Abietane and Pimarane Diterpene Acid Evolution in Scots Pine Pinus
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Abietane and pimarane diterpene acid evolution in Scots pine Pinus sylvestris needles in relation to feeding of the pine sawfly, Diprion pini L L Buratti, Jp Allais, C Geri, M Barbier To cite this version: L Buratti, Jp Allais, C Geri, M Barbier. Abietane and pimarane diterpene acid evolution in Scots pine Pinus sylvestris needles in relation to feeding of the pine sawfly, Diprion pini L. Annales des sciences forestières, INRA/EDP Sciences, 1990, 47 (2), pp.161-171. hal-00882698 HAL Id: hal-00882698 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00882698 Submitted on 1 Jan 1990 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Original article Abietane and pimarane diterpene acid evolution in Scots pine Pinus sylvestris needles in relation to feeding of the pine sawfly, Diprion pini L. L Buratti JP Allais C Geri M Barbier 1 Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles - CNRS 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex ; 2 Station de Zoologie Forestière - INRA Ardon 45160 Olivet, France (Received 16 February 1989; accepted 30 June 1989) Summary - Abietane and pimarane resin acids extracted from the needles of Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, were analysed by reverse phase HPLC followed by GC of their methyl esters, in relation to the seasons, or the age of the trees. P sylvestris is the habitual host plant of the sawfly Diprion pini (Hymenoptera, Diprionidae) and results of the analyses were correlated with the feeding pattern of this insect in nature. An increase in resin acid concentration was observed during the growing season, but no direct relationship could be established with the feeding preferences of these insects. Young pines contained lower levels of abietane and pimarane diterpene acids than 10 or 30 year-old pines. Previous defoliation induced an increase in the neutral fraction and, although less so, in the diterpene acids in the needles formed the following year. The observed results are discussed in relation to the development of Diprion pini larvae and to previous hypotheses from other authors concerning the antifee- dant properties of the resin acids. It is concluded that, if the abietane and pimarane diterpene acids interfere with the biology of Diprion pini, they cannot, however, be considered as the most important factors in the natural equilibria of this species. Pinus sylvestris / Diprion pini / Diprionidae / sawfly / abietane and pimarane diter- pene acids / pine foliage / seasonal average variation / antifeedant property Résumé - Évolution des acides diterpéniques de types abiétique et pimarique dans le feuillage du pin sylvestre pinus sylvestris L ; impact de l’âge des aiguilles et des arbres, influence des défoliations passées. Conséquences pour le lophyre du pin Diprion pini L. Les acides résiniques de types abiétique et pimarique extraits des aiguilles du pin sylvestre, Pinus sylvestris, ont été analysés par HPLC sur phase inverse et CPG de leurs esters mé- thyliques, en fonction des saisons et de l’âge des arbres. P sylvestris est la plante hôte habituelle de Diprion pini (Hyménoptères, Diprionidés) et les résultats des analyses ont été corrélés à l’aptitude de cet insecte à se nourrir sur le feuillage de cet arbre. On note une augmentation du taux des acides résiniques à la belle saison, durant la phase de croissance des aiguilles, mais aucune relation directe n’a pu être observée pour expliquer les préférences alimentaires de cet insecte. Les jeunes pins contiennent un taux plus faible d’acides résini- ques de types abiétique et pimarique que les arbres âgés de 10 ou 20 ans. La défoliation Correspondence and reprints de l’arbre induit dans les aiguilles formées l’année suivante une augmentation du taux des- lipides neutres et, à moindre titre, des acides résiniques (plus particulièrement de l’acide abiétique). Les résultats obtenus sont discutés en fonction du choix alimentaire des larves de D pini et des hypothèses émises par d’autres auteurs concernant l’action anti-appétante des acides résiniques. En conclusion, l’aptitude de D pini à consommer le feuillage du pin sylvestre, Pinus sylvestris, ne paraît pas être directement liée aux variations de sa teneur en acides résiniques de types pimarique et abiétique. Toutefois ceci n’exclut pas toute action des ces composés dans la relation D pini - Pinus sylvestris comme le suggèrent certains résultats: taux particulièrement élevé de l’acide abiétique dans le feuillage des pins un an après une défoliation et dans les aiguilles des essences non attaquées tel Pinus pinaster. Seule une étude exhaustive des composés de la fraction acide, et de leur variations nous permettra d’apprécier le rôle effectif des acides résiniques dans les interactions Diprions-Pins sylvestres. Pinus sylvestris / Pinacée / Diprion pini / Diprionidé / Tenthrède / acide pimarique / acide abiétique / aiguille de pin / feuillage / variation saisonnière / propriété anti- appétante INTRODUCTION prion or Diprion species living on the Jack pine, Pinus banksiana, Lambert Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris L, is an (Schuh and Benjamin, 1984a, b); they economically important European pulp- were also tested on Pristiphora erich- wood and lumber conifer. Diprion pini sonii, Hartig larvae living on Larix lari- L (Hymenoptera, Diprionidae), a wide- cinia, Du Roi (K Koch) (Wagner et al, spread pine sawfly living in European 1983). All these authors concluded that coniferous forests, is able to cause resin acids could be the compounds af- serious damage to Scots pines during fecting sawfly larval development. its outbreaks. Thus, thousands of hec- If abietane and pimarane diterpere tares can be defoliated in less than acids interfere with larval mortality and 2 years (Dusaussoy and Geri, 1966; feeding behaviour in D pini, the quali- Eichhorn, 1982; Geri et al, 1982; Geri tative and quantitative evolutions of and Goussard, 1984; Geri, 1988). these compounds in the foliage should D pini does not feed on young, but be correlated to the habitual feeding on mature, foliage, as is the case for pattern of this insect. many Diprionidae and even other Previous analyses of Pinus sylvestris sawfly species (All and Benjamin, needle resin acids reported the pre- 1975a, b; All et al, 1975; Ikeda et al, sence of labdane diterpene acids such 1977a, b. Wagner et al, 1979; Niemela as manoyl oxid acid (Bardyshev et al, et al, 1982). As previously shown, 1981), pinificolic acid (Enzell and young foliage has a deterrent effect on Theander, 1962), dehydropinifolic acid sawflies and affects larval survival of D (Norin et al, 1971, 1980), 4-epi-imbri- pini (Geri et al, 1985, 1988). cataloic acid (Tobolski and Zinkel, Previous results suggested that resin 1982), and of classical pimarane and acids could be involved in the de- abietane diterpene acids such as pi- terrence of young foliage. Thus, maric, isopimaric, sandaracopimaric, abietane and pimarane diterpene acids abietic, palustric, levopimaric, dehy- were tested for antifeedant activity droabietic and neoabietic acids (Norin, against the larvae of various Neodi- 1972; Tobolski and Zinkel, 1982). This paper attempts to correlate the (Geri et al, 1985, 1987). Systematic temporal distribution of abietane and analyses were caried out on selected pimarane diterpene acids in extracts Scots pine foliage during a period from Scots pine needles with the ability ranging from June to September. of D pini to feed on the pine foliage. D pini lives preferably on old trees, Abietane and pimarane diterpene acids the young pines being attacked only were selected because they were usu- during outbreaks (Geri and Goussard, ally tested in sawfly feeding bioassays 1984; Geri, 1988). The same phenom- (Wagner et al, 1983; Schuh and Ben- enon was observed in Sweden on jamin, 1984a, b). Scots pine defoliated by Neodiprion sertifer, Geoff. (Larsson and Tenow, As a of these SOME BIOLOGICAL DATA 1984). consequence pre- vious observations, analyses were also carried out on the of trees of In France, attacks foliage Diprion pini chiefly different Pinus sylvestris but Pinus nigra Arnold ages. Furthermore, resistance ssp. laricio is also weakly damaged at long lasting the end of such outbreaks. P pinaster induced by defoliation (Haukioja and could Aiton is almost never attacked. Exotic Hakala, 1975; Haukioja, 1980) a crucial role in the of species such as P contorta Dougl and play collapse leaf feeder For P radiata D Don show some damage populations. example, (Geri, 1988). Diterpene acid analysis needle quality of Larix decidua re- mained low for defoliators 4 after was carried out on the mature foliage years a decrease in the of these species to find out if the dam- defoliation, inducing success of the insect dini- age could be correlated to pimarane Zeiraphera and abietane resin acid rates. ana Guenée (Benz, 1974; Baltensweiler et Fischlin and Baltensweiler, pini is usually bivoltine in the al, 1977; Diprion Quantitative resin acid Paris Basin. The first generation 1979). changes were shown to occur after wounds in develops from April to July. Eggs are Pinus sylvestris bark (Gref and Erics- laid as as mid-April and hatch be- early We found that the tween late May and early June. The son, 1984). develop- ment of D pini larvae feeding on new larvae feed on the foliage of the pre- of pines defoliated the previous vious years and their growth generally foliage was altered. We observed in ends at the beginning of July. At this year par- ticular a decrease in female time the larvae disperse and transform significant fecondity (Geri et al, 1988). Newly to which spin cocoons on eonymphs, formed Scots needles from trees or in the duff, and then pine vegetation defoliated either in the change successively into pronymphs, artificially pre- vious or by Diprion pini in the pupae, and adults.