Current Collaborators

Anna-Carin Bäckman

Position	Researcher
Safecrop project acronym
current site of work	Istituto agrario di S. Michele all'Adige IASMA
street, number	via Mach, 1
city	S. Michele all'Adige TN
postal code	38010
country	Italy
e-mail	Anna-Carin.Backman@vv.slu.se
phone	+46 40 415305
mobile phone	+46 40 461991
degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis	PhD, 2000, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Plant protection, Olfactory communication in the codling moth, Cydia pomonella L.
expertise	Chemical Ecology
professional societies
research experience, training, professional stages	Olfactory communication in insects. Plant protection with semiochemicals.
languages (level: mother tongue, fluent, basic)	Swedish (Mother tounge), English (fluent), German (basic)
current research area	Plant semiochemicals for control of the grapevine moth, Lobesia botrana

Publication List:

Witzgall P., Bengtsson M., Karg. G., Bäckman A.-C., Streinz L., Kirsch P.A., Blum Z. and Löfqvist J. 1996. Behavioral observations and measurements of aerial pheromone in a mating disruption trial against pea moth Cydia nigricana F. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). J. Chem. Ecol. 22:191-206.

Witzgall P., Bäckman A.-C., Svensson M., Bengtsson M., Unelius C.R., Vrkoc J., Kirsch P.A., Ioratti C. and Löfqvist J. 1996. Potential of a blend of E8,E10-12OH and E8,E10-12Ac for mating disruption of codling moth, Cydia pomonella L. (Lep., Tortricidae). J. Appl. Entomol. 120:611-614.

Bäckman A.-C. 1997. Pheromone release by codling moth females and mating disruption dispensers. In Witzgall P. and Arn. H. (eds.). Technology transfer in mating disruption. Bulletin IOBC wprs. 20(1):175-180.

Bäckman A.-C., Bengtsson M. and Witzgall P. 1997. Pheromone release in individual females of codling moth, Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). J. Chem. Ecol. 23:807-815.

Witzgall P., Bäckman A.-C., Svensson M., Koch U.T., Rama F., El-Sayed A., Strandh M., Brauchli J., Arn H., Bengtsson M. and Löfqvist J. 1999. Behavioral observations of codling moth, Cydia pomonella, in orchards permeated with synthetic pheromone. BioControl, 44:211-237.

Witzgall P., Bengtsson M., El-Sayed A., Bäckman A.-C., Rauscher S., Borg-Karlson A.-K., Unelius C.R. and Löfqvist J. 1999. Chemical communication in codling moth: towards environmentally safe control methods. In Witzgall P. and El-Sayed A. (eds.). Scents in orchards - plant and insect semiochemicals from orchard environments. Bulletin IOBC wprs. 22(9):57-65.

Bäckman A.-C., Anderson P., Bengtsson M., Löfqvist J., Unelius, C.R. and Witzgall P. 2000. Antennal responses of male codling moth males, Cydia pomonella, (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) to the geometric isomers of codlemone and codlemone acetate. J. Comp. Physiol. A 186, 6:513-519.

Bengtsson M., Bäckman A.-C., Liblikas I., Borg-Karlsson A.-K., Anderson P., Löfqvist J. and Witzgall P. 2001. Antennal responses of codling moth females to apple volatiles. J. Agric. Food Chem. 49:3736-3741.

Witzgall P., Bengtsson M., Raucher S., Liblikas I., Bäckman A.-C., Coracini M., Anderson P and Löfqvist J. 2001. Identification of further sex pheromone synergists in the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). Ent. Exp. appl. 101: 131-141.

Bäckman A.-C., Bengtsson M., Borg-Karlsson A.-K. and Witzgall P. 2001. Volatiles from apple (Malus domesticus), eliciting antennal responses in female codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): effect of plant injury and sampling technique. Z. Naturforsch. 56c:262-268.

Anfora G., Tasin M., Bäckman A.-C., De Cristofaro A., Witzgall P. and Ioratti C. 2005. Attractiveness of year-old polyethylene Isonet sex pheromone dispensers for Lobesia botrana. Ent. Exp. Appl.117:201-207.

Witzgall P., Tasin M., Buser H.C., Wegner-Kiss G., Marco Mancebón V.S., Ioratti C., Bäckman A.-C., Bengtsson M., Lehman L. and Francke W. 2005. New pheromone components of the grapevine moth Lobesia botrana. J. Chem. Ecol. 31:2923-2932.

Bengtsson M., Jaastad G., Knudsen G., Kobro S., Bäckman A.-C., Pettersson E. and Witzgall P. 2006. Plant volatiles mediate attraction to host and non-host plant in apple fruit moth, Argyresthia conjugella. Ent. Exp. Appl. 118:77-85.

Tasin M., Bäckman A.-C., Anfora G., Ioriatti C., Carlin S., De Cristofaro A., Schmidt S., Bengtsson M., Versini G., Witzgall P. 2005. Antennal and behavioral responses of grapevine moth Lobesia botrana females to volatiles from grapevine. Naturwiss. In press.