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SUBMITTER: Kyre BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6449504 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kyre Bethany R BR Rodrigues Thais B TB Rieske Lynne K LK
Scientific reports 20190404 1
RNA interference (RNAi) is a highly specific gene-silencing mechanism that can cause rapid insect mortality when essential genes are targeted. RNAi is being developed as a tool for integrated pest management of some crop pests. Here we focus on an aggressive forest pest that kills extensive tracts of pine forests, the southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis. We sought to identify reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and validate RNAi responses in SPB by mortality and ...[more]