Specific Enriched Acinetobacter in Camellia Weevil Gut Facilitate the Degradation of Tea Saponin: Inferred from Bacterial Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses

ABSTRACT Beneficial gut bacteria can enhance herbivorous arthropod adaptation to plant secondary compounds (PSMs), and specialist herbivores provide excellent examples of this. Tea saponin (TS) of Camellia oleifera is triterpenoids toxic to seed-feeding weevil pest, Curculio chinensis (CW). Previous...

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Main Authors: Zikun Li, Suya Huang, Xinghua He, Haijie Ma, Xudong Zhou, Haiping Lin, Shouke Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02272-22