Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP1094176
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Cell-free immune reactions and suppression. Insects pests and insect vectors of diseases are managed by toxic substances, but insects have a cunning ability to persist. How pesticide-tolerant insect pests recognise and inactivate chemical and biological toxins is poorly understood. While vertebrates with a closed circulatory system use coagulation reactions mainly for wound-healing, invertebrates employ cell-free aggregation reactions for the sequestration and inactivation of potentially damaging objects and substances. We use insect plasma to dissect recognition and inactivation of damaging objects and substances with the aim to understand tolerance and its inhibition to design novel strategies in delaying tolerance to pesticides in insect pests.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2010
End Date: 12-2013
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Invertebrate Biology | Comparative Physiology | Zoology | Plant Protection (Pests, Diseases And Weeds) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of pests and exotic species | Biological sciences | Control of pests and exotic species
