supported by Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant KYCX22_0290.
The ability of cyborg locusts to achieve directional movement in complex outdoor environments is critical for search and rescue missions.Currently,there is a lack of research on motion control for cyborg locusts in ou...
This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China no.2022YFD1400500;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.31930012 and 32070497);Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(no.2021079).
Fat body metabolism plays crucial roles in each aspect of insect life traits.Although neuropeptides have been documented to be one of the major neuroendocrinal regulators involved in fat body metabolism,the detailed r...
financially supported by the Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province,China(Grant No.242102111179,222102210116,222102320080);the Science and Technology Opening Cooperation Project of Henan,China(Grant No.172106000056);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31772501).
This study investigated the influence of different linearly polarized spectrum lights on locusts polartactic response characteristics linearly polarized vector sensitivity mode and polartactic response by using linear...
The authors acknowledge that this work was financially supported by the Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province,China(Grant No.222102210116,212102110229);the special project of Xinxiang Science and Technology of Henan Province,China(Grant No.21ZD003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31772501).
Locust and grasshopper plagues pose a serious threat to crop production in many areas worldwide.However,there is a lack of effective,quick-acting methods to control such outbreaks.Methods exploiting the phototactic re...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31702064);Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(Grant No.C2018201135);Youth Foundation of Hebei Educational Committee(Grant No.QN2019117);The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents(Grant No.ChineseIPM1709);Natural Science Interdisciplinary Research Program of Hebei University(Grant No.DXK201910);Advanced Talents Incubation Program of Hebei University(Grant No.050001-521000981003);“Giant Plan”of Hebei Province(Grant No.070006-702800116049,070006-702800117003);Post-graduate’s Innovation Fund Project of Hebei Province(Grant No.CXZZSS2019004).
With the wide application of genome editing in insects, a simple and efficient identification method is urgently needed to meet the increasing demand for mutation detection. Here, taking migratory locusts as a model s...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070502,31730074,32072419 and 31501905).
The mutant efficiency and hatching ratio are two key factors that significantly affect the construction of genome-modified mutant insects.In the construction of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated dsLmRNase2^(–/–)mutant locusts,we...
The authors acknowledge that this work was financially supported by the Scientific and technological project in Henan Province(Grant No.212102110139);the China Agricultural Research System(Grant No.CARS-03);the Henan Engineering Research Center of Biological Pesticide&Fertilizer Development and Synergistic Application.
To reveal the nature of locusts’visual reaction when stimulated by light,and to clarify the regulation characteristics of locusts’phototactic visual physiology and obtain good spectral light features for locusts’ph...
They arrive in their millions like a dangerous cloud-darkening the sky and bringing fear,anger and despair to East Africa.Voracious desert locusts have,in the past several weeks,gone on an eating rampage in countries ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50775412);the 2012 Public Welfare Industry(Agriculture)Special Funds for Scientific Research Projects(Grant No.201203025).
To provide theoretical support for study of locust phototactic vision nature,the locust phototactic physiology and visual spectrum effects were investigated by stimulating the visual system using light from an AvaSpec...
Based on the census and analysis on locust occurrence in Binzhou from 1991 to 2010, the locust species that ever occurred in Binzhou were identified. A total of 18 locust species were found. They belong to six familie...