Mechanisms, applications, and challenges of insect RNA interference

KY Zhu, SR Palli - Annual review of entomology, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
The RNA interference (RNAi) triggered by short/small interfering RNA (siRNA) was
discovered in nematodes and found to function in most living organisms. RNAi has been …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-based technologies for insect control in plant production

S Liu, M Jaouannet, DMA Dempsey, J Imani… - Biotechnology …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which small RNA (sRNA) molecules
sequence-specifically silence gene expression at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional …

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

International Aphid Genomics Consortium - PLoS biology, 2010‏ - journals.plos.org
Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant
interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme …

Molecular mechanisms underlying host plant specificity in aphids

PY Shih, A Sugio, JC Simon - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Aphids are serious pests of agricultural and ornamental plants and important model systems
for hemipteran–plant interactions. The long evolutionary history of aphids with their host …

Silencing of aphid genes by dsRNA feeding from plants

M Pitino, AD Coleman, ME Maffei, CJ Ridout… - PloS one, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
Background RNA interference (RNAi) is a valuable reverse genetics tool to study gene
function in various organisms, including hemipteran insects such as aphids. Previous work …

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

NM Gerardo, B Altincicek, C Anselme, H Atamian… - Genome biology, 2010‏ - Springer
Background Recent genomic analyses of arthropod defense mechanisms suggest
conservation of key elements underlying responses to pathogens, parasites and stresses. At …

RNAi for insect control: current perspective and future challenges

R Katoch, A Sethi, N Thakur, LL Murdock - Applied biochemistry and …, 2013‏ - Springer
The research on the RNA interference (RNAi) for the control of insect pests has made
significant growth in recent years. The availability of the genomic sequences of insects has …

Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont

S Shigenobu, ACC Wilson - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2011‏ - Springer
The symbiosis of the pea aphid Acyrthosphion pisum with the bacterium Buchnera
aphidicola APS represents the best-studied insect obligate symbiosis. Here we present a …

Molecular evolutionary trends and feeding ecology diversification in the Hemiptera, anchored by the milkweed bug genome

KA Panfilio, IM Vargas Jentzsch, JB Benoit… - Genome biology, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract Background The Hemiptera (aphids, cicadas, and true bugs) are a key insect order,
with high diversity for feeding ecology and excellent experimental tractability for molecular …

Phylogenetic origin and diversification of RNAi pathway genes in insects

D Dowling, T Pauli, A Donath… - Genome biology and …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
RNA interference (RNAi) refers to the set of molecular processes found in eukaryotic
organisms in which small RNA molecules mediate the silencing or down-regulation of target …