Scientific Reports - Diversity of insecticidal A1b homologs among legume seeds from Middle Eastern region

Longtemps étudiées pour leur capacité à empêcher la mort cellulaire programmée, les protéines inhibitrices de l’apoptose (IAP) révèlent aujourd’hui des fonctions insoupçonnées. Grâce à l’analyse de pl...

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Crops face significant biotic stress from animal pests, pathogens, and weeds, driving widespread use of pesticides and plasticulture. While synthetic pesticides harm the environment and human health, ...

Lors de cette balade conçue par Street Science, vous irez à la découverte de la symbiose, cette relation durable entre 2 organismes d’espèces différentes, parfois bénéfiques pour les deux, mais pas to...

Background Insects thriving on a nutritionally imbalanced diet often establish long-term relationships with intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts), which complement their nutritional needs a...

Many herbivorous insects feed on unbalanced diets and rely on bacterial endosymbionts to meet all their nutritional needs. This is the case for the pe…

Crop pests, particularly aphids, cause significant yield and economic losses. Conventional pest control using synthetic pesticides is becoming less effective due to increasing pest resistance and pose...

Aphids are major crop pests capable of colonizing the main plants grown for human consumption. They have specialized cells, the bacteriocytes, which house the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola tha...

The evolution has driven the emergence of complex arthropod-microbe symbiotic systems, whose metabolic integration is difficult to unravel. With its user-friendly interface, ArtSymbioCyc (https://arts...

The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, is an emerging model system in functional and comparative genomics, in part due to the availability of new genomic…

Avec ses 3 millimètres de long, le charançon des céréales est un insecte aussi petit que les ravages qu’il fait sont considérables sur de très nombreuses cultures. Jusqu'à présent, sa carapace le prot...