Research Article

Repellent and Feeding Deterrent Activities of Butanolides and Lignans Isolated from Cinnamomum camphora against Tribolium castaneum

Table 1

Feeding deterrent activities of four compounds isolated from the stem barks of C. camphora against T. castaneum.

CompoundFDI (%) (mean ± SE)
Concentrationa (ppm)
15501505001500

(-)-Sesamin (1)8.15 ± 14.67a11.41 ± 12.45b14.60 ± 13.90b
9α-Hydroxysesamin (2)12.77 ± 9.12a14.34 ± 10.89a18.83 ± 7.57ab22.24 ± 3.69ab
Isoobtusilactone A (5)42.85 ± 4.3945.52 ± 9.23a47.60 ± 9.64a50.59 ± 5.67a50.66 ± 4.48a
Isomahubanolide (6)26.90 ± 8.55a31.48 ± 8.19a40.01 ± 2.19ab44.26 ± 3.67ab

a“—” is for the FDI values considered having no feeding deterrent activity; means followed by the same letters in the same column do not have significant differences () in ANOVA analysis (Tukey’s HSD test).