Baculoviruses (Baculoviridae) are occluded DNA viruses that are lethal pathogens of the
larval stages of some lepidopterans, mosquitoes, and sawflies (phytophagous …

The use of insects as food for humans or as feed for animals is an alternative for the
increasing high demand for meat and has various environmental and social advantages …

We developed a novel antiviral strategy by combining transposon-based transgenesis and
the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated …

Baculoviruses are virulent pathogens that infect a wide range of insects. They initiate
infections via specific interactions between the structural proteins on the envelopes of …

The prevalence of sublethal infections of Spodoptera exigua multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus
(SeMNPV) was quantified in natural populations of S. exigua in Almería, Spain, during 2006 …

Recently, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) based
genomic editing technologies have armed researchers with powerful new tools to biological …

Sublethal infections by Spodoptera exigua multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) are
common in field populations of the beet armyworm (S. exigua, Hübner) in the Almerian …

The term 'silk'makes almost all of us think first of lustrous and shimmery fabrics. This chapter
discusses in brief the history of the evolution of silk from China and how silks spread to the …

A laboratory culture of Spodoptera exigua was examined to assess covert (latent or
persistent) baculovirus infections and spontaneous disease outbreaks. Two …

Grasserie, a polyorganotrophic disease caused by Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus
(BmNPV), accounts for lethal infection to fifth instar silkworm larvae. It was found that …