Code
01W03316
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Animal biology
- General biology
- Microbiology
- Plant biology
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural plant production
- Horticultural production
- Veterinary medicine
Keywords
RNAi
Stinkbugs
soybean
Project description
The present proposal aims to drastically reduce the use of chemical insecticides and provide more intelligent and more sustainable solutions (i.e., use of the parasitoid Telenomus podisi and silencing specific genes of E. heros – via RNAi) to an important agricultural and economic problem in Brazil, which are Euschistus heros stinkbugs on the Brazilian soybean fields.