Insect pests impose a serious threat to agricultural productivity. Initially, for pest
management, several breeding approaches were applied which have now been gradually …

Clustered regularly spaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPR) structure family forms the
acquired immune system in bacteria and archaea. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas …

Over the past 30 years, the sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a regular component
of area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programs against several major …

Brassica plants have glucosinolate (GLs)-myrosinase defense mechanisms to deter
herbivores. However, Plutella xylostella specifically feeds on Brassica vegetables. The …

Global crop yield and food security are being threatened by phytophagous insects.
Innovative methods are required to increase agricultural output while reducing reliance on …

The insect sex determination and the intimately linked dosage compensation pathways
represent a challenging evolutionary puzzle that has been solved only in Drosophila …

In insects, sex determination pathways involve three levels of master regulators: primary
signals, which determine the sex; executors, which control sex-specific differentiation of …

Simple Summary In animals, sexually dimorphic traits are ubiquitous and play vital roles in
reproduction, courtship, and environmental adaptation, especially in insects. In this study …

Lepidoptera are unusual in possessing two distinct kinds of sperm, regular nucleated
(eupyrene) sperm and anucleate (apyrene) sperm ('parasperm'). Sperm of both types are …

The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), is an economically important pest of
cruciferous crops worldwide. This pest is notorious for rapid evolution of the resistance to …