Involvement of small heat shock proteins (sHsps) in developmental stages of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda and its expression pattern under abiotic stress condition.

ABSTRACT: Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda a recent invasive pest in India is reported to cause significant damage by feeding voraciously on maize and other economic crops from tropical to temperate provinces. It is becoming an arduous challenge to control the pest as it can survive in a wide range of temperature conditions and is already said to develop resistance towards certain insecticides. The small Heat shock proteins (hereafter, sHsps) are known to play an important role in adaptation of insects under such stress conditions. Our present study involved characterization of the three sHsps genes (sHsp19.74, sHsp20.7 and sHsp19.07) which encoded proteins of about 175, 176 and 165 amino acids with a conserved α-crystalline domain. Phylogenetic analysis of deduced amino acid sequen

SUBMITTER: Samanta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105634 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature