Mamestra configurata

Morris, O.N., Converse, V., Kanagaratnam, P., and Cote, J.C. 1998. Isolation, characterization, and culture of Bacillus thuringiensis from soil and dust from grain storage bins and their toxicity for Mamestra configurata (Lepidoptera Noctuidae). Can. Entomol. 130, 515-537. 

HEGEDUS, D BALDWIN, D., O GRADY, M., BRAUN, L., GLEDDIE, S., SHARPE, A., LYDIATE, D., ERLANDSON, M., Midgut proteases from Mamestra configurata (Lepidoptera Noctuidae) larvae Characterization, cDNA cloning, and expressed sequence tag analysis. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol, 2003, 53, 30-47. 

It is interesting that parasitism by . sonorensis of two non-permissive hosts, the velvetbean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis. and the bertha armyworm, Mamestra configurata, did not stimulate the production of the glycoprotein by those hosts (107). 

Seedlings of Sinapis alba (mustard) have high concentrations of sinalbin (1) (20 mM in cotyledons and 10 mM in leaves) and are resistant even to the attacks of flea beetles and the bertha army worm, Mamestra configurata (Bodn-aryk, 1991). The resistance that sinalbin confers appears to... 

The hairpencil secretion of the adult male bertha armyworm, Mamestra configurata, contains 2-phenylethanol (465, 466). Radioactive labelling experiments with male pharate adults indicated that it is synthesized from phenylalanine (466). The proposed biosynthetic pathway entails the irreversible loss of ammonia from phenylalanine to yield tra s-cinnamic acid, decarboxylation to styrene, and hydration of the styrene to yield 2-phenylethanol (466). The production of 2-phenylethanol from phenylalanine is well established in microorganisms (467—470). 

Clearwater, J. R. Pheromone metabolism in male Pseudoletia separata (Walk.) and Mamestra configurata (Walk.) (Lepidoptera Noctuidae). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 

Weatherston, j., and J. E. Percy The biosynthesis of phenethyl alcohol in the male bertha army worm, Mamestra configurata. Insect Biochem. 6, 413—417 (1976). 

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