Ferrisia virgata (striped mealybug)

Watson, G

doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.23981

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“…The phloem-feeding of host plants by this insect pest has been documented to inflict significant economic losses. P. solenopsis are generally found near to the terminal stem, leaves, and fruits of plants, however due to their cryptic lifestyle, which entails hiding in crevices, beneath the bark, leaf whorls, and on the roots where pesticides cannot reach them, they are challenging to control chemically ( Watson, 2016 ). P. solenopsis have waxy substance around their body that repels water and inhibits water-based pesticide treatments from penetrating their bodies ( Hemalatha et al, 2018 ).…”

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Bioefficacy of engineered Beauveria bassiana with scorpion neurotoxin, LqqIT1 against cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis and cowpea aphid, Aphis craccivora

Rajput,

Suroshe,

Yadav

et al. 2023

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Cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley) and cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora (Koch) are notorious polyphagous, hemipteran sap sucking insect pests. A recombinant toxin gene ‘LqqIT1’ from the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus quinquestriatus (Ehrenberg) was cloned in the pAL1 fungal expression vector and then expressed in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Balasmo) using genetic modification techniques. The genetically transformed B. bassiana strain (BbLqqIT1-3) and its un-transformed parent strain (Bb-C) were screened to infect the third instar nymphs of P. solenopsis and first instar nymph of A. craccivora through leaf treatment and topical application (spray) method at 1 * 107 spores per ml concentration. The recombinant strain BbLqqIT1-3 was highly pathogenic against A. craccivora but non pathogenic to P. solenopsis. BbLqqIT1-3 induced 72 and 43.33% mortality in A. craccivora nymphs 96 h after leaf treatment and topical application, respectively. The nymphs of A. craccivora infected with BbLqqIT1-3 displayed classical neurotoxic symptoms such as sluggishness, solublize and liquification of the body. Crude soluble toxin protein, BbLqqIT1a-CSE and Bb-WT-CSE was extracted from the BbLqqIT1-3 and Bb-C, respectively using ammonium sulphate precipitation method, and their oral toxicity was analyzed at 5 µg/ml concentration. The survival of the studied insects was negatively affected by the crude soluble toxin extracts. The LT50 values of BbLqqIT1a-CSE against P. solenopsis and A. craccivora were 22.18 and 17.69 h, respectively. Exposure to crude soluble toxin extracts also accounted for the imbalance of ionic concentrations in the hemolymph of treated insects such as hyperpotassemia (3.53–8.18 meq/ml) in the P. solenopsis and hypopotassemia (7.52–0.47 meq/ml) in A. craccivora. The transformed fungus BbLqqIT1-3 strain exhibited promising results in invitro study.

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