Current Biology Publishes ECUST Mechanism of Plant Diversity Affecting Insecticidal Efficacy of Viral Insecticides

Recently, the research group of Researcher Wan Nianfeng from ECUST, in collaboration with researchers from China, the UK, and the US, elucidated the mechanism by which plant secondary metabolites mediated by plant diversity influence the insecticidal efficacy of viral insecticides by regulating insect detoxification metabolism. The study was published in the prominent international biology journal, Current Biology, a subsidiary journal of Cell, as a long-form research article titled “Plant defense metabolites influence the interaction between an insect herbivore and an entomovirus”.

The article is first authored by Assistant Researcher Wang Jinyan at the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, co-authored by former MS student Fan Nengneng and Yuan Yuan, Professor Chris Bass from the University of Exeter, UK, and Professor Evan Siemann from Rice University, USA, and co-corresponding authored by Researcher Wan Nianfeng and Researchers Ji Xiangyun and Jiang Jie at the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, Shanghai Young Talents Rising Star “Sailing Plan” Project, and the National High-Level Young Talents Program.