Use of a pollen-based diet to expose the ladybird beetle Propylea japonica to insecticidal proteins.

A rape seed pollen-based diet was developed and found to be suitable for use in a dietary exposure assay for Propylea japonica. Using the diet, we established and validated a dietary exposure assay by using the protease inhibitor E-64 as positive control. Dose-dependent responses were documented for...

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Main Authors: Xiaojie Zhang, Yunhe Li, Jörg Romeis, Xinming Yin, Kongming Wu, Yufa Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24409328/pdf/?tool=EBI