Control of coleopteran insect pests through RNA interference

By J. Baum, T. Bogaert, W. Clinton, G. Heck, P. Feldmann, Oliver M. Ilagan, Scott Johnson, G. Plaetinck, T. Munyikwa, Michael J. Pleau and 2 more. Nature Biotechnology, 2007

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Insect resistance to Bt crops: evidence versus theory (2008, background): “More generally, options for pest control with transgenic crops have been broadened by the development of corn with Bt toxins that kill corn rootworms and may be further expanded by gene-silencing technology and modified Bt toxins designed to kill resistant pest”
Recent advances in RNA interference research in insects: Implications for future insect pest management strategies (2013, background): “rootworm Diabrotica virgifera LeConte (Baum et al., 2007), the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Mao et al.”
RNA interference in Lepidoptera: an overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design. (2011, methodology): “armigera (Baum et al., 2007; Gordon and Waterhouse, 2007; Mao et al., 2007).”
Field-Evolved Resistance to Bt Maize by Western Corn Rootworm (2011, background): “However, these recent cases suggest a need to develop more integrated management solutions for pests targeted by Bt crops [44,45].”
Literature review of baseline information on RNAi to support the environmental risk assessment of RNAi‐based GM plants (2018, background): “Mao et al. (2007), working with cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa zea), and Baum et al. (2007), working with a range of insects that includes western corn rootworm (WCR, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera), southern corn rootworm (SCR, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) and Colorado potato beetle (CPB,…”
Perspectives for nano-biotechnology enabled protection and nutrition of plants. (2011, positive): “…knockdown was reported in several insect orders, including Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Blattodea, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera (Araujo et al., 2006; Baum et al., 2007; Huvenne and Smagghe, 2010;Mao et al., 2007; Timmons and Fire, 1998; Tomoyasu and Denell, 2004; Turner et al., 2006).”
Mechanisms of dsRNA uptake in insects and potential of RNAi for pest control: a review. (2010, background): “virgifera virgifera compared to the Colorado potato beetle (Baum et al., 2007).”
The Parasitic Plant Genome Project: New Tools for Understanding the Biology of Orobanche and Striga (2012, background): “RNAi-based resistance expressed in a host has since been demonstrated against several classes of pests including root-knot nematodes (Huang et al. 2006), western corn rootworm (Baum et al. 2007), and fungal pathogens (Tinoco et al. 2010; Yin et al. 2011).”
Chapter Five – Progress Towards RNAi-Mediated Insect Pest Management (2014, background): “Like other insect species, neither Tribolium nor Diabrotica contains a recognizable RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that could amplify the production of dsRNAs for a systemic response (Baum et al., 2007; Tomoyasu et al., 2008).”
Behaviour and ecology of the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte) (2009, background): “Larval control has also been achieved via RNA interference in transgenic maize expressing double-stranded WCR RNAs ( Baum et al. , 2007 ).”
Environmentally sustainable pest control options for Drosophila suzukii (2018, background): “…several economically important pest insects including the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera), Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) and several species of mosquitoes (Baum et al., 2007; Singh, Wong, Ryan, & Whyard, 2013; Zhu, Xu, Palli, Ferguson, & Palli, 2011).”
Insecticide resistance and implications for future aphid management in Australian grains and pastures: a review (2008, background): “In the future, aphid resistance could be achieved by engineering plants to produce RNA interference constructs that effectively silence these genes and prevent successful feeding (Baum et al. 2007; Mao et al. 2007).”
RNAi-Based Insecticidal Crops: Potential Effects on Nontarget Species (2013, background): “For example, hundreds of arthropod species reside within cornfields, and these dynamic communities change over the season and vary by region (Bhatti et al. 2005, Dively 2005, Lundgren and Fergen 2010).”
Ingested double-stranded RNAs can act as species-specific insecticides. (2009, background): “DsRNA targeting the gene encoding the A subunit of vATPase had previously been shown to kill Western corn rootworm larvae in feeding bioassays (Baum et al., 2007), and here, we observed that dsRNA targeting the E-subunit of vATPase can be selectively designed and fed to a broader range of insects,…”