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Common resistance mechanisms are deployed by plants against sap-feeding herbivorous insects: insights from a meta-analysis and systematic review

Scientific Reports, 2022
Despite their abundance and economic importance, the mechanism of plant resistance to sap-feeding insects remains poorly understood. Here we deploy meta-analysis and data synthesis methods to evaluate the results from electrophysiological studies ...
D. J. Leybourne, G. I. Aradottir
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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
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Molecular Mechanisms of Insect Resistance in Rice and Their Application in Sustainable Pest Management

Insects
Rice is a key food crop worldwide, but its yield and quality are severely constrained by insect pests. As environmental and regulatory restrictions on chemical pesticides grow, developing insect-resistant rice varieties has become a sustainable way to ...
Dilawar Abbas, Kamran Haider, Farman Ullah, Umer Liaqat, Naveed Akhtar, Yubin Li, Maolin Hou   +6 more
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Weather Variables Affecting the Behaviour of Insect Flower Visitors and Main Pollinators of Erythroxylum myrsinites Martius (Erythroxylaceae)

Sociobiology, 2021
Basic research assessing environmental effects on entire pollinator communities are still uncommon, particularly for rare and commercially unattractive plant-pollinator partners. We investigated the community of flower visitors of Erythroxylum myrsinites
Rafael Barbizan Sühs, Alexandre Somavilla, Eduardo Luís Hettwer Giehl   +2 more
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Novel genes for insect resistance in transgenic plants [PDF]

, 1995
From a cDNA library of potato tuber, cDNAs for the potato carboxypeptidase inhibitors were isolated and characterised by DNA sequencing. One full length clone of each type was used to make plant expression constructs, and these constructs used to ...
Gatehouse, Laurence Neil
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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New records, host, and plant symptoms description of the recently reported Delia sanctijacobi (Bigot) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in Brazil

EntomoBrasilis, 2023
Delia Robineau-Desvoidy, composed of flies popularly known as root maggot flies, is a diverse genus with unclear delimitation. It comprises polyphagous species and some important agricultural pests. Delia sanctijacobi (Bigot) is native to South America,
Lucas Roberto Pereira Gomes, Leandro Delalibera Geremias, Maria Aparecida Cassilha Zawadneak, Juracy Caldeira Lins-Junior, Paulo Antônio de Souza Gonçalves, Claudio José Barros de Carvalho   +5 more
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Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology [PDF]

, 2009
An important mechanism for insect pest control should be the use of fungal entomopathogens. Even though these organisms have been studied for more than 100 y, their effective use in the field remains elusive.
Vega, F. E., Maniania, N. K., Goettel, Mark S., Roy, H. E., Goettel, M. S., Monzón, Arnulfo, Keller, S., Rangel, D. E. N., Chandler, Dave, Jackson, Mark A., Rangel, Drauzio E.N., Keller, Siegfried, Roy, Helen, Koike, M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Monzon, A., Chandler, David, Chandler, D., Keller, Siegrried, Blackwell, Meredith, Maniania, Nguya K., Pell, Judith K., Pell, J. K., Vega, Fernando E., Jackson, M. A., Ownley, Bonnie H., Koike, Masanori, Roy, Helen E., Ownley, B. H.   +28 more
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Hyperactive ice‐binding proteins stabilize cell membranes and improve resistance to dehydration stress in Caenorhabditis elegans

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
TisIBP8, a fungal‐derived hyperactive ice‐binding protein, helps Caenorhabditis elegans survive dehydration. It localizes near cell membranes, reduces cell damage, and helps maintain membrane structure during drying. These results suggest that ice‐binding proteins can protect cells from dehydration stress as well as freezing stress.
Daiki Shimose, Kotaro Ozaki, Ryohei Kuriyama, Yuka Ikemoto, Kazuhiro Mio, Yuji C. Sasaki, Tatsuya Arai, Sakae Tsuda, Yoichi Shinkai, Masahiro Kuramochi   +9 more
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Seduced by the dark side: integrating molecular and ecological perspectives on the influence of light on plant defence against pests and pathogens. [PDF]

, 2006
Plants frequently suffer attack from herbivores and microbial pathogens, and have evolved a complex array of defence mechanisms to resist defoliation and disease.
Paul, Nigel D, Roberts, Michael R
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