Publications
| molecular identification of mealybugs (hemiptera: pseudococcidae) found on korean pears. | mealybugs are under a strict regulation at foreign trades of agricultural products because they are one of the most economically damaging groups of insects on food crops and ornamental plants. however, the absence of morphological characteristics enabling the discrimination of early life stages often cause a significant delay or rejection of a shipment when infested fruit is discovered, causing significant economic loss. a polymerase chain reaction-based method for species identification was dev ... | 2010 | 20214364 |
| a new class of mealybug pheromones: a hemiterpene ester in the sex pheromone of crisicoccus matsumotoi. | mealybugs, which include several agricultural pests, are small sap feeders covered with a powdery wax. they exhibit clear sexual dimorphism; males are winged but fragile and short lived, whereas females are windless and less mobile. thus, sex pheromones emitted by females facilitate copulation and reproduction by serving as a key navigation tool for males. although the structures of the hitherto known mealybug pheromones vary among species, they have a common structural motif; they are carboxyli ... | 2012 | 22751867 |