Guo, Haoming Xiao, Nan Wang, Zhixuan Liang, Yabo Liu, Xueke Wang, Peng Liu, Donghui
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Indoxacarb, a type of chiral pesticide, is used to control Lepidoptera insects. Most studies had focused on the environmental behavior and selective toxicity of indoxacarb enantiomers, and the mechanism behind its selective biological activity against target organisms is not well understood. Spodoptera frugiperda was selected as the target insect. ...
Savi, Patrice Hall, Samantha Hernandez, Maria Mantri, Anil Kliebenstein, Daniel Nansen, Christian
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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are being used in controlled environments to enhance crop production and pest management with most studies focusing on continuous treatments (applied throughout the entire daytime or nighttime period). Here, we tested the hypothesis that providing tomato plants with timed LED regimes (daily 3-h doses of red, blue, or fa...
Wang, Pei Zhao, Yuchen Cheng, Yalan Tian, Siyu Bai, Yuxuan Zuo, Junfeng Palli, Subba Reddy Chen, Xien
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The function of some testis-specific genes (TSGs) in model insects have been studied, but their function in non-model insects remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we identified several TSGs in the fall armyworm (FAW), a significant agricultural pest, through comparative transcriptomic analysis. A testis-specific gene cluster (TSGC) com...
Mkomwa, Herieth Makundi, Rhodes Belmain, Steven Rija, Alfan A Massawe, Apia Ponchon, Aurore Selemani, Mwajabu Espinaze, Marcela P A Telfer, Sandra
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Understanding movement patterns of rodent pests is essential for planning management strategies. Currently, for many rural village contexts, there is limited information on how rodents move between domestic and peridomestic areas, and the surrounding habitats. We investigated movement of the multimammate rat, Mastomys natalensis and the black rat, ...
Jiang, Tingting Yang, Zhou Jiang, Yinlong Xie, Bowei Huang, Chaowei Yu, Jiaxiang Yuan, Haotian Duan, Jieli
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Pesticide spraying constitutes an essential component of the production and management regimen within banana orchards, extending throughout the entire growth cycle of the banana plants. Exploring the intricate interplay between surfactants, pesticide formulations, and the evolving surface properties of banana leaves throughout their growth stages i...
Chen, Miao-Miao Guo, Xin Li, Tai-Qing He, Xing-Xing Wen, De-Ya Hang, Xing-Chen Lu, Ai-Dang Zhou, Zheng-Hong Wang, Qing-Min Wang, Zi-Wen
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The invasion of viruses and fungi can cause pathological changes in the normal growth of plants and is an important factor in causing plant infectious diseases. These pathogenic microorganisms can also secrete toxic metabolites, affecting crop quality and posing a threat to human health. In this work, we selected the natural product rutaecarpine as...
Shi, Yu Su, Ting Yu, Zhifeng Mei, Wenjuan Wu, Yidong Yang, Yihua
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The F116V mutation in the substrate recognition site 1 (SRS1) of Spodoptera exigua CYP9A186 has been demonstrated to confer ~200-fold resistance to emamectin benzoate (EB). In this study, a novel mutation (F116I) in CYP9A25, orthologous to CYP9A186, was detected in a field population of Spodoptera litura (YJ22) collected from Yuanjiang, Yunnan prov...
Drobnjaković, Tanja Prijović, Mirjana Dervišević, Marina Brkić, Dragica Ricupero, Michele Marčić, Dejan
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Insecticide risk assessment for biological control agents is essential for implementing integrated pest management (IPM) programs. Spinetoram is a naturally derived insecticide used to control a variety of agricultural sap-sucking insect pests, and Encarsia formosa Gahan (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) plays a key role in the biocontrol of greenhouse wh...
Hong, Geng Yang, Man Wang, Shanjun Xia, Yuxian Peng, Guoxiong
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The entomopathogenic fungus (EPF) Metarhizium acridum, a typical filamentous fungus, has been utilized for the biological control of migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria manilensis). Fungal-specific transcription factors (TFs) play a crucial role in governing various cellular processes in fungi, although TFs with only the Fungal_trans domain remai...
Huo, Fan Liu, Huixia Guo, Weiqi Kang, Hanye Zhang, Huihui Jashenko, Roman Ji, Rong Hu, Hongxia
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Paranosema locustae are specialized parasites of Orthoptera that have been applied widely in the control of grasshoppers in many parts of the world. However, it is slow to kill insects, and how it works in the host is unclear. This work aimed to examine the proliferation of P. locustae within locust tissues and characterize the histological alterat...