Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

Aphids (Aphididae) are major agricultural pests that cause significant yield losses of crop
plants each year by inflicting damage both through the direct effects of feeding and by …

The relationship between aphids and their host plants is thought to be functionally
analogous to plant− pathogen interactions. Although virulence effector proteins that mediate …

Aphids respond to environmental changes by developing alternative phenotypes with
differing reproductive modes. Parthenogenetic reproduction occurs in spring and summer …

The peach–potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), is one of the most important pests of
economic crops. It damages the plant directly by consuming nutrients and water and …

Aphis glycines Matsumura, the soybean aphid, first arrived in North America in 2000 and
has since become the most important insect pest of domestic soybean, causing significant …

Developmental biology is one of the fastest growing and fascinating research fields in life
sciences. Among the wide range of embryonic development, a fundamental difference exists …

The relative resistance of a plant to pathogens is determined by preformed, constitutive
defenses, and the quality and diversity of the induced defenses deployed upon attack …

Salivary secretions play critical roles in aphid–host plant interactions and are responsible for
damage associated with aphid feeding. The objectives of this study were to evaluate aspects …

RNA interference (RNAi) has been widely used in functional genomics of insects and
received intensive attention in the development of RNAi-based plants for insect control …