Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins expressed in GM crops provide effective protection against
chewing-type insects but fail to control damage by sucking pests, leading to a search for a …

The insect pest Spodoptera litura is considered a major threat to many economically
important food and commercial crops. The present study establishes the toxic effects of …

Lectins are proteins of non-immune origin that specifically interact with carbohydrates,
known to play important roles in the defense system of plants. In this study, in order to study …

Yield losses of different crops due to the attack of various classes of insects are a worldwide
problem. Sucking type homopteran pests causing damage to many crop species are not …

The effects of the Rhizoctonia solani lectin (RSA) on the growth, development and survival of
an economically important caterpillar in agriculture and horticulture, the cotton leafworm …

Cotton is an important crop that is continuously cultivated around the world. However, its
production has decreased in recent times due to wide ranging insects and also current …

Background Despite evidence suggesting a role in plant defence, the use of plant lectins in
crop protection has been hindered by their low and species-specific insecticidal activity …

Whole insect assays where Rhizoctonia solani agglutinin (RSA) was fed to larval stages of
the cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis and the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum …

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) and green leaf hopper (Amrasca biguttula biguttula) are the most
devastating crop pests worldwide. Their ability to cause direct damage by feeding on host …

Vigna radiata lectins are promising candidate molecules for the protection against sap
sucking insect pests like Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach). Molecular mechanism of toxicity and …