Metabolic profiling and biological capacity of Pieris brassicae fed with kale (...

• Author(s): Fernandes, F. ; Ferreres, F. ; Oliveira, J. ; Valentão, P. ; Pereira, J.A. ; Seabra, R.M. ; Andrade, P.B.
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/5362
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Vegetables of the Brassica group are the most commonly grown and consumed worldwide. Food plants with apparent cancer and cardiovascular di sease-preventing properties include several varieties of Brassica oleraceae. The majority of the herbivorous insect species are specialized feeders, for which the behavioral decision to accept a plant as food or oviposition substrate is mainly related with sensory information. Pieris insects (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) are specialist herbivores of cruciferous plants.