitenkettenrest kennzeichnet (Fahey et al. 2001). Je nach chemischer Natur der Seitenkette werden die GS in aliphatische, aromatische und Indolyl-GS unterteilt. Alle GS-enthaltenden Pflanzen besitzen zusätzlich räumlich getrennt von den GS hydrolysierende Enzyme, so genannte Myrosinasen. Erst nach Zellbeschädigung kommen die beiden Komponenten in Kontakt zueinander und weitere biologisch aktive Verbindungen wie z. B. Isothiocyanate und Nitrile werden freigesetzt (Rask et al. 2000). Das GS-Myrosinase-System ist ein effektives Abwehrsystem insbesondere gegenüber generalistischen Insekten, Pathogenen und Bakterien, allerdings dienen vielen spezialisierten Insekten diese Stoffe zur Wirtspflanzenfindung und -akzeptanz (Renwick 2002, Halkier & Gershenzon 2006). Die Modellpflanze Arabidopsis thaliana L. enthält als Vertreter der Brassicaceae GS als Fraßabwehrstoffe. In A. thaliana als auch in Brassica ist das aliphatische GS-Muster sehr variabel, wohingegen die Indolyl-GS weit verbreitet sind (Kliebenstein 2001, Li & Quiros 2002). Allerdings fehlen Studien zur Funktion dieser GS-Klassen innerhalb der Pflanzenresistenz gegenüber Phytophagenfraß. Deshalb wurden zwei A. thaliana -Mutanten mit verändertem aliphatischen bzw. Indolyl-GS-Profil im Vergleich zu Columbia WT auf die Wirtspflanzeneignung für drei verschieden spezialisierte Lepidoptera-Arten getestet.
Two botanical pesticides, Neem Azal-T/S (NA) and Quassia amara, one biopesticide, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai (Bta) and one combination of Bta + NA were tested against 2nd and 4th instar larvae of the noctuids Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) and Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) on field beans under both laboratory and greenhouse conditions. The maximum mortality of 58 and 27 % was obtained in Bta + NA treatments in case of 2nd and 4th instar larvae of H. armigera under laboratory conditions followed by Bta (50 and 14 %) and NA (34 and 7 %) alone treatments. Under greenhouse conditions a mortality of 69 and 26 % was observed in case of Bta + NA treatments in 2nd and 4th instar larvae of H. armigera followed by Bta (67 and 20 %) and NA (56 and 10 %) alone. The mortality of H. armigera larvae was higher under greenhouse conditions. There was a significant difference in the mortality between 2nd and 4th instar larvae both under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. The mortality of H. armigera was higher in 2nd instar than in the 4th instar larvae in all treatments. Similar results were obtained in case of S. exigua both under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. The results indicate that Bta and NA have the potential to the control of H. armigera and S. exigua either independently or in combination, when used at the right stage of the field populations. The uassia-extracts tested did not show a high efficacy against larvae of H. armigera and S. exigua.