کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5921510 1570991 2015 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
RNA interference against gut osmoregulatory genes in phloem-feeding insects
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک دانش حشره شناسی
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RNA interference against gut osmoregulatory genes in phloem-feeding insects
چکیده انگلیسی


• Genome mining yields candidate osmoregulatory genes in plant sap-feeding insects.
• In planta RNAi against osmoregulatory genes perturbes osmotic function in insects causes elevated insect osmotic pressure.
• Combinatorial RNAi has compounding effects on insect osmotic pressure and performance.

In planta RNAi (i.e. plants engineered to synthesize active RNAi molecules) has great potential as a strategy to control insect crop pests. This study investigated the impact of RNAi against osmoregulatory genes expressed in the gut of two phloem-feeding species, the green peach aphid Myzus persicae and the potato/tomato psyllid Bactericera cockerelli. The target genes comprising candidate gut sucrase, aquaporin and sugar transporter genes were identified by mining insect genomic and transcriptomic datasets for genes orthologous to empirically-tested osmoregulatory genes of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insects feeding on plants with RNAi against the target genes exhibited elevated hemolymph osmotic pressure (a predicted effect of perturbed osmotic function) and some reduction in performance, especially offspring production in M. persicae and mortality in B. cockerelli, associated with up to 50% reduction in mean expression of the target genes. The effects were particularly pronounced for insects treated with RNAi against multiple osmoregulatory genes, i.e. combinatorial RNAi, suggesting that the partial silencing of multiple genes with related roles can yield greater functional impairment than RNAi against a single gene. These results demonstrate the potential of RNAi against osmoregulatory genes, but further advances to improve the efficacy of RNAi in phloem-feeding insects are required to achieve effective pest control.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Insect Physiology - Volume 79, August 2015, Pages 105–112