Defense chemicals in leaf surface wax synergistically stimulate oviposition by a phytophagous insect

Changes in the Leaf Surface Chemistry of

Changes in the Leaf Surface Chemistry of Apium graveolens (Apiaceae) stimulated by jasmonic acid and perceived by a specialist insect

✍ Volker Stanjek; Christian Herhaus; Ulf Ritgen; Wilhelm Boland; Erich Städler 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 German ⚖ 853 KB

## Abstract Treatment of celery leaves (__Apium graveolens, cv. secalinum__) with Jasmonic acid (JA, 1) or analogues of amino‐acid conjugates of Jasmonic acid such as the leucine conjugate with 1‐oxoindan‐4‐carboxylic acid (IN‐ILE, 2) stimulated the biosynthesis of the furanocoumarins psoralen (6),