Disease relevance of Insect Control

• Therefore it is expected that the use of malathion for insect control in ricelands of Cameroon may affect the survival of freshwater snails including the intermediate hosts of bilharziasis [1].
• Resistance to the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) was combined with resistance to PLRV by expression of the cry3A insect control protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis var. tenebrionis in combination with the unmodified, full-length, viral replicase gene [2].

High impact information on Insect Control

• The heterologous expression of the S. cerevisiae EKI1 gene in Sf-9 insect cells resulted in a 165,500-fold overexpression of ethanolamine kinase activity relative to control insect cells [3].
• Rhamnose is an essential component of the insect control agent spinosad [4].
• Given its unique role in insects and its demonstrated sensitivity to dietary inhibitors, the amd gene product poses an attractive target for insect control [5].
• A method for the assessment under standard conditions of the output of dichlorvos slow-release units used for insect control [6].
• Three insecticides were selected for experimental investigation: diazinon, propetamphos (OPs) and cis-permethrin (SP), representative of the active ingredients used in sheep dip formulations, with additional uses in insect control in crops, and for domestic control of flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, lice, ticks and spiders [7].

Biological context of Insect Control

• Currently these pyrethroids including their preferentially manufactured stereoisomers are widely used in agriculture, and for public health as well as household insect control [8].

Anatomical context of Insect Control

• Since glutamate receptor blockers may be of value as selective insect control agents, numerous derivatives of PhTX were synthesized and tested for their potencies as inhibitors of insect skeletal muscle glutamate receptors [9].
• The importance of understanding the details of yolk protein uptake by oocytes lies in its potential for exploitation in novel insect control strategies, and the molecular characterization of the proteins involved has made the development of such strategies a realistic possibility [10].

Associations of Insect Control with chemical compounds

• These results suggest that Sarcophaga midgut contains a morphologically and functionally distinct segment that transports small peptides, and that employment of neurotoxic polypeptides for insect control may be feasible [11].
• METHODS: Ten farmers were monitored using dermal patches, gloves, and air sampling media during normal activities of applying phosmet to pigs for insect control [12].
• Steroid metabolism as a target for insect control [13].
• The present data show that alpha epoC and probably alpha iminoC are mechanism-based suicide inhibitors of the enzyme catalyzing cholesterol 7,8-dehydrogenation and may be the prototypes of a new class of selective insect control agents [14].
• Compound 1 is a more active insecticide than rotenone (LD(50) = 3.68 microg/adult) and has potential as a novel insect control agent [15].

Gene context of Insect Control

• The differences in responses of insect DHODH and the enzyme from other species may allow the design of new agents that will selectively control insect growth, due to pyrimidine nucleotide limitation [16].
• The major implications for insect control using proteinase inhibitor-based strategies are discussed [17].
• Most recently, we have been developing chitinase for use as a biopesticide to control insect and also fungal pests [18].
• The importance of metabolism is illustrated by examples from the major classes of insect control chemicals, namely organophosphorus and carbamate insecticides, DDT, pyrethroids and insect growth regulators [19].

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