Bemisia tabaci (whitefly) infestations and the subsequent transfer of viruses are the cause of severe losses in crop production and horticultural practice. To improve biological control of B. tabaci, we investigated repellent properties of plant-produced semiochemicals. The mix of headspace volatiles, collected from naturally repellent wild tomato accessions, influenced B. tabaci initial choice...

The toxic inert ingredients in pesticide formulations are strictly regulated in many countries. In this paper, a simple and efficient headspace-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HSGC-MS) method using fluorobenzene as an internal standard (IS) for rapid simultaneous determination of benzene and toluene in pesticide emulsifiable concentrate (EC) was established. The headspace and GC-MS condit...

SIFT-MS is used for the first time in profiling the volatile organic profile in faecal headspace in two groups of horses admitted to an equine hospital, one group with acute intestinal disease (colic) affecting the large colon, plus a control group of similarly managed horses admitted for non-gastrointestinal/metabolic reasons (e.g. acute orthopaedic injury). Compounds in faecal headspace which...

Reliable measurements of air quality and emissions at large livestock buildings with inherently large spatial and temporal variations of pollutant concentrations are relatively difficult and expensive. Appropriate methodologies for such measurements are not readily apparent and techniques and strategies vary widely. Several important technical issues need to be addressed by an air pollutant emi...

Evaluation of dry-cured Iberian ham quality is carried out by means the sense smell experts and a percentage these hams are discarded due to odour defects. However, in cellars cannot be altered sampling because they would devaluated, which makes instrumental analysis difficult. Thus, aim this work assess potential headspace gas chromatography coupled ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) or mas...

the seasonal variation of volatile oil compositions (vocs) from fresh flowers of persian musk rose was investigated by combi pal headspace techniques. in this study, a total number of 21 vocs were detected by headspace on the combi pal system and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (hs-gc/ms) from rosa moschata herrm. at different seasons which was representing 92.53-99.37% of total vocs. the ...

A novel dynamic headspace extraction device, the capillary microextraction of volatiles (CMV) was coupled to a person-portable GC–MS for analysis ignitable liquid residues (ILR) sampled from simulated fire debris. benchtop used as benchmark performance portable GC–MS. The use paper cup in conjunction with CMV in-field sampling VOCs associated ILRs is presented first time. five-minute sampling/e...

the volatile components of citrus aurantium l. flowers were characterized by gc-ms with two different extraction techniques, hydrodistillation (hd) and ultrasonic-assisted headspace solid phase microextraction (ua-hs-spme). in the spme method, the volatile components of the samples, irradiated by ultrasonic radiation, were collected on a polydimethyl siloxane (pdms) commercial fiber as well as ...

Previous studies have indicated that volatile compounds specific to bladder cancer may exist in urine headspace, raising the possibility that headspace analysis could be used for diagnosis of this particular cancer. In this paper, we evaluate the use of a commercially available gas sensor array coupled with a specifically designed pattern recognition algorithm for this purpose. The best diagnos...

The ability of foods and beverages to reduce allyl methyl disulfide, diallyl disulfide, allyl mercaptan, and allyl methyl sulfide on human breath after consumption of raw garlic was examined. The treatments were consumed immediately following raw garlic consumption for breath measurements, or were blended with garlic prior to headspace measurements. Measurements were done using a selected ion f...