Bioactivity of Indonesian mahogany, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), against the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Bioatividade do mogno da Indonésia, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), contra o besouro-das-farinhas, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Bioactivity of Indonesian mahogany, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), against the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Bioatividade do mogno da Indonésia, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), contra o besouro-das-farinhas, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Sahana Parvin^I,II; Xin-Nian Zeng^I,IV; Md. Touhidul Islam^III

^IKey Laboratory of Natural Pesticide and Chemical Biology of the Ministry of Education, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, PR China

^IITraining and Communication Wing, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701, Bangladesh

^IIIDepartment of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia [e-mail]

^IVCorresponding author: [e-mail]

ABSTRACT

Bioactivity of Indonesian mahogany, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), against the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). The insecticidal activity of Toona sureni (Blume) Merr. was evaluated considering repellency, mortality and progeny production of F₁ adults of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Dried extract of seeds of T. sureni was dissolved in acetone to prepare solution of various concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 2.5 and 5.0%). To test for repellency, the insects were exposed to treated filter paper. Mortality of larvae, pupae and adults was evaluated by the treatment of spraying the insects with different concentrations of T. sureni extract. Residual effect of the extract was also evaluated considering the production of progeny of F₁ adults. The highest repellency (93.30%) of T. castaneum occurred at the highest concentration (5.0% suspension of T. sureni); while the lowest (0.0%) repellency occurred at 0.5% suspension after 1 day of treatment. The highest mortality against adults (86.71%), larvae (88.32%) and pupae (85%) occurred at 5% suspension at 8 days after application. There was a negative correlation between the concentrations of T. sureni and the production of F₁ adult's progeny of T. castaneum. The highest number of progeny (147) of T. castaneum occurred in the control at 7 days after treatment; and the lowest number of progeny (43) occurred at 5.0% concentration in 1 day after treatment. The results show that T. sureni is toxic to T. castaneum and has the potential to control all stages of this insect in stored wheat.

Keywords: Insect mortality; plant extract; repellency; residual effect; stored wheat.

RESUMO

Bioatividade do mogno da Indonésia, Toona sureni (Blume) (Meliaceae), contra o besouro-das-farinhas, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). A atividade inseticida de Toona sureni (Blume) Merr. foi avaliada considerando repelência, mortalidade e a produção de progênie de adultos F₁ de Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Extrato seco de sementes de T. sureni foi dissolvido em acetona, para preparar soluções de várias concentrações (0,5; 1,0; 2,5 e 5,0%). Para testar a repelência, os insetos foram expostos a papel de filtro tratado. A mortalidade de larvas, pupas e adultos foi avaliada pulverizando os insetos com diferentes concentrações do extrato de T. sureni. O efeito residual do extrato também foi avaliado pela produção de progênie dos adultos F₁. A maior repelência (93,30%) de T. castaneum ocorreu na maior concentração (5,0% suspensão de T. sureni); enquanto que a mais baixa repelência (0%) ocorreu na suspensão de 0,5% em um dia após o tratamento. A mortalidade mais elevada de adultos (86,71%), larvas (88,32%) e de pupas (85%) ocorreu com a suspensão a 5%, aos oito dias após a aplicação. Houve uma correlação negativa entre a concentração das suspensões de T. sureni e a produção de progênie de T. castaneum. O maior número de progênie (147) foi produzido na testemunha aos sete dias após o tratamento; enquanto o menor número de progênie (43) foi na suspensão de 5,0% no primeiro dia após o tratamento. Os resultados demostram que T. sureni é tóxico para T. castaneum e tem potencial para ser usado no controle de todos os estágios deste inseto em trigo armazenado.

Palavras-chave: Efeito residual; extrato de plantas; mortalidade de insetos; repelência; trigo armazenado.

Stored products of agricultural and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetle pests, 70 species of moths and about 355 species of mites causing quantitative and qualitative losses and insect contamination in food commodities is an important quality control problem of concern for food industries (Rajendran & Sriranjini 2008). Plant extracts contain compounds that show ovicidal, repellent, antifeedant, sterilization and toxic effects in insects (Isman 2006). The toxicity may be by contact, ingestion or through fumigant action. Focus on the vapour or fumigant toxicity of essential oils of plants and their constituents has sharpened since the 1980s. There are many reviews dealing with the use of plant products in general, against insect pests of stored products (Weaver & Subramanyam 2000; Isman 2006), specifically on essential oils (Singh & Upadhyay 1993; Regnault-Roger 1997) and others only on monoterpenoids (Coats et al. 1991).

The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst., 1797) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), is a serious pest of stored cereals in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is generally found in granaries, mills and warehouses, feeding on wheat flour, rice flour, and other processed cereals. Since it is not a secondary pest, larva nor adult generally damage sound grains, but they feed on kernels already broken or damaged by other pests (Apert 1987). The presence of the red flour beetle in stored foods directly affects both the quantity and quality of the commodity (Mondal 1994). Synthetic insecticides have been successfully used to protect stored grains from insect infestations, but their indiscriminate and massive use have created serious problems such as hazards to the environment including human health and toxic to non-target organisms (Sighamony et al. 1986), residues in food grains (Fishwick 1988), environmental pollution (Wright et al. 1993), and development of resistant strains (Zettler & Cuperus 1990). Finding safe alternatives to synthetic insecticides to protect stored grains and grain products from insect infestations are highly desirable.

The Indonesian mahogany, Toona sureni (Blume) Merr. (1917) (Meliaceae), is a medium-sized to fairly large tree, up to 40–60 m tall and diameter up to 100 cm (300 cm in mountainous areas) with dark brown young branches. The trunk is branchless for up to 25 m; bark is usually fissured and flaky, whitish, grayish brown or pale brown, scented when cut. It is a genus of six species of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native from eastern China to south India, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Toona australis and T. ciliata are important timber trees, providing a valuable hardwood used for furniture, ornamental panelling, shipbuilding, etc. Some authorities treat these two as the same species, under the name T. ciliata. Toona sinensis is of interest as by far the most cold-tolerant species in the Meliaceae, native in China as far north as 40ºN in the Beijing area. It is the only member of the family that can be cultivated successfully in northern Europe, where it is planted as an ornamental tree in parks and avenues (biosphere.biologydaily.com/biology/Toona).

An alternative eco-friendly strategy for the management of noxious insect pests has been searched to reduce harmful effects of chemical insecticides. The appropriate use of botanical pesticides can play a significant role in sustainable crop protection by providing a stable pest management program. Natural products are well known to have a range of useful biological properties against insect pests (Arthur 1996). The effectiveness of many botanical oils against stored grain insects has already been demonstrated (Dunkel & Sears 1998). Many types of spices and herbs are known to possess anti-insect activities especially in the form of essential oils (Tripathi et al. 1999). Also, it may be possible to use botanical extracts, edible oil and/or develop environmental manipulation strategies for effective insect control (Zewar 1993; Xie et al. 1995). Different types of plant preparations such as powders, solvent extracts, essential oils and whole plants are being investigated for their insecticidal activity including their action as fumigants, repellents, antifeedants, antiovipositions and insect growth regulators (Isman 2000; Negahban & Moharramipour 2007). Higher plants are a rich source of novel natural substances that can be used to develop environmental safe methods for insect control (Jbilou et al. 2006).

Modern-day crop protection is based on integrated pest management, which includes all the available techniques in a compatible manner along with judicious use of different agrochemicals. Therefore, for successful establishment of Toona sureni (Blume) Merr. (Meliaceae) and to reduce insecticidal load in IPM program, the role of this plant extract is very important. Keeping this view, the present study was conducted to evaluate repellency, mortality and production of progeny by F₁ adults of T. castaneum to T. sureni seed extracts on stored cracked wheat.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Study site. The experiment was conducted in the Key Laboratory of Natural Pesticide and Chemical Biology of the Ministry of Education, South China Agricultural University (SCAU), Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, PR China. It was carried out under laboratory conditions at 26 ± 2ºC, 70 ± 10% relative humidity (r.h.) in continuous dark room.

Insect. The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, was obtained from the Key Laboratory of Natural Pesticide and Chemical Biology of the Ministry of Education, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, PR China, where the insects were reared at 26 ± 2ºC and r.h. 65–70% in continuous dark condition. One hundred adults of both sexes were obtained from the stock culture and transferred to glass jars 500 g of wheat with standard food medium (wheat flour: dry yeast = 19:1). After five weeks of oviposition, the adults were removed by sieving the grains with a sieve of 2 mm mesh. The beetles (7-day-old) that subsequently emerged were used for the different bioassays.

Plant extract. The seeds of Indonesian mahogany, T. sureni, were obtained from the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia. The seeds were dried naturally on laboratory benches at room temperature (23 ± 2ºC) for 10 days and subsequently artificially dried an oven at 40ºC for six hours. The seeds were powdered using an electric grinder. One hundred grams of the seed powder was dissolved separately in 300 ml of methanol. The mixtures were mixed for 30 min and left to stand for 72 hrs and shacked several times at certain intervals. The extract of the seeds of Indonesian mahogany was concentrated using a rotary evaporator at maximum temperature of 45ºC and finally a hard brownish extract was obtained. The extract was stored in tightly corked bottles in a refrigerator before use. Portions of this dried extract were dissolved in acetone to prepare solutions of various concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 2.5 and 5.0%) for the bioassays.

Repellency Test. It was conducted according to the method of Talukder & Howes (1994). Filter papers (Whatman^®, Grade 40:8 µm) were cut in half, and 1 ml solution of each concentration was applied to each half uniformly with a pipette. The treated halves were air-dried and attached with the untreated half with a cello-tape at the middle in such a way that attachment did not interfere with the free movement of insect from one half to the other. Each filter paper was then placed in a Petri dish and 10 adult beetles (7-day-old) were released at the centre of each filter paper and covered with a lid. The Petri dishes were kept in an incubator (26 ± 2ºC, 70 ± 10% r.h. in continuous dark condition). There were six replicates for each treatment. The data were expressed as percentage of repulsion (R) that was calculated using the formula of McDonald et al. (1970): R = 2 × (C 50); where, C is the percentage of insects present in the control half. Positive values expressed repellency and negative values attractancy. The average values were then categorized according to McDonald et al., 1970 (Table I).

Mortality test. Ten adults (3–6 day old, not sexed) were released in a Petri dish with 20 g of half broken wheat. The insects were sprayed using hand sprayer with 2 ml solution of each concentration of T. sureni extract and the Petri dishes were covered with parafilm. The solvent (acetone) was used as control. The Petri dishes were kept in an incubator at 26 ± 2ºC and r.h. 65–70% in continuous dark condition. There were six replicates for each treatment. Adult mortality was recorded after 8 days spraying treatments were performed. The same procedure was used for larval (30-day-old) and pupal (5-day-old) instars. Insects are presumed dead if they did not move when touched with a pin.

Progeny production test. To determine the effect on F₁ progeny production, 20 g of half broken wheat were treated with each concentration of the extract. The treated wheat was air dried and kept in Petri dishes. Ten adults of T. castaneum of both sexes were confined in each Petri dish at 1, 3, 5 and 7 days after treatment; and the Petri dishes were covered with parafilm. The Petri dishes were incubated at 26 ± 2ºC and r.h. 65–70% in continuous dark condition for 7 days to evaluate mortality. The solvent was used as control. There were six replicates for each treatment. The numbers of adult's F1 progeny were counted from 25 days and it was continued up to 40 days of insect confinement.

Statistical analysis. The whole study was repeated three times with freshly prepared T. sureni suspension. Abbott's formula was used to correct the control mortality (Abbott 1925). Then the mortality data was submitted to analysis of variance (ANOVA). Data of repellency of T. castaneum were subjected to 2-way ANOVA between doses of T. sureni and exposure time (day). Data regarding F₁ adult's progeny of T. castaneum were also subjected to 2-way ANOVA between doses of T. sureni and exposure time (day). Data for percent mortality of T. castaneum was analyzed with one-way ANOVA. The statistical analyses were performed using the Proc GLM procedure of SAS (SAS Institute 2001). Means were separated using Least Significant Difference (LSD) test at 5% level of significance.

RESULTS

The repellency of T. castaneum was significantly different between concentrations of T. sureni and the control (F = 72.88, d.f. = 11, 71; P < 0.0001), as shown on Table II. The highest repellency (93.30%) presented by the insects occurred at 5.0% concentration of T. sureni after 1 day of exposure; while the lowest repellency (0.0%) occurred at 0.5% concentration after 3 days of exposure (Table II).

All stages of T. castaneum were significantly affected by T. sureni concentrations for all variables: mortality of adult (F = 51.56, d.f. = 4, 29; P < 0.0001); mortality of larva (F = 84.57, d.f. = 4, 29; P < 0.0001); and mortality of pupa (F = 61.53, d.f. = 4, 29; P < 0.0001) compared with their respective controls (Fig. 1). The results also demonstrated that the highest mortality of adult (86.7%), larva (88.3%) and pupa (85%) occurred at 5% concentration of T. sureni at 8 days post-application (Fig. 1).

The number of progeny produced by F₁ adults of T. castaneum was inversely affected by concentrations of T. sureni (Table III). The interaction of the factors viz. treatment and exposure time (day) was significantly different in the numbers of F₁ adult's progeny (F = 991.59, d.f. = 19, 119; P < 0.0001) of T. castaneum compared with their respective controls (Table III). There was a negative correlation between treatments and the numbers of progeny. The result demonstrated that the highest number of progeny (147) occurred for the control for 7 days of exposure of T. sureni; and the lowest number of progeny (43) occurred for 5.0% suspension for 1 day of exposure of T. sureni (Table III).

DISCUSSION

The toxicity of essential oils to stored-product insects is influenced by the chemical composition of the oil, which in turn depends on the source, season and ecological conditions, method of extraction, time of extraction and plant part used (Don-Pedro 1996; Lee et al. 2001). Essential oils and their components have been tested in small vials (5100 ml) or chambers (1003400 ml) or in Petri dishes of different sizes, so far against 20 coleopteran species, four lepidopterans and a liposcelid (Rajendran & Sriranjini 2008). The most common target insects were the adults of the rust-red flour beetle, T. castaneum, the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), the maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae). Bruchids such as the dried bean beetle, Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say), the cowpea beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) and adzuki bean weevil, Callosobruchus chinensis (L.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) have also been given considerable attention (Rajendran & Sriranjini 2008). Acanthoscelides obtectus was highly susceptible to the essential oils of L. hybrida, R. officinalis and Origanum majorana L. (Regnault-Roger 1997). It has also been reported that SEM76 and ZP51, essential oils from plants belonging to Lamiaceae, were relatively effective against several stored product insects (Shaaya et al. 1991, 1997).

Repellents, feeding deterrents, and insecticides of natural origin are rational alternatives to synthetic insecticides. These compounds are naturally produced in many plants and play a vital role as resistance factors in plant defense systems. Crude extracts of T. sureni seeds have been shown here to have strong repellency, moderate feeding deterrence, and direct contact toxicity to T. castaneum in all stage in its life cycle. Products from several plant parts have been demonstrated to act as repellents, toxicants and antifeedants against a number of coleopterans that attack stored products (Raja et al. 2001; Tapondjou et al. 2002; Saroukolai et al. 2010). The effectiveness of neem, Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Meliaceae) seed extracts on larvae and adults of different strains of T. castaneum was investigated by Khanom & Khalequzzaman (2000). The leaf extract of Polygonum hydropiper (Polygonaceae) and Annona squamosa (Annonaceae) was effective against the larvae of T. castaneum (Hussain et al. 1995); Artemmisia vulgaris against the larvae of T. castaneum and S. zeamais (Ferrolino & Padolino 1995); and Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall & Parker) against the larvae of T. castaneum (Talukder & Howse 1993, 1994).

The efficacy of T. sureni extract as grain protecting against the red flour beetle was demonstrated by the data of progeny. The lowest number of progeny has emerged when F₁ adults were exposed to 5% suspension of T. sureni extract and increased with the extract concentration. Ground leaves, bark and seeds of A. polystrachya provided protection for wheat flour by reducing F₁ progeny of T. castaneum (Talukder & Howse 1995). The present study is also supported by findings of Rahman et al. (2007) who investigated the insecticidal activity of ethanol extract of Macaranga postulate (Euphorbiaceae) against S. oryzae. Singh & Singh (1991) screened 31 essential oils from different botanical sources against the house fly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), and reported repellent and insecticidal activities against this species. The repellent, deterrent and biological effects of some plant materials against stored product insects have been studied by other researchers (Tripathi et al. 2002; Kim et al. 2003).

In conclusion, T. sureni seed extracts showed strong repellency against the red flour beetle, increasing proportionally with the increase of concentration of the extract. It is toxic to all stages of T. castaneum and reduces progeny production. Therefore, we conclude that seed extract of T. sureni is potentially useful to control T. castaneum; however, studies concerning the chemical analysis of the active compounds and the mechanisms involved in the action, besides the methods for large scale application should be accomplished.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This research was supported with special funds from the Scientific and Technological Plan of Guangdong Province (2009B050400004), the Joint Project of China-Indonesia Bilateral Governments (6-SVP02). Thanks are due to Prof. Aunu Rauf and Dr. Djoko Prijono of the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia, for providing us the test plant material. The first author is grateful to UNESCO as well as to China Scholarship Council (CSC) for providing fellowship. She is also grateful to Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) for accepting deputation during her study period in China.

Received 20/5/2011; accepted 29/5/2012

Editor: Sonia Maria Noemberg Lazzari

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Publication Dates

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  18 Sept 2012
• Date of issue
  Sept 2012

History

• Received
  20 May 2001
• Accepted
  29 May 2012