Welfare Research Program of Zhejiang Province(LQ21C140006);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32372516 and 32230086);Key Projects of Ningbo Natural Science Foundation(2023j015)for the support.
In insects,melanism,a fundamental pigmentation process,is of significant importance in evolutionary biology due to its complex genetic foundation.We investigated the role of the RNA-binding gene Musashi(msi)in melanis...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31901872);the Key Science and Technology Program of Henan Province(232102111032);the Young Backbone Teachers Project of Henan University of Science and Technology(2023).
Take-off behavior is crucial to the overall success of insect migration.Although most high-altitude migratory flights commence with mass take-offs around dusk and dawn,little is known about nighttime take-off behavior...
supported by:the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants 32370527,for PH,and 32260671,for MH);the Scientific Research Foundation of Guizhou University of China(grant 2017-33,for MH);the Program of Talent Cultivation of Guizhou University(grant(2019)05,for PH);the Science and Technology Support of Guizhou province(grant QKH(2017)2956,for MH);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China(111 Program,D20023);the Frontiers Science Center for Asymmetric Synthesis and Medicinal Molecules,Department of Education,Guizhou Province(Qianjiaohe KY number(2020)004).
Although CRISPR/Cas9 has been widely used in insect gene editing,the need for the microinjection of preblastoderm embryos can preclude the technique being used in insect species with eggs that are small,have hard shel...
funded by grants from the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou,China(202002020029);the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China(2019B020217003);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFD02003);the National Key Technology Support Program of China(201303019-02)。
The rice planthopper,Sogatella furcifera,is a piercing-sucking insect pest of rice,Oryza sativa.It is responsible for significant crop yield losses,and has developed moderate to high resistance to several commonly use...
supported by the National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32260671 for MH and No.31860617 for PH and MH);the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Project of China(Grant No.QKH-J[2020]1 Y077 for PH);the Scien-tific Research Foundation of Guizhou University of China(2017-33 for MH);the Program of talent culti-vation of Guizhou University([2019]05 for PH);the.Science and Technology Support of Guizhou province(QKH[2017]2956 for MH);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China(111 Pro-gram,D20023);the Frontiers Science Center for Asymmetric Synthesis and Medicinal Molecules,Depart-ment of Education,Guizhou Province[Qianjiaohe KY number(2020)004].
The discovery of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat(CRISPR)system has driven gene manipulation technology to a new era with applications reported in organisms that span the tree of life.The u...
supported by Key Projects of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LZ21C140002);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32102186 and 31972261);Development and Demonstration of Comprehensive Technology for Prevention and Control of Major Diseases and Pests(2021YFD1401100).
The forkhead box O(FoxO)protein is the main transcriptional effector downstream of the insulin/insulin-like signaling pathway and regulates many developmental and physiological processes.Holometabolous insects with lo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170475,31750002)。
The forewing base structure of a representative species from 13 families of Fulgoroidea were examined.Results show that these families differ mainly from the characters of various sclerites,the presence or absence of ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31630063);National Key Research and Development Program(2016YFD0100600,2016YFD0100900);the National Program on Research&Development of Transgenic Plants(2016ZX08009-003-001).
Interactions and co-evolution between plants and herbivorous insects are critically important in agriculture.Brown planthopper(BPH)is the most severe insect of rice,and the biotypes adapt to feed on different rice gen...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31772162);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.ZDBS-LYSM027).
Planthoppers are the most notorious rice pests,because they transmit various rice viruses in a persistent-propagative manner.Protein–protein interactions(PPIs)between virus and vector are crucial for virus transmissi...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFD0100600);the National Program on Research and Development of Transgenic Plants(2014ZX0800911B);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31160276 and 31560423);the Guangxi Innovation-Driven Development Special Funding Project(Guike-AA17204070);the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice(KF201905)。
Rice planthoppers,including brown planthopper(BPH)and white-backed planthopper(WBPH),are the most destructive pests in Asian rice cultivation regions.Planthopper resistance genes that have been mapped and characterize...