Hu, Chen Xi Zeng, Jie Hao, Hui Nan Xu, Yang Xiu Yue Liu, Fang Liu, Ruo Dan Long, Shao Rong Wang, Zhong Quan Cui, Jing
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Veterinary Research
Inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) participates in energy cycle and plays a vital role in hydrolysis of inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) into inorganic phosphate (Pi). The aim of this study was to investigate the biological properties of a Trichinella spiralis PPase (TsPPase) and its role in larval molting and developmental process. The predicted TsPPa...
Yilmazer, Ramiz Birant, Derya
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Providing high on-shelf availability (OSA) is a key factor to increase profits in grocery stores. Recently, there has been growing interest in computer vision approaches to monitor OSA. However, the largest and well-known computer vision datasets do not provide annotation for store products, and therefore, a huge effort is needed to manually label ...
Zhou, Lifeng Ma, Xinxin Zhu, Najie Zou, Qingchi Guo, Kai Bai, Liqun Yu, Hongshi Hu, Jiafu
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Pest management science
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is one of the most destructive invasive species, causing extensive economic losses worldwide. The sex ratio of female to male of B. xylophilus plays an important role in the nematode infestation. However, little is known about the processes of its sex determination. The double sex/mab-3-related family of transcription fac...
Mohanpuria, Prashant Govindaswamy, Mohan Sidhu, Gurupkar Singh Singh, Sandeep Kaur, Simranpreet Chhuneja, Parveen
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
BackgroundThe oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), is the world’s most damaging (30–100%) pest infesting important fruits and vegetables. Its control is highly challenging due to its polyphagous, multivoltine nature, and unexposed developmental stages. No known fruit fly-resistant guava germplasm is reported so far worldwide. RNAi appr...
Shen, Yan Chen, Yuan-Zhi Zhang, Chuan-Xi
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Pest management science
The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, is the most destructive rice insect pest. To exploit potential target genes for applications in transgenic rice to control this sap-sucking insect pest, three ferritin genes were functionally characterized in this study. In this study, three ferritin genes, that is, ferritin 1 Heavy Chain (NlFer1), f...
Berkhout, Ben Herrera-Carrillo, Elena
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Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Since the first application of RNA interference (RNAi) in mammalian cells, the expression of short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules for targeted gene silencing has become a benchmark technology. Plasmid and viral vector systems can be used to express shRNA precursor transcripts that are processed by the cellular RNAi pathway to trigger sequence-specif...
Meng, Xiangkun Wu, Zhaolu Yang, Xuemei Qian, Kun Zhang, Nan Jiang, Heng Yin, Xingcan Guan, Daojie Zheng, Yang Wang, Jianjun
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Pest management science
The selective insecticide flonicamid shows highly insecticidal activities against piercing-sucking insects and has been widely used for the control of Hemipteran insect pests, whereas its effects on Lepidopteran insect pests remain largely unknown. Recently, inward rectifier potassium (Kir) channel has been verified to be a target of flonicamid, ho...
ZAFAR, Muhammad Mubashar RAZZAQ, Abdul FAROOQ, Muhammad Awais REHMAN, Abdul FIRDOUS, Hina SHAKEEL, Amir MO, Huijuan REN, Maozhi
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Journal of Cotton Research
The introduction of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton has reduced the burden of pests without harming the environment and human health. However, the efficacy of Bt cotton has decreased due to field-evolved resistance in insect pests over time. In this review, we have discussed various factors that facilitate the evolution of resistance in cotton p...
Tsoumani, Konstantina T. Belavilas-Trovas, Alexandros Gregoriou, Maria-Eleni Mathiopoulos, Kostas D.
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundThe olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) is the most destructive pest of the olive cultivation worldwide causing significant production losses and olive fruit impoverishment, as its larvae feed exclusively on the olive fruit. Reproductive and sexual behavior, as well as host-plant recognition of the fly, are highly dependent on its chemosen...
Bollu, Amarnath Hassan, Md Khurshidul Dixit, Manjusha Sharma, Nagendra K
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Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) exhibits gene-specific RNAi activity by the formation of RISC complex with mRNA of gene. The structural modification of siRNA at appropriate positions affects the structure of RISC complex and then RNAi activity. The modified siRNA are mostly prepared from the incorporation of sugar ring modified, and nucleobase modifi...
