Potent attachment-inhibiting and -promoting substances for the blue mussel, mytilus edulis galloprovincialis, from two species of eucalyptus

Abstract

A highly potent repellent, sideroxylonal A, was isolated from the benzene extract of the leaves of Eucalyptus grandis. An attaching attractant identified as 16, 18-tritriacontandione was isolated from the leaf wax of E. globulus. Grandinol and 16, 18-tritriacontandione analogues were tested for attaching repellent and attractant activity in order to establish structure activity relationships. © 1996, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.