The Rice leaf folder,(RLF) Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenee) is widely distributed in rice
growing areas in all over the world. The leaf folder has been considered a miner pest of rice …

Rice production faces a significant threat from the rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis.
To address this challenge, growing resistant varieties stands out as a sustainable and eco …

Hexokinase (HK) is a key enzyme in chitin biosynthesis in insects and plays an important
role in development and energy regulation. It also performs a crucial role in the synthesis of …

Folding and spinning behavior of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenee)(Lepidoptera:
Pyralidae) in different categories of rice genotypes viz., resistant, susceptible, hybrid …

A new species of the megadiverse cosmopolitan chalcidid genus Brachymeria Westwood
(Chalcididae, Brachymeriinae), B. swaminathani is described with illustrations based on …

Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) play important roles in the insect olfactory system since
they bind external odor molecules to trigger insect olfactory responses. Previous studies …

Parental RNAi (pRNAi) is a response of RNA interference in which treated insect pests
progenies showed a gene silencing phenotypes. pRNAi of CmGNA gene has been studied …

Rice stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulas) infest the plants from seedling to maturity, which is
one of the key pests that infest the rice crop at regular intervals. It is pivotal to find out …

Spilomelinae includes several pest species on various crop plants and larvae act as shoot
borers, fruit borers, leaf webbers, leaf folders and leaf rollers. In the current paper …

A chimeric cry2AX1 gene, consisting of sequences from cry2Aa and cry2Ab genes, with
insecticidal activity was employed in development of marker-free insect-resistant transgenic …