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Next-Generation Insect-Resistant Plants: RNAi-Mediated Crop Protection

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Recent progress in RNAi-mediated insect pest control is summarized, remaining challenges are highlighted, and the environmental and biosafety issues involved in the use of this technology in agriculture are discussed.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 224 citations till now.

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Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the delivery of agrochemicals: strategies towards sustainable agriculture

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe advances in the application of nanomaterials in chemical pesticides and fertilizers, which are the two earliest and most researched areas of NMs in agrochemicals.
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Improving RNAi efficiency for pest control in crop species.

TL;DR: The recent progress and successful cases of RNAi-based pest management strategy are summarized, essential implications and possibilities to improve RNAi efficiency by delivery of dsRNA through transformative and nontransformative approaches are explored, and the remaining challenges and important issues related to the application of this technology are highlighted.
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Integrated pest management of Tuta absoluta: practical implementations across different world regions

Nicolas Desneux, +48 more
TL;DR: A timely review on the up-to-date development and practical implementation of integrated pest management (IPM) programs for tomato crops across different world regions infested by T. absoluta can be found in this paper.
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Selection and Validation of Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Analysis of the Ladybird Beetle Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata

TL;DR: In this paper, the reference genes for Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata were selected and assessed for suitability under four experimental conditions, namely, developmental stage, tissue, temperature, and host plant, using RefFinder, which integrates four different analytical tools.
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RNA-Spray-Mediated Silencing of Fusarium graminearum AGO and DCL Genes Improve Barley Disease Resistance.

TL;DR: SIGS is used to compare the silencing efficiencies of computationally-designed vs. manually-designed dsRNA constructs targeting ARGONAUTE and DICER genes of Fusarium graminearum and finds that targeting key components of the fungal RNAi machinery via SIGS could protect barley leaves from Fg infection and that the manual design of dsRNAs resulted in higher gene-silence efficiencies than the tool-based design.
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Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

TL;DR: To their surprise, it was found that double-stranded RNA was substantially more effective at producing interference than was either strand individually, arguing against stochiometric interference with endogenous mRNA and suggesting that there could be a catalytic or amplification component in the interference process.
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Origins and Mechanisms of miRNAs and siRNAs

TL;DR: This work has revealed unexpected diversity in their biogenesis pathways and the regulatory mechanisms that they access, which has direct implications for fundamental biology as well as disease etiology and treatment.
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Control of coleopteran insect pests through RNA interference

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that ingestion of double-stranded (ds)RNAs supplied in an artificial diet triggers RNA interference in several coleopteran species, most notably the western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera virgifiera LeConte, suggesting that the RNAi pathway can be exploited to control insect pests via in planta expression of a dsRNA.
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Silencing a cotton bollworm P450 monooxygenase gene by plant-mediated RNAi impairs larval tolerance of gossypol

TL;DR: A cytochrome P450 gene (CYP6AE14) is identified from cotton bollworm, which permits this herbivore to tolerate otherwise inhibitory concentrations of the cotton metabolite, gossypol, and its expression correlates with larval growth when gOSSypol is included in the diet.
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RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

Olle Terenius, +78 more
TL;DR: Despite a large variation in the data, trends that are found are that RNAi is particularly successful in the family Saturniidae and in genes involved in immunity and that gene expression in epidermal tissues seems to be most difficult to silence.
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