Caracterização química e efeito do óleo essencial de Lippia gracilis e seus constituintes majoritários sobre Aceria guerreronis (Acari: Eriophyidae)

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Mariana Santos
• Orientador(a): Blank, Arie Fitzgerald
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Agricultura e Biodiversidade
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Essencias e óleos essenciais; Pragas (controle biológico); Testes de toxicidade; Lippia (gênero); Timol; Carvacrol; Ácaros; Lippia gracilis; Óleo volátil; Atividade acaricida; Aceria guerreronis
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Volatile oil; Thymol; Acaricide activity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3033

Lippia gracilis Schauer is a plant that belongs to the Verbenaceae family, is known as “alecrim-da-chapada” or “alecrim-de-tabuleiro”, and occure in the caatinga biome. Because of its bioactive potential, the essential oil of L. gracilis is been tested for control of different agriculture and livestock pests and diseases. One of these pests is the coconut mite, Aceria guerreronis (Acari: Eriophyidae), an important pest of the coconut crop in Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the toxicity and repellency of the essential oil of two genotypes of L. gracilis and their major compounds thymol and carvacrol against the coconut mite (A. guerreronis). Adults of the coconut mite were subjected to increasing concentrations of the essential oils of the genotypes LGRA-106 and LGRA-109, of thymol and carvacrol, allowing the estimation of the lethal concentrations (LC). In addition to toxicity, the repellency of essential oils of L. gracilis, thymol and carvacrol was evaluated by releasing mites in the center of an arena with half area sprayed and the other half unsprayed. The analysis of the chemical composition of the essential oils of L. gracilis identified thymol (52.41%) and carvacrol (49.36%) as the major compounds for genotypes LGRA-106 and LGRA-109, respectively. The genotype LGRA-106 showed higher toxicity (LC50 = 4.73 μL/mL) to the coconut mite compared to the genotype LGRA-109 (LC50 = 30.99 μL/mL). The toxicity of LGRA-106 did not differ from its major compound thymol (LC50 = 5.34 μL/mL). The essential oil of LGRA-106 was 2.3 times more toxic than its major compound thymol at LC90. The LC50 and LC99 of genotypes LGRA-106 (4.73 and 13.18 μL/mL), LGRA-109 (30.99 and 54.33 μL/mL) and carvacrol (6.84 and 45.97 μL/mL) repelled the coconut mite after 24 h of exposure. The LC50 and LC99 of thymol (5.34 and 56.35 μL/mL) presented a neutral effect on the coconut mite after 24 h of exposure. We can conclude that the essential oil of genotype LGRA-106 has potential for development of a product to control the coconut mite.