Over evolutionary time, insect herbivores have adapted to the presence of natural toxins and
more recently to synthetic insecticides in or on the plants they consume. Biochemical …

Background Buprofezin, an insect growth regulator, has been widely used to control brown
planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, one of the most destructive pests of rice crops in …

ATP‐binding cassette (ABC) transporters are membrane‐bound proteins involved in the
movement of various substrates, including drugs and insecticides, across the lipid …

BACKGROUND The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, is one of the major pests in citrus‐
growing areas around the world. The application of insecticides is the most effective method …

The white-backed planthopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horváth), is a kind of important rice pest
in China. Chemical control is the most effective method in the field control of S. furcifera …

BACKGROUND Laboratory selection is often employed in resistance mechanism studies
because field‐derived populations commonly do not have high enough resistance for such …

BACKGROUND Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén)(Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is one of the most
important insect pests of rice, and it has been able to develop strong resistance to many …

Insect-borne diseases, such as malaria, and plant pathogens, like the tobacco mosaic virus,
are responsible for human deaths and poor crop yields in communities around the world …

Abstract The endosymbionts Wolbachia and Rickettsia have been shown to be correlated
with the insecticide resistance of mosquito and whitefly. The small brown planthopper …

The joint action and sublethal effects of methoxyfenozide and lufenuron were measured
against Spodoptera exigua. Methoxyfenozide and lufenuron exhibited optimum synergistic …