State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management

of Pest Insects and Rodents

Seminar

Plants “Cry for Help”: Opportunities for Pest Control

Prof. Marcel Dicke

Laboratory of Entomology,

Wageningen University, the Netherlands

2：00 PM, May 17, 2007

D119 Seminar Room, Institute of Zoology, CAS

Organizer: Prof. Chen-Zhu Wang  010-64807115  czwang@ioz.ac.cn

Dr. Marcel Dicke is the professor of Entomology and Head of Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University. His research fields are: Ecogenomics; Chemical ecology; Behavioural Ecology; Multitrophic Interactions; Signal transduction; Induced resistance; Biological control; Host-plant resistance. He has published more than two hundred scientific papers on Science, PNAS, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Oecologia, etc. He received the Netherlands Zoology Prize (1992), the Belgacom Prize (Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, 1996) and NWO-Vici grant (2002). More detail information about him please land:

http://www.ent.wur.nl/NL/medewerkers/Onderzoekstaf/Marcel+Dicke/.

Program

2:00   Prof. Le Kang:  Opening and Introduction

2:10   Prof. Marcel Dicke:  Plants “cry for help”: opportunities for pest control

3:00  Break

3:10  Jia-Ning Wei: Direct and indirect defenses of tomato plants to the agromyzid fly

3:25  Li-Lin Zhao:  Chemotaxis and behavior of the pinewood nematode to volatiles of its host pine and vector

3:40  Qing-Lei Ming: Mechanism and genetics of premating isolation between Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) and H. assulta (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

3:55  Chao Hou: Olfactory receptor neuron distribution and responses of Helicoverpa assulta, H. armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), their F1 hybrids and backcross progenies to sex pheromone components

4:10  Yong-Hong Hu: Sugar in diets induces glucose oxidase activity in saliva and regurgitant of Helicoverpa armigera