Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection

Baculoviruses are invertebrate-specific pathogens and baculoviral infections cause alterations in the physiology, metabolism and morphology of insects. It is important to recognize these physiological and symptomatologic changes to understand baculovirus infection cycle and biology. For this reason,...

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Main Authors: Şerife Bayram, M. Oktay Gürkan, Umut Toprak
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Published: Ankara University 2005-01-01
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description Baculoviruses are invertebrate-specific pathogens and baculoviral infections cause alterations in the physiology, metabolism and morphology of insects. It is important to recognize these physiological and symptomatologic changes to understand baculovirus infection cycle and biology. For this reason, in our study Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera: Noctuidae larvae were inoculated with the SpliNPV to doses of 3000 and 20,000 OBs for third instars and to concentrations of 106 and 3x 106 OBs/ml for neonates and the alterations due to NPV infection in larvae were then examined. Bioassays carried out with the third instar S. littoralis larvae revealed that no symptoms were detected during the first three days post-inoculation due to SpliNPV infection. Approximately, in the 4th day, infected larvae began to respond much more slowly than healthy larvae. This symptom was followed by whitening and slimming of cuticula, failure in molting, swelling of the body, diarrhoea, climbing to high places and hanging, liquefaction of the body and death. Infected neonates exhibited limited symptoms of distension and the failure of molting. The larvae died in approximately 8-8.5 days for third instars and in approximately 3-3.5 days for neonates due to baculoviral infection for the both doses and concentrations. On the other hand, different doses or concentrations did not cause an alteration in the occurence time of symptoms.To associate the NPV biology with the genes involved in baculovirus genome and understand their life cycle will improve their efficacy as biopesticides and help to the effective use of baculoviruses
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spelling doaj-art-e4200b2a7f9f46909467bc1c6cfa37c22025-08-20T03:25:11ZengAnkara UniversityJournal of Agricultural Sciences1300-75802148-92972005-01-011101657145Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral InfectionŞerife Bayram0M. Oktay Gürkan1Umut Toprak2Univ. of Ankara, Fac. of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection AnkaraUniv. of Ankara, Fac. of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection AnkaraUniv. of Ankara, Fac. of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection AnkaraBaculoviruses are invertebrate-specific pathogens and baculoviral infections cause alterations in the physiology, metabolism and morphology of insects. It is important to recognize these physiological and symptomatologic changes to understand baculovirus infection cycle and biology. For this reason, in our study Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera: Noctuidae larvae were inoculated with the SpliNPV to doses of 3000 and 20,000 OBs for third instars and to concentrations of 106 and 3x 106 OBs/ml for neonates and the alterations due to NPV infection in larvae were then examined. Bioassays carried out with the third instar S. littoralis larvae revealed that no symptoms were detected during the first three days post-inoculation due to SpliNPV infection. Approximately, in the 4th day, infected larvae began to respond much more slowly than healthy larvae. This symptom was followed by whitening and slimming of cuticula, failure in molting, swelling of the body, diarrhoea, climbing to high places and hanging, liquefaction of the body and death. Infected neonates exhibited limited symptoms of distension and the failure of molting. The larvae died in approximately 8-8.5 days for third instars and in approximately 3-3.5 days for neonates due to baculoviral infection for the both doses and concentrations. On the other hand, different doses or concentrations did not cause an alteration in the occurence time of symptoms.To associate the NPV biology with the genes involved in baculovirus genome and understand their life cycle will improve their efficacy as biopesticides and help to the effective use of baculoviruseshttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1510274spodoptera littoralisnpvbaculovirusgross pathologymorphologyspodoptera littoralisnpvbakulovirüsgenel patolojimorfoloji
spellingShingle Şerife Bayram
M. Oktay Gürkan
Umut Toprak
Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
Journal of Agricultural Sciences
spodoptera littoralis
npv
baculovirus
gross pathology
morphology
spodoptera littoralis
npv
bakulovirüs
genel patoloji
morfoloji
title Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
title_full Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
title_fullStr Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
title_full_unstemmed Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
title_short Gross Pathology of SpliNPVs and Alterations in Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Lepidoptera:Noctuidae Morphology Due to Baculoviral Infection
title_sort gross pathology of splinpvs and alterations in spodoptera littoralis boisd lepidoptera noctuidae morphology due to baculoviral infection
topic spodoptera littoralis
npv
baculovirus
gross pathology
morphology
spodoptera littoralis
npv
bakulovirüs
genel patoloji
morfoloji
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1510274
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