Jonas Bengtsson Postdoctoral Fellow   040-41 53 79 0768-06 74 07 jonas.bengtsson@slu.se

 

Education

MSc in Biology, 2003, Lund University

PhD 2010, SLU "Odor perception in three Coleoptera: molecule, receptor & neuron" 

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Research

Mass trapping for control of Sorghum chafer, Pachnoda interrupta, in Ethiopia (funded by SIDA/Sarec)

 

My PhD project concerns olfaction in the sorghum chafer, Pachnoda interrupta, which is a pest on Sorghum bicolor in Ethiopia. The beetle aggregates when feeding and mating, and I am studying the kairomones and pheromones involved in this behavior, both behaviorally in the field, and at the peripheral level of olfaction, with single sensillum recordings.

 

Publication

Bengtsson JM, Wolde-Hawariat Y, Khbaish H, Negash M, Jembere B, Seyoum E, Hansson BS, Larsson MC, Hillbur Y. 2009. Field attractants for Pachnoda interrupta selected by means of GC-EAD and single sensillum screening. Journal of chemical Ecology 35:1063-1076