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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2023, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (5): 109-120.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20220093

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Growth, Development and the Resistance Gene Transcriptional Expression of Pagiophloeus tsushimanus(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Larvae after Feeding on Linalool and Eucalyptol

Jingting Wang,Shouyin Li,Zhuang Zuo,Wenxuan Xu,Dejun Hao*()   

  1. Co-Innovation Center for the Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing 210037
  • Received:2022-02-18 Online:2023-05-25 Published:2023-08-02
  • Contact: Dejun Hao E-mail:dejunhao@163.com

Abstract:

Objective: Pagiophloeus tsushimanus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a serious wood borer on Cinnamomum camphora, which has rapidly outbroken in Shanghai . Linalool and eucalyptol are important terpene metabolites in C. camphora, and also constitute the chemical defense system in C. camphora. This study aims to explore the host selection and adaptation mechanism in the interaction between P. tsushimanus and C. camphora and clarify the development adaptability and detoxification mechanism that P. tsushimanus copes with the linalool and eucalyptol, so as to analyze the potential mechanism that P. tsushimanus obligates to C. camphora. Method: The newly hatched P. tsushimanus larvae were fed with linalool and eucalyptol for 3 days using residual film method and the sensitivity of P. tsushimanus larvae to the two terpenoids was determined. Linalool (10.0 mg·g–1 and 19.7 mg·g–1) and eucalyptol (5.0 mg·g–1 and 15.2 mg·g–1) were set for the long term feeding treatment, to measure the survival curve, developmental duration, body weight and other growth and development indexes of P. tsushimanus larvae in order to evaluate the phenotypic response of P. tsushimanus to the two terpenoids. The qRT PCR technique was used to determine the relative expressions of detoxification enzyme genes (CYP450, carboxylesterase, UDP-glucuronosyltransferase, Glutathione S-transferase and ATP binding cassette transporter) and insect cuticle protein genes in the 4th instar larvae of P. tsushimanus. Result: Linalool and eucalyptol significantly inhibited growth and development of P. tsushimanus larvae under the long-term feeding of two mass fraction of the terpenoids and this inhibitory effect was correlated with the dose, that is, prolonged the developmental duration, reduced the weight and showed high mortality. Moreover, the larvae also exhibited high-frequency mortality before and after the molting period. Compared with eucalyptol, P. tsushimanus larvae showed stronger tolerance to linalool. The qRT-PCR results revealed that the expression of four cytochrome P450 genes were significantly up-regulated, four cuticle protein genes were up-regulated in P. tsushimanus treated with linalool and one UGT gene was significantly up-regulated in P. tsushimanus larvae treated with eucalyptol. Conclusion: The larvae of P. tsushimanus show different physiological adaptability to the two secondary metabolites. Meanwhile, the expression patterns of detoxification enzyme genes and cuticle protein genes in P. tsushimanus larvae are different under two secondary metabolites. The result also suggests that P. tsushimanus larvae could detoxify different plant secondary metabolites through different mechanism so as to achieve host colonization and population outbreak.

Key words: Pagiophloeus tsushimanus, host plant secondary metabolite, detoxification enzyme, cuticle protein, physiological adaptability.

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