Yang, Zezhong Gong, Cheng Hu, Yuan Zhong, Jie Xia, Jixing Xie, Wen Yang, Xin Guo, Zhaojiang Wang, Shaoli Wu, Qingjun
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Frontiers in Physiology
Deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP) is essential for DNA synthesis and cellular growth in all organisms. Here, genetic capacity analysis of the pyrimidine pathway in insects and their symbionts revealed that dTTP is a kind of metabolic input in several host insect/obligate symbiont symbiosis systems, including Bemisia tabaci MED/ Candidatus Portiera...
Yan, Shuo Ren, Bin-Yuan Shen, Jie
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Insect science
RNA interference (RNAi) targeting lethal genes in insects has great potential for sustainable crop protection. Compared with traditional double-stranded (ds)RNA delivery systems, nanoparticles such as chitosan, liposomes, and cationic dendrimers offer advantages in delivering dsRNA/small interfering (si)RNA to improve RNAi efficiency, thus promotin...
Martínez, Luis Carlos Plata-Rueda, Angelica Serrão, José Eduardo
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Insects
Simple Summary Pestalotiopsis fungal complex is a disease that causes damages in oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ), and the lace bug, Leptopharsa gibbicarina is the main insect pest that spread this disease. Application of neurotoxic insecticides has been a common method used to control L. gibbicarina for decades in Colombia and Venezuela. The effects...
Swevers, Luc Denecke, Shane Vogelsang, Kathrin Geibel, Sven Vontas, John
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Pest management science
Mammalian intestinal organoids are multicellular structures that closely resemble the structure of the intestinal epithelium and can be generated in vitro from intestinal stem cells under appropriate culture conditions. This technology has transformed pharmaceutical research and drug development in human medicine. For the insect gut, no biotechnolo...
Vera-Aviles, Daniel Suárez-Capello, Carmita Llugany, Merce Poschenrieder, Charlotte De Santis, Paola Cabezas-Guerrero, Milton
Banana and plantain (Musa spp.) are very important crops in Ecuador. Agricultural production systems based on a single cultivar and high use of external inputs to increase yields may cause changes in the landscape structure and a loss in biodiversity. This loss may be responsible for a decrease in the complexity of arthropod food webs and, at the s...
Qin, Xu Zhao, Xin Huang, Shuaishuai Deng, Juan Li, Xuebing Luo, Zhibing Zhang, Yongjun
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Pest management science
It has been suggested that entomopathogenic fungi can be introduced into plants as endophytes potentially leading to insect control. Here, we sought to identify specific strains of the insect pathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana that would form endophytic associations with tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) benefitting host plant growth and/or resist...
Jarzębowska, Gabriela
This article analyzes the discursive practices that shape rat exterminators’ professional identity. Interviews with pest control professionals (PCPs) reveal the rhetorics of hard work on their identity. My main thesis is that the shaping of this identity is performed on two levels. The first one (social) is about identity shaped in opposition to th...
Liere, Heidi Egerer, Monika Sanchez, Carly Bichier, Peter Philpott, Stacy M.
Community gardens are important urban green spaces with a variety of social and ecological benefits, one of which is access to healthy food. Similar to rural agriculture, the quantity and quality of the food produced can be compromised by pest damage. In fact, many urban gardeners report crop damages caused by vertebrate and invertebrate pests. Yet...
Gonella, Elena Orrù, Bianca Marasco, Ramona Daffonchio, Daniele Alma, Alberto
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Frontiers in Microbiology
The family Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) includes several invasive stink bug species capable to attack a large number of wild and cultivated plants, causing several damages to different crops. Pentatomids rely on obligate symbiotic associations with bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae , mainly of the genus Pantoea . A distinctive trai...
Lin, Sukun Qin, Deqiang Zhang, Yue Zheng, Qun Yang, Liupeng Cheng, Dongmei Huang, Suqing Chen, Jianjun Zhang, Zhixiang
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Toxins
Autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale L.) is a medicinal plant as it contains high concentrations of colchicine. In this study, we reported that the ground powder of autumn crocus bulb is highly toxic to invasive Solenopsis invicta Buren, commonly referred to as red imported fire ants (RIFAs). Ants fed with sugar water containing 5000 mg/L of bulb po...
