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Samples of dried frass obtained from caterpillars fed these leaves yielded 2868\u00b1552 p.p.m. cyanide. Frass extracted directly in NaOH yielded approximately five percent of the cyanide obtained from frass ground in buffer and distilled in Warburg flasks,indicating that cyanogenesis is largely inhibited as the bolus traverses the gut. This inhibition is attributable to the ability of the caterpillar to maintain a foregut environment in the presence of the bolus that is sufficiently alkaline to suppress the conversion of the plant cyanogen to cyanide. Although a number of caterpillars feed without harm on cyanogenic plants, this it the first shown to inhibit cyanogenesis in this manner.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/jeb.013664","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,2,15]],"date-time":"2008-02-15T09:23:45Z","timestamp":1203067425000},"page":"671-677","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Larvae of the fall webworm, <i>Hyphantria cunea<\/i>, inhibit cyanogenesis in <i>Prunus serotina<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"211","author":[{"given":"T. D.","family":"Fitzgerald","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"237","reference":[{"key":"2021042511474809700_REF1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alonso-Amelot, M. E., A\u0301vila-Nu\u0301n\u0303ez, L. J.,Duarte, L. and Oliveros-Bastidas, A. (2006). 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