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Construction of a Hypervirulent and Specific Mycoinsecticide for Locust Control

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, December 2014
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Title
Construction of a Hypervirulent and Specific Mycoinsecticide for Locust Control
Published in
Scientific Reports, December 2014
DOI 10.1038/srep07345
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Authors

Weiguo Fang, Hsiao-Ling Lu, Glenn F. King, Raymond J. St. Leger

Abstract

Locusts and grasshoppers (acridids) are among the worst pests of crops and grasslands worldwide. Metarhizium acridum, a fungal pathogen that specifically infects acridids, has been developed as a control agent but its utility is limited by slow kill time and greater expense than chemical insecticides. We found that expression of four insect specific neurotoxins improved the efficacy of M. acridum against acridids by reducing lethal dose, time to kill and food consumption. Coinoculating recombinant strains expressing AaIT1(a sodium channel blocker) and hybrid-toxin (a blocker of both potassium and calcium channels), produced synergistic effects, including an 11.5-fold reduction in LC50, 43% reduction in LT50 and a 78% reduction in food consumption. However, specificity was retained as the recombinant strains did not cause disease in non-acridids. Our results identify a repertoire of toxins with different modes of action that improve the utility of fungi as specific control agents of insects.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Switzerland 1 2%
Unknown 63 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 21 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 8%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 24 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 February 2020.
All research outputs
#5,711,508
of 22,774,233 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#38,903
of 122,899 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#78,000
of 359,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#238
of 895 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,774,233 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
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