Xin Chao Liu1, Qiyong Liu2, Xu Bo Chen3, Ligang Zhou4, Zhi Long Liu1. 1. Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Haidian District, Beijing, China. 2. State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China. 3. College of Ecology, Lishui University, Zhejiang Province, China. 4. Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In our screening programme for new agrochemicals from wild plants, the essential oil of Tetradium glabrifolium (Champ. ex Benth.) T.G. Hartley fruits was found to possess strong larvicidal activity against the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus L. The essential oil was extracted via hydrodistillation, and the constituents were determined by GC-MS analysis. The active compounds were isolated and identified by bioassay-directed fractionation. RESULTS: GC-MS analyses revealed the presence of 19 components with 2-tridecanone (43.38%), 2-undecanone (24.09%), D-limonene (13.01%), caryophyllene (5.04%) and β-elemene (4.07%) being the major constituents. Bioactivity-directed chromatographic separation of the oil led to the isolation of 2-tridecanone, 2-undecanone and D-limonene as active compounds. The essential oil of T. glabrifolium exhibited larvicidal activity against the early fourth-instar larvae of A. albopictus, with an LC50 value of 8.20 µg mL(-1). The isolated constituent compounds, 2-tridecanone, 2-undecanone and D-limonene, possessed strong larvicidal activity against the early fourth-instar larvae of A. albopictus, with LC50 values of 2.86, 9.95 and 41.75 µg mL(-1) respectively. CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that the essential oil of T. glabrifolium fruits and the three constituents have an excellent potential for use in control of A. albopictus larvae and could be useful in the search for newer, safer and more effective natural compounds as larvicides.
BACKGROUND: In our screening programme for new agrochemicals from wild plants, the essential oil of Tetradium glabrifolium (Champ. ex Benth.) T.G. Hartley fruits was found to possess strong larvicidal activity against the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus L. The essential oil was extracted via hydrodistillation, and the constituents were determined by GC-MS analysis. The active compounds were isolated and identified by bioassay-directed fractionation. RESULTS: GC-MS analyses revealed the presence of 19 components with 2-tridecanone (43.38%), 2-undecanone (24.09%), D-limonene (13.01%), caryophyllene (5.04%) and β-elemene (4.07%) being the major constituents. Bioactivity-directed chromatographic separation of the oil led to the isolation of 2-tridecanone, 2-undecanone and D-limonene as active compounds. The essential oil of T. glabrifolium exhibited larvicidal activity against the early fourth-instar larvae of A. albopictus, with an LC50 value of 8.20 µg mL(-1). The isolated constituent compounds, 2-tridecanone, 2-undecanone and D-limonene, possessed strong larvicidal activity against the early fourth-instar larvae of A. albopictus, with LC50 values of 2.86, 9.95 and 41.75 µg mL(-1) respectively. CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that the essential oil of T. glabrifolium fruits and the three constituents have an excellent potential for use in control of A. albopictus larvae and could be useful in the search for newer, safer and more effective natural compounds as larvicides.
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