Caffeinated fruit flies help identify potential genes affecting insecticide resistance
A group of scientist at the university of Kansas devised a technique to be able to potentials locate and label the resistant gene found in many insecticide resistant insects. Caffeine was used as the primary locator of for the resistant gene. Because caffeine has a chemically similar structure to its surrogate, xenobiotics, it was employed to help the scientist track the location of the gene on Drosophila melanogaster.
The scientist doggedly test 1700 lines of fruit flies and their response to caffeine. they were able to determine 10 trait loci of genes containing either the resistance or susceptibility to caffeine and identified CYP12d1-d CYP12d1-p as the culprits responsible for being the enabling enzymes that detoxify toxic compounds. These genes come from a family of P450 compounds. The scientists subsequently found that those two gens alone, make up for 10 percent of the fruit flies variation in resistance to caffeine. This approach can hopefully be employed to identify many genes that are associated with resistance to any drug.
This new information can help increase the economic yield for crop and at the same time make it cheaper for people to buy certain plants. Farmers will be able to produce more crop that are resistant to insects and other pest. Also the ability to locate genes is becoming more clearer with experiments like these.
Main Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327101417.htm
Related Article: http://abstracts.genetics-gsa.org/cgi-bin/dros14s/showdetail.pl?absno=14531586
This new information can help increase the economic yield for crop and at the same time make it cheaper for people to buy certain plants. Farmers will be able to produce more crop that are resistant to insects and other pest. Also the ability to locate genes is becoming more clearer with experiments like these.
Main Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327101417.htm
Related Article: http://abstracts.genetics-gsa.org/cgi-bin/dros14s/showdetail.pl?absno=14531586
Discovering able to find and examine the genes related to insects developing a resistance towards insecticide can greatly help the agriculture of the country. It would lead to a greater amount of crops being harvested by the farmers.
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