Fumigant Toxicity of Essential Oils Against Frankliniella occidentalis, F. insularis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), and Solanum lycopersicum (Solanceae) as Affected by Polymer Release and Adjuvants

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dc.contributor.advisorTay, Jia-Wei
dc.contributor.authorGharbi, Karim
dc.contributor.departmentEntomology
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T22:36:28Z
dc.date.available2022-10-19T22:36:28Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.degreeM.S.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/103947
dc.subjectEntomology
dc.subjectenantioselective toxicity
dc.subjectinsecticide
dc.subjectlinalool
dc.subjectphytotoxicity
dc.subjectresistance
dc.subjectsynergism
dc.titleFumigant Toxicity of Essential Oils Against Frankliniella occidentalis, F. insularis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), and Solanum lycopersicum (Solanceae) as Affected by Polymer Release and Adjuvants
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractSome species of thrips have become significant agricultural pests due to their cosmopolitan distribution, feeding damage and vectorial capacity for plant viruses. However, control of this pest is complicated by their life cycle and resistance to conventional insecticides. I sought to explore a novel method of thrips control that addressed these resistance mechanisms by applying essential oils as fumigants. These essential oils included (R)-linalool, racemic linalool, or a binary combination of (R)-linalool with one of twelve other oils (i.e., peppermint, cedarwood, neem, clove, coconut, jojoba, soybean, olive, α-terpineol, 1,8-cineole, trans-anethole and (R)-pulegone) with distilled water as a control. Essential oils were conditioned into hydrogels and exposed to a pesticide resistant species of thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis), a pesticide naive species (Frankliniella insularis), and a host plant of the former (Solanum lycopersicum). Thrips and tomatoes were first exposed separately in in vitro trials, and then together in caged-plant trials. Pure (R)-linalool and its binary mixture with peppermint oil were the most toxic to both species of thrips and tomatoes in in vitro trials. However, caged-plant trials revealed a greater level of resistance to essential oil fumigation than that predicted by in vitro trials. This resistance was attributed to behavioral resistance mechanisms precluded by in vitro trials. While certain essential oils have demonstrated potential as alternatives to conventional insecticides, glasshouse and field trials are necessary to fully quantify the extent to which the life history traits of thrips contribute to bioinsecticide resistance.
dcterms.extent60 pages
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
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