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. 2015 Feb 11;41(2):159–167. doi: 10.1007/s10886-015-0551-4

Table 4.

Summary of Pearson correlations between pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) concentrations and the proxies of herbivore feedinga in the five bioassays conducted with Jacobaea F2 hybrids from a cross between Jacobaea vulgaris and Jacobaea aquatica

PA Specialist herbivores Generalist herbivores
Flea beetle (N = 87) Cinnabar moth (N = 35) Slug (N = 84) Thrips (N = 94) Leafminer (N = 90)
Total tertiary amines 0.079 0.391* −0.206 −0.266** −0.235*
Total N-oxide 0.042 0.043 −0.283** −0.282** −0.060
Senecionine-like PAs 0.030 −0.042 −0.259* −0.204* −0.091
Jacobine-like PAs 0.017 0.350* −0.167 −0.297* −0.188
Erucifoline-like PAs −0.004 −0.078 −0.115 −0.159 0.226*
Otosenine-like PAs 0.088 0.303 0.173 0.030 −0.267*

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01

aThe feeding damage data used is the same as that in Table 3