M Kalsi, SR Palli - Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Insecticide resistance is a global problem that presents an ongoing challenge to control insects that destroy crops, trees and transmit diseases. Dramatic progress has been made …
While RNAi is often heralded as a promising new strategy for insect pest control, a major obstacle that still remains is the efficient delivery of dsRNA molecules within the cells of the …
L Swevers, K Ioannidis, M Kolovou, A Zografidis… - Journal of insect …, 2016 - Elsevier
RNAi is broadly used as a technique for specific gene silencing in insects but few studies have investigated the factors that can affect its efficiency. Viral infections have the potential …
The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) has become an important platform for the expression of recombinant proteins and is especially useful for the production of large …
L Wang, K Cappelle, D Santos, JV Broeck… - Journal of insect …, 2019 - Elsevier
Next generation sequencing has revealed the widespread occurrence of persistent virus infections in insects but little is known regarding to what extent persistent infections can …
L Swevers, M Feng, F Ren, J Sun - Archives of insect …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have shown a large increase in studies of infection of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) with Cypovirus 1 (previously designated as B. mori cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus) …
D Santos, VM Christopoulou… - Archives of Insect …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery that infections of viruses are pervasive among insects has considerable potential for future applications, such as new strategies for pest control through the …
Y Zhao, A Kolliopoulou, F Ren, Q Lu… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2019 - Springer
In insects, RNAi is considered the major antiviral immune defense pathway. DsRNAs produced during viral infection are processed by Dicer enzymes into small RNAs that …