Resistance to sap-sucking insects in modern-day agriculture

Resistance to sap-sucking insects in modern-day agriculture

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Plants and herbivores have co-evolved in their natural habitats for about 350 million years, but since the domestication of crops, plant resistance against insects has taken a different turn.With the onset of monoculture-driven modern agriculture, selective pressure on insects to overcome resistances has dramatically increased.Therefore plant breeders have resorted to high-tech tools to continuously create new insect-resistant skylight quilt pattern crops.Efforts in the past 30 years have resulted in elucidation of mechanisms of many effective plant defenses against insect kiss my axe shirt herbivores.Here, we critically appraise these efforts and - with a focus on sap-sucking insects - discuss how these findings have contributed to herbivore-resistant crops.

Moreover, in this review we try to assess where future challenges and opportunities lay ahead.Of particular importance will be a mandatory reduction in systemic pesticide usage and thus a greater reliance on alternative methods, such as improved plant genetics for plant resistance to insect herbivores.