The olfactometers generally used for behavioral bioassays are to test attraction. What is the best way to test the repellency of a plant or an extract to an insect?
The attraction is a complex system and in different species of plants the strategy is not the some !!!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9152869
DR Roberts - 1997 - Cité 83 fois
- A new test system that includes an excito-repellency test box, test procedures, and statistical treatment of data is described. The method consists of ...