The negative impact of the massive use of synthetic pesticides on the environment and on
human health has stimulated the search for environment-friendly practices for controlling …

Fungi are far more complex organisms than viruses or bacteria and can develop numerous
diseases in plants that cause loss of a substantial portion of the crop every year. Plants have …

BACKGROUND The peritrophic matrix (PM) is formed by a network of chitin fibrils
associated with proteins, glycoproteins and proteoglycans that lines the insect midgut. It is a …

Transgenic plants that express double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) targeting vital insect genes
have recently emerged as a valuable new tool for pest control. In this study, tobacco plants …

Abstract Background Jasmonates (JAs) are important for plants to coordinate growth,
reproduction, and defense responses. In JA signaling, jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) proteins …

Chitinases have been implicated in fungal cell wall remodeling and play a role in
exogenous chitin degradation for nutrition and competition. Due to the diversity of these …

In nature, distinct number of renewable biopolymers are available which exist as chief
starting material for various bioprocesses; chitin being one of them that is degraded by the …

Abstract Background The fruit fly Bactrocera oleae is the primary biotic stressor of cultivated
olives, causing direct and indirect damages that significantly reduce both the yield and the …

Plant diseases and insect pests are serious threat to the growth and yield of oilseed rape. In
this study, a binary vector carrying sporamin and chitinase PjChi-1 genes in tandem was …

Insect chitinases belong to family 18 of the glycoside hydrolase superfamily (GH18) and
comprise endo-splitting enzymes that retain the anomeric β-(1, 4) configuration of the …