Liliana LaiUniversidad Pública de Navarra | UPNA · Instituto de Agrobiotecnología
Liliana Lai
Master of Arts
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Introduction
Development of highly effective microbial-based insecticides with extended host range and advances towards their integration in IPM.
My research activity is mainly focused on the study of Bacillus thuringensis toxic factors for the control of mosquitoes.
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Aedes albopictus is a species of mosquito, originally from Southeast Asia, that belongs to the Culicidae family and the Dipteran insect order. The distribution of this vector has rapidly changed over the past decade, making most of the temperate territories in the world vulnerable to important human vector-borne diseases such as dengue, yellow feve...
Bacillus thuringiensis ser. israelensis (Bti) has been widely used as microbial larvicide for the control of many species of mosquitoes and blackflies. The larvicidal activity of Bti resides in Cry and Cyt δ-endotoxins present in the parasporal crystal of this pathogen. The insecticidal activity of the crystal is higher than the activities of the i...
