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 sap-sucking homopteran insects, commonly known as aphids and leafhoppers are
responsible for a huge amount of lost productivity of mustard, chickpea, cabbage, rice and …

Plant lectins have received a lot of attention because of their insecticidal properties. When
orally administered in artificial diet or in transgenic plants, lectins provoke a wide range of …

Hemipteran group of sap sucking insect pests cause worldwide crop destruction. The role of
mannose specific monocot lectins have recently been worked out in hemipteran pest …

Lectins are an important group of proteins which are spread in all kingdoms of life. Their
most lighted characteristic is associated to their specific carbohydrate binding, although …

During the long course of interaction and co-evolution with herbivorous insects, plants have
evolved a broad range of defense mechanisms to counteract insect attack (Chen 2008) …

Bruchid beetle larvae cause major losses in grain legume crops throughout the world. Some
bruchid species, such as the cowpea weevil (Callosobruchus maculatus) and the Mexican …

The homopteran insect pests sometimes cause serious damage to many crop plants.
Unfortunately this particular class of insects can not be controlled by Bacillus thuringiensis …

Lectins are proteins or glycoproteins of non-immune origin with atleast one non-catalytic
domain that bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrates (Peumans and Van Damme …

In recent years encoding insecticidal Lectins have been suggested as one of the promising
methods against insect pests and have been engineered successfully into a variety of crops …