文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Shan, Shuang ¹ ; Song, Xuan ² ; Khashaveh, Adel ¹ ; Wang, Shan-Ning ⁴ ; Lu, Zi-Yun ⁵ ; Dhiloo, Khalid Hussain ⁶ ; Li, Rui-Jun ² ; Zhang, Yong-Jun ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Plant Protect, State Key Lab Biol Plant Dis & Insect Pests, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

2.Agr Univ Hebei, Coll Plant Protect, Baoding 071000, Peoples R China

3.China Agr Univ, Coll Plant Protect, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

4.Beijing Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Inst Plant & Environm Protect, Beijing 100097, Peoples R China

5.Hebei Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Plant Protect Inst, IPM Ctr Hebei Prov, Key Lab Integrated Pest Management Crops Northern, Baoding 071000, Peoples R China

6.Sindh Agr Univ, Fac Crop Protect, Dept Entomol, Tandojam 70060, Pakistan

关键词： Microplitis mediator; Lepidopteran pest; Odorant receptor; Sex pheromone; Host habitat location

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH （ 影响因子：10.7； 五年影响因子：11.4 ）

ISSN： 2090-1232

年卷期： 2023 年 43 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Introduction: The parasitoid wasp Microplitis mediator is an important natural enemy of the turnip moth Agrotis segetum and other Noctuidae pests. In our field observation, it was fortuitously discovered that sex pheromone traps used for A. segetum also attract female wasps, verified by a simulated field condition dual-choice laboratory assay. Therefore, it was hypothesized that olfactory recognition could be crucial in this process. In this regard, a female-biased odorant receptor of the wasp, MmedOR49, attracted our attention.Objectives: To unravel the significance of the female-biased MmedOR49 regulating host pheromone recognition.Methods: Expression analysis (fluorescence in situ hybridization; quantitative realtime PCR), in vitro (two-electrode voltage-clamp recordings) and in vivo (RNAi combined with behavioral assessments) functional studies, and bioinformatics (structural modeling and molecular docking) were carried out to investigate the characteristics of MmedOR49.Results: MmedOR49 expression was detected in the antennae of females by FISH. Quantification indicated that the expression level of MmedOR49 increased significantly after adult emergence. In vitro functional study revealed that MmedOR49 was specifically tuned to cis-5-decenyl acetate (Z5-10:Ac), the major sex pheromone component of A. segetum. Molecular docking showed that Z5-10:Ac strongly bound to the key amino acid residues His 80, Ile 81, and Arg 84 of MmedOR49 through hydrogen bonding. Behavioral assays indicated that female wasps were significantly attracted by Z5-10:Ac in a three-cage olfactometer. RNAi targeting further confirmed that MmedOR49 was necessary to recognize Z5-10:Ac, as female wasps lost their original behavioral responses to Z5-10:Ac after down-regulation of the MmedOR49 transcript.Conclusion: Although M. mediator is a larval endoparasitoid, female wasps have a behavioral preference for a sex pheromone component of lepidopteran hosts. In this behavior, for female M. mediator, MmedOR49 plays an important role in guiding the habitat of host insects. These data provide a potential target for enhancing natural enemy utilization and pest control.(c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).