Plants and herbivores have been co-evolving for thousands of years, and as a result, plants
have defence mechanisms that offer protection against many herbivores such as …

Plant‐derived protease inhibitors (PIs) are a promising defensin for crop improvement and
insect pest management. Although agronomist made significant efforts in utilizing PIs for …

Tobacco plants were transformed with a cDNA clone of chymotrypsin/trypsin-specific potato
proteinase inhibitor II (PI2) under the control of a constitutive promoter. Although …

Annually, the cost of insect pest control in agriculture crosses billions of dollars around the
world. Until recently, broad-spectrum synthetic pesticides were considered as the most …

Crops resistant to insect attack offer an alternative strategy of pest control to a total reliance
upon chemical pesticides. Transgenic plant technology can be a useful tool in producing …

Potato plants were treated with gaseous methyl jasmonate (MJ) to obtain leaves with high
induced levels of cysteine and aspartic proteinase inhibitors. Induced papain inhibitor …

As more transgenic crop plants become commercialised, there is an increasing need for
information on their impacts on honey bees and bumblebees. Direct effects on bees may …

Plant protease inhibitors are diverse in number and in specificity towards various proteolytic
enzymes. This book focuses on the isolation, structure, characterization, physiochemical and …

Plant serine proteinase inhibitors (Pls) have the potential to restrict the growth and/or
development of herbivorous insects. However, there are limitations to the efficacy of these …

Extracts from the digestive tract of final instar larvae of Spodoptera litura, reared on artificial
diet, contained trypsin-like (BApNA-hydrolysing) activity with a pH optimum of 10.5, an …