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Peter Witzgall
Researcher at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Publications - 132
Citations - 6377
Peter Witzgall is an academic researcher from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sex pheromone & Codling moth. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 126 publications receiving 5681 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Witzgall include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
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Sex pheromones and their impact on pest management.
TL;DR: The time is right to intensify goal-oriented interdisciplinary research on semiochemicals, involving chemists, entomologists, and plant protection experts, in order to provide the urgently needed, and cost-effective technical solutions for sustainable insect management worldwide.
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Codling Moth Management and Chemical Ecology
TL;DR: Pheromone-mediated mating disruption has become a commercially viable pest management technique and is used to control the codling moth, Cydia pomonella, a key insect pest of apple, on 160,000 ha worldwide.
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Yeast, not fruit volatiles mediate Drosophila melanogaster attraction, oviposition and development
Paul G. Becher,Paul G. Becher,Gerhard Flick,Elżbieta Rozpędowska,Elżbieta Rozpędowska,Alexandra Schmidt,Arne Hagman,Sébastien Lebreton,Mattias C. Larsson,Bill S. Hansson,Jure Piškur,Peter Witzgall,Marie Bengtsson +12 more
TL;DR: It is shown that baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae on its own is sufficient for fruit fly attraction, oviposition and larval development, and the traditional plantherbivore niche concept needs to be updated, to accommodate for the role of micro-organisms in insectplant interactions.
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Plant odor analysis of apple: antennal response of codling moth females to apple volatiles during phenological development.
Marie Bengtsson,Anna-Carin Bäckman,Ilme Liblikas,Martha I. Ramirez,Anna-Karin Borg-Karlson,Lena Ansebo,Peter J. Anderson,Jan Löfqvist,Peter Witzgall +8 more
TL;DR: The study of apple volatiles eliciting an antennal response, together with a survey of the seasonal change in the release of these compounds, is the first step toward the identification of volatile mediating host-finding and oviposition in codling moth females.
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Host plant volatiles synergize response to sex pheromone in codling moth, Cydia pomonella.
TL;DR: Plant volatile compounds synergize attraction of codling moth males Cydia pomonella to sex pheromone (E,E)-8,10-dodecadien-1-ol (codlemone) with a strong antagonistic effect when blended in a 1:10,000 ratio with codlemone.