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Profiling Volatile Terpenoids from Calabrian Pine Stands Infested by the Pine Processionary Moth

  • Vincenza Foti,
  • Fabrizio Araniti,
  • Francesco Manti,
  • Enrica Alicandri,
  • Angelo Maria Giuffrè,
  • Carmelo Peter Bonsignore,
  • Elvira Castiglione,
  • Agostino Sorgonà,
  • Stefano Covino and
  • Maurizio Badiani
  • + 1 author

14 October 2020

Terpenoids make up the biggest and most diversified class of chemical substances discovered in plants, encompassing over 40,000 individual compounds. In conifers, the production of terpenoids, either as oleoresin or emitted as volatile compounds, pla...

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  • Open Access
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Monitoring and Management of the Pine Processionary Moth in the North-Western Italian Alps

  • Chiara Ferracini,
  • Valerio Saitta,
  • Cristina Pogolotti,
  • Ivan Rollet,
  • Flavio Vertui and
  • Luca Dovigo

26 November 2020

The pine processionary moth (PPM), Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis and Schiffermüller, 1775) (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae), is considered one of the main insect defoliators of conifers in Southern Europe and North Africa. The species is oligophagou...