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Macrosiphum euphorbiae, also known as the potato aphid, is a potato virus vector, associated with decreased tuber production. Feeding, toxicity, and reproductive effects of the major potato glycoalkaloids (α-chaconine and α-solanine), their common aglycone (solanidine), and a nonpotato glycoalkaloid (α-tomatine) and its aglycone (tomatidine) onM. euphorbiae were studied. As expected, neither α-chaconine nor α-solanine had a strong lethal effect on the aphid, but α-chaconine stimulated feeding at low concentrations. Both aglycones were deterrent and lethal at high concentrations and, like α-chaconine and α-tomatine, they delayed the appearance and decreased the number of nymphs.
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Güntner, C., González, A., Reis, R.D. et al. Effect ofSolanum Glycoalkaloids on Potato Aphid,Macrosiphum euphorbiae . J Chem Ecol 23, 1651–1659 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOEC.0000006429.14373.91
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