IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v5y2014i1d10.1038_ncomms4353.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A plant factory for moth pheromone production

Author

Listed:
  • Bao-Jian Ding

    (Lund University)

  • Per Hofvander

    (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

  • Hong-Lei Wang

    (Lund University)

  • Timothy P. Durrett

    (Kansas State University)

  • Sten Stymne

    (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

  • Christer Löfstedt

    (Lund University)

Abstract

Moths depend on pheromone communication for mate finding and synthetic pheromones are used for monitoring or disruption of pheromone communication in pest insects. Here we produce moth sex pheromone, using Nicotiana benthamiana as a plant factory, by transient expression of up to four genes coding for consecutive biosynthetic steps. We specifically produce multicomponent sex pheromones for two species. The fatty alcohol fractions from the genetically modified plants are acetylated to mimic the respective sex pheromones of the small ermine moths Yponomeuta evonymella and Y. padella. These mixtures are very efficient and specific for trapping of male moths, matching the activity of conventionally produced pheromones. Our long-term vision is to design tailor-made production of any moth pheromone component in genetically modified plants. Such semisynthetic preparation of sex pheromones is a novel and cost-effective way of producing moderate to large quantities of pheromones with high purity and a minimum of hazardous waste.

Suggested Citation

  • Bao-Jian Ding & Per Hofvander & Hong-Lei Wang & Timothy P. Durrett & Sten Stymne & Christer Löfstedt, 2014. "A plant factory for moth pheromone production," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-7, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4353
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4353
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms4353
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/ncomms4353?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hong-Lei Wang & Bao-Jian Ding & Jian-Qing Dai & Tara J. Nazarenus & Rafael Borges & Agenor Mafra-Neto & Edgar B. Cahoon & Per Hofvander & Sten Stymne & Christer Löfstedt, 2022. "Insect pest management with sex pheromone precursors from engineered oilseed plants," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 5(11), pages 981-990, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4353. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.