abstract water is a main factor in production of crops. optimizing the usage of water is essential especially in iran which is a dry and semi-dry country. investigation on the effect of different irrigation treatments on chilo suppressalis walker (lep.: crambidae), as the most destructive rice pest, can be an efficient strategy in optimizing usage of water in integrated crop management (icm). i...

abstract in order to evaluate the effect of beauveria bassiana fungus on overwintering larvae populations of rice stem borer( chilo suppressalis) was studied during 2007-2008 in rice reaserch institute, rasht. this study was carried out based on factorial experiment with rcbd in 4 replications with three factors as follow: (a1) concentration of 1× 108 conidia/ml. , concentration of 1× 106 conid...

Apoptosis is executed through the activity of the caspases that are aspartyl-specific proteases. In this study, we isolated the caspase gene (Cscaspase-1) of Chilo suppressalis (one of the leading pests responsible for destruction of rice crops). It possesses the open reading frame (ORF) of 295 amino acids including prodomain, large subunit and small subunits, and two cleavage sites (Asp23 and ...

In insects, neuropeptides play important roles in the regulation of multiple physiological processes by binding to their corresponding receptors, which are primarily G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The genes encoding neuropeptides and their associated GPCRs in the rice stem borer Chilo suppressalis were identified by a transcriptomic analysis and were used to identify potential targets for...

Roles of salivary proteases in the extra-oral digestion of the predatory bug, Andrallus spinidens Fabricius (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) were studied by using 2% azocasein as a general substrate and specific protease substrates, as well as synthetic and endogenous inhibitors. It was found that salivary glands of A. spinidens have two anterior, two lateral, and two posterior lobes. Azocasein was us...

Heat shock protein 60 is an important chaperonin. In this paper, hsp60 of the stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), was cloned by RT-PCR and rapid amplification of cDNA end (RACE) reactions. The full length cDNA of hsp6 degrees Consisted of 2142 bp, with an ORF of 1719 bp, encoding 572 amino acid residues, with a 5'UTR of 158 bp and a 3'UTR of 265 bp. Cluster analysi...

Novel plant or animal derived insecticides are in the process of development following resistance to the contemporary organochlorine and organophosphate compounds. Cartap hydrochloride is one such novel analogue of nereistoxin and is commercially known as ‘padan’. It was first manufactured in Japan in 1966 and has been used in India since 1988. It was first isolated in Japan in 1967 from marine...

WRKY proteins, which belong to a large family of plant-specific transcription factors, play important roles in plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores by regulating defense-related signaling pathways. Recently, a rice WRKY transcription factor OsWRKY53 has been reported to function as a negative feedback modulator of OsMPK3/OsMPK6 and thereby to control the size of the investment a rice...