Detection of volatiles released by diseased potato tubers using a biosensor on the basis of intact insect antennae

The Role of Specific Tomato Volatiles in Tomato-Whitefly Interaction

“…Inside the air volume of the syringe, the odorant accumulated at a concentration proportional to the concentration of the substance in the solution and its vapor pressure according to Henry's law. A reproducible stimulus could be supplied by puffing 5 mL of air over the antenna (Schü tz et al, 1999). Oil dilutions of the synthetic standards to 10 23 and 10 24 were measured at least five times with at least five different insects each in a randomized sequence.…”

Smell Sensors with Insect Antenna

“…[30]. Copyright 2000 Elsevier) of plant damage can elicit different chemical compounds, which can be used as the marker for the detection of plant damage by the biosensors or other chemical sensing instruments [18,36,37]. Therefore, the insect antenna-based smell sensors have great potentials to be applied in the damage detection of different types of plants as well as the detection of different kinds of pathogens that infect plants.…”

Wood production, wood technology, and biotechnological impacts

“…However, virtually every insect examined responds to branched-and linear C-8 compounds as markers for microbial activity (Fäldt et al 1999, Holighaus & Schütz 2006. With this knowledge, biosensors on the basis of insect antennae for the infestation by micro-organisms were established (Schütz et al 1999b). Despite the high performance of this kind of biosensors, their field of application is limited to on-sitemeasurements because of the limited life-time of the biocomponent antennae, ranging from hours to days.…”