Project description:The transcriptional response of H. virescens larvae was analyzed after feeding on gossypol supplemented diet, a toxic secondary metabolite produced in cotton plants, to detect potential detoxification enzymes possibly involved in detoxification of gossypol by H. virescens. A one-color microarray-based gene expression analysis was performed with Cy3 labeled cRNA of gut and rest of the body of H. virescens larvae that fed on 0.32% gossypol and control diet. For each treatment and tissue four biological replicates were used.
Project description:The transcriptional response of H. virescens larvae was analyzed after feeding on gossypol supplemented diet, a toxic secondary metabolite produced in cotton plants, to detect potential detoxification enzymes possibly involved in detoxification of gossypol by H. virescens.
Project description:Gut and rest of body tissue from fifth instar larvae which fed for three days a diet containing different doses of gossypol. Transcriptional profiling comparing gut and rest of body samples for three gossypol concentrations (0%, 0.016%-hormetic dose & 0.16%-detrimental dose). Hormesis is a biphasic biological response characterized by the stimulatory effect at relatively low amounts of chemical compounds otherwise known to be detrimental at higher concentrations. A hormetic response in larval growth rates has been observed in cotton-feeding insects in response to increasing concentrations of gossypol, a toxic metabolite found in the pigment glands of some Malvaceae plants. We investigated the developmental effect of gossypol in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, an important heliothine pest species, by exposing larvae to different doses of this metabolite in their diet. In addition, we sought to determine the underlying transcriptional responses to different gossypol doses. Larval weight gain, pupal weight and larval development time were measured in feeding experiments and a hormetic response was seen for the first two characters. On the basis of net larval weight gain responses to gossypol, three treatments, that is 0%, 0.016% and 0.16% gossypol , were selected for transcript profiling in the gut and the rest of the body in a two-color double reference design microarray experiment. Two-color double reference design. Reference sample was the 0% (CT) gossypol condition (either Gut or Rest of Body) or one of two experimental conditions {0.016(T5) and 0.16%(T7)}. Biological replicates: 4 (10 individuals per replicate). 32 samples total.
Project description:Gut and rest of body tissue from fifth instar larvae which fed for three days a diet containing different doses of gossypol. Transcriptional profiling comparing gut and rest of body samples for three gossypol concentrations (0%, 0.016%-hormetic dose & 0.16%-detrimental dose). Hormesis is a biphasic biological response characterized by the stimulatory effect at relatively low amounts of chemical compounds otherwise known to be detrimental at higher concentrations. A hormetic response in larval growth rates has been observed in cotton-feeding insects in response to increasing concentrations of gossypol, a toxic metabolite found in the pigment glands of some Malvaceae plants. We investigated the developmental effect of gossypol in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, an important heliothine pest species, by exposing larvae to different doses of this metabolite in their diet. In addition, we sought to determine the underlying transcriptional responses to different gossypol doses. Larval weight gain, pupal weight and larval development time were measured in feeding experiments and a hormetic response was seen for the first two characters. On the basis of net larval weight gain responses to gossypol, three treatments, that is 0%, 0.016% and 0.16% gossypol , were selected for transcript profiling in the gut and the rest of the body in a two-color double reference design microarray experiment.