GIRAUDO , Maeva

Herbivorous insects have developed detoxification mechanisms to metabolically inactivate the plant toxins that they ingest, mainly based on cytochrome P450 expression. P450s are induced by and metabolize xenobiotics, and for vertebrates, the nuclear receptors that control P450s induction are well understood. We have shown in Drosophila that...

The fight against pest insects has become a major challenge nowadays to eliminate disease vectors such as malaria, dengue fever or Zika virus, and to grow healthy crops to be able to feed a constantly increasing world population. Insecticides represent one of the main solutions to this challenge but with the introduction of every new...

International audience

The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is a major polyphagous pest in agriculture and little is known on how this insect can adapt to the diverse and potentially toxic plant allelochemicals that they ingest or to insecticides. To investigate the involvement of nuclear receptors in the response of S. frugiperda to its chemical environment, we...

International audience

Spodoptera frugiperda is a polyphagous lepidopteran pest that encounters a wide range of toxic plant metabolites in its diet. The ability of this insect to adapt to its chemical environment might be explained by the action of major detoxification enzymes such as cytochrome P450s (or CYP). Forty-two sequences coding for P450s were identified and...