Volatiles from endangered <i>Braya longii</i> (Brassicales: Brassicaceae) influence oviposition choice by <i>Plutella xylostella</i> (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Long's Braya, Braya longii Fernald (Brassicales: Brassicaceae), is an endangered plant in the family Brassicaceae found only on the Limestone Barrens of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada. Conservation of this species hinges on management of pests, diseases, and disturbances, which threaten their small populations. In particular, a global agricultural pest, diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L. (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), causes significant damage to persistence of B. longii and contributes to possible extinction. This study investigates if there are key volatiles that attract P. xylostella to B. longii, thereby contributing to the pest's impact on the plant. Headspace collections, GC-MS, and GC-EAD revealed a unique volatile profile for B. longii, with (E)-2-nonenal as a key volatile that elicited strong antennal responses in P. xylostella. Oviposition assays confirmed female preference for E2-nonenal-baited radishes. This finding has implications for P. xylostella pest management, highlights the importance of chemical ecology in both crop protection and endangered species conservation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".