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Park, and S.-E. Cho Study of the relationship between Hoffmann s list smoke components and leaf compounds, biological test, physical properties, blending characteristics of Korean tobacco 59th Tobacco Science Research 1860d. 

This overall synthetic approach has provided the racemic pheromone components for biological testing. The conq ounds have been formulated so that the proportions emitted from dispensers accurately mirrored those from live male beetles, and these blends have been demonstrated to attract both male and female beetles under field conditions (in preparation). 

Chemical,Biological and Physical Tests on Blends. Reported chemical evaluations on the freshly prepared blends include proximate analyses and amino acid analyses. The same analytical procedures described above for ingredients were also used on the blends. 

The assay microorganisms in Polytox are a blend of bacterial strains originally isolated from wastewater [48]. The Polytox kit (Microbiotest Inc., Nazareth, Belgium), specifically designed to assess the effect of toxic chemicals on biological waste treatment, is based on the reduction of respiratory activity of rehydrated cultures in the presence of toxicants. The commercially available kit is specihcally designed for testing wastewaters. Quantative results can be obtained in just 30 minutes. 

A blend of racemic 24, 25, 27, and 29, along with (+)-28 obtained from citronella oil, was prepared and formulated so that the emitted compounds would be in the proportions found from P. cruciferae. The blend was field tested in Canada by Soroka et al. (2005). (Compound 26 was not available in sufficient amounts for inclusion in the study.) They found that the mixture was attractive to both sexes, supporting the original idea that the compounds serve as a pheromone. Furthermore, the blend was synergized by allyl isothiocyanate, a mustard oil from the hosts that was previously found to be attractive to P. cruciferae (see Soroka et al., 2005, for discussion). This biological pattern was like that for the nitidulids, but with completely different chemicals. 

More detailed aspects of hydrocarbon bouquets acting as pheromones and various problematic aspects in revealing their true biological function have been discussed.2, 29° In many cases, however, only extracts of the insect cuticle are used for bioassays, sometimes roughly separated by chromatography into different chemical classes. Tests with synthetic blends have been less frequently performed only such approaches would allow unequivocal assignment of activity to the compounds tested. Actually, in whole extracts or fractions thereof... 

Biological Assay. Prior to bioassay, the hot diet was cooled to 60°C, L-ascorbic acid or a related compound was added, and the mixture was thoroughly blended. Labile derivatives were applied to the surface of the gelled diet at room temperature. Neonate larvae were used in all tests and the growth of larvae on the control diet was compared with that of larvae on test diets. At 1-4-d intervals, up to 40 d, the mean weight of ten to twenty animals was determined. Fecal matter was removed at each observation. Test compounds were obtained or prepared as described previously (5). 

Figure 15.4 Simultaneous recordings of chemical (gas chromatography, GC) and biological (conditioned proboscis extension, CPE ) responses. The upper line shows the volatile components of control oilseed rape flowers, and the lower lines the CPE responses of bees previously conditioned either to the control or to the transformed (OCI) floral volatiles, and tested for the individual components of the blend separated at the effluent of the chromatograph. Arrows indicate the main compounds (linalool and phenyl acetaldehyde) eliciting most of the behavioral activity.

Three different films obtained by a hot pressing procedure of powder mixtures containing plasticized PVA, PVAc with and without bactmal PHB were submitted to the biological degradation of soil microorganisms in a respirometric test aimed at simulating soil burial conditions. The compositions of the blend films are summarized in Table 1. 

Gelatin has been blended with chitosan to improve the biological activity since (i) it contains RGD-like sequences [52] that promote cell adhesion and migration, and (ii) it may form a polyelectrolyte complex with chitosan. Gelatin-chitosan scaffolds have been prepared in a crosslinked and uncrosslinked form and tested for the regeneration of various tissues including skin [17, 19], cartilage [104] and bone [40]. 

Methods of biological utilisation of polyester/cellulose textile blends are based exclusively on the application of cellulolytic enzymes, like cellulases, catalysing the hydrolytic degradation of cellulose to a sugar mixture like glucose or ceUobiose. The recovered polyester components were tested to be recycled in the melt process. ... 

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