Insect immunity effect

Some of the reasons for the return are as follows (i) new breeding grounds for the insects that are vectors for some pathogens (ii) antigenic drift in viruses and bacteria (iii) resistance to antibiotics (iv) a decrease in the effectiveness of the immune system due to the presence of other more chronic infections, poor nutrition or stress (v) expansion of air travel. 

Targeted screening approaches specifically zone in upon plants more likely to contain bioactive molecules in the first place. For example, plants which seem to be immune from predation may well be producing substances toxic to, for example, insects. These in turn are also likely to have some effect on human cells. 

Typical physical and chemical properties of commercial modacrylic fibers have been published (125). Modacrylics are not affected by bleaches in the concentrations used for spot and stain removal (31). They are immune to attack by rot, mildew, bacteria, and insects such as moths and carpet beetles (125). Fungi may grow in dirt in an unlaundered Dynel fabric, but washing out the dirt removes the mildew with no effect on the fabric. 

Finally, the current work provides bacteria-sensitive lethal mutations that point out pest control possibilities. Since bsl mutants die when injected with bacteria, they focus our attention directly on the immune steps at which the insect is particularly vulnerable. In future work we need to identify the cellular and molecular processes that are blocked by these mutations. If we could learn to artificially interfere with an immune step that is blocked by a bsl, then an effective insecticide might be developed. Because of the demonstrated similarities in the antibacterial immune systems of Drosophila melanoqaster and fruit fly pests, it is hoped that such methods would lead to crop protection. 

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