Crops will be harmed by fungi, pests and weeds during their growth. In the past half century,
scientists have conducted in-depth research on natural products extracted from …

The nuclear receptors (NRs) of metazoans are an ancient family of transcription factors
defined by conserved DNA-and ligand-binding domains (DBDs and LBDs, respectively) …

ABSTRACT RNA interference (RNAi) has become a widely used reverse genetic tool to
study gene function in eukaryotic organisms and is being developed as a technology for …

Phytoecdysteroids are analogues of arthropod steroid hormones found in plants, where they
deter predation by non‐adapted predators. There is potential to exploit this to develop new …

Insecticide development in recent years has been guided mostly by chemorational and
biorational design based on understanding of the physiology and ecology of insects and …

The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is native to Asia and recently invaded the USA.
RNA interference (RNAi) is a gene silencing mechanism in which the introduction of double …

What little is known about the endocrine regulation of mosquito development suggests that
models based on Lepidoptera and Drosophila may not apply. We report on basic …

In this chapter, we review five members of a novel class of chemistry, the non-steroidal
bisacylhydrazine (BAH) compounds that are true agonists of the steroidal insect moulting …

Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes the present knowledge on the ecdysteroid
receptor (EcR) structure and function with special emphasis on those aspects that are …

Insect growth is regulated by the orchestrated event of ecdysteroids and their receptor
proteins. Agonists/antagonists of ecdysteroid receptor are predicted to disrupt normal …