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

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...

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Main Authors: Sonam Rajput, Sachin S. Suroshe, Purnmasi Ram Yadav, Anoop Kumar, Gurvinder Kaur Saini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2023-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/16030.pdf