Silencing the ecdysone synthesis and signaling pathway genes disrupts nymphal development in the whitefly.

نویسندگان

  • Jun-Bo Luan
  • Murad Ghanim
  • Shu-Sheng Liu
  • Henryk Czosnek
چکیده

Sap-sucking insects are important pests in agriculture and good models to study insect biology. The role of ecdysone pathway genes in the life history of this group of insects is largely unknown likely due to a lack of efficient gene silencing methods allowing functional genetic analyses. Here, we developed a new and high throughput method to silence whitefly genes using a leaf-mediated dsRNA feeding method. We have applied this method to explore the roles of genes within the molting hormone-ecdysone synthesis and signaling pathway for the survival, reproduction and development of whiteflies. Silencing of genes in the ecdysone pathway had a limited effect on the survival and fecundity of adult whiteflies. However, gene silencing reduced survival and delayed development of the whitefly during nymphal stages. These data suggest that the silencing method developed here provides a useful tool for functional gene discovery studies of sap-sucking insects, and further indicate the potential of regulating the ecdysone pathway in whitefly control.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Insect biochemistry and molecular biology

دوره 43 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013