Kun Zhang, Mengli Chen, Hao Wang, Wenbo Duan, Qiang Wang, Fen Li, Denghui Deng, Elizabeth Bandason, Shaoying Wu
BACKGROUND: Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) is a serious worldwide agricultural pest, especially for Bt cotton in China. Pyrethroids, neonicotinoids and organophosphates are the most effective insecticides to control piercing and sucking insects, including A. lucorum. The voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav ) is major target site of pyrethroids. Extensive alternative splicing and RNA editing, two major post-transcriptional mechanisms, contribute to generate different functional sodium channel variants...
June 2020: Pest Management Science